INTRODUCTION Acute lung injury (ALI) can result from various insults to the pulmonary tissue. Experimental and clinical data suggest that spontaneous breathing (SB) during pressure-controlled ventilation (PCV) in ALI results in better lung aeration and improved oxygenation. Our objective was to evaluate whether the addition of SB has different effects in two different models of ALI. METHODS F...

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1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Shohadaye Tajrish Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2. Department of Emergency Medicine, Besat Hospital, AJA University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3. Department of Emergency Medicine, Imam Hossein Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4. Trauma Research Center, Shiraz University of ...

Wei Liang,* Naresh Satyan, Firooz Aflatouni, Amnon Yariv, Anthony Kewitsch, George Rakuljic, and Hossein Hashemi Department of Applied Physics and Department of Electrical Engineering, MC 128-95, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA Telaris Inc., 2118 Wilshire Boulevard, #238, Santa Monica, California 90403, USA Department of Electrical Engineering–Electrophysics,...

Broad research interests and related applications: My research is in the area of stochastic systems, computational methods for sensing, estimation, and control problems, with a focus on robotic systems. In real-world systems, uncertainty (both in the system model and sensory readings) is omnipresent. A few of the vast set of applications for this research include (i) Motion planning for mobile ...

Acute lung injury (ALI) remains one of major causes of morbidity and mortality in intensive care medicine. The lack of efficient pharmacological interventions contributes to the high mortality rate of ALI. Losartan, an antagonist of angiotensin II (Ang II) type 1 receptor, is a potent therapeutic drug for ALI. Recent reports suggest that losartan inhibits the maturation of dendritic cells (DCs)...

Changhong Li, Itzhak Nissim, Pan Chen, Carol Buettger, Habiba Najafi, Yevgeny Daikhin, Ilana Nissim, Heather W. Collins, Marc Yudkoff, Charles A. Stanley and Franz M. Matschinsky † Division of Endocrinology, ‡ Division of Child Development and Pediatric Rehabilitation, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and § Diabetes Center and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine...

This a rare case of adenoid hypertrophy in a 23 years old Saudi non-smoker female, who presented with severe bilateral nasal obstruction, mouth breathing, anterior nasal discharge, snoring for the last 7 months. The nasopharynx was examined by flexible nasopharyngoscope, which showed a big mass occupying the nasopharynx. Under general anesthesia, adenoidectomy was performed. Immediately after t...

Green incentives are included in the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009” (ARRA). It is, however, unclear how these government incentives can be carried out most effectively according to market-based principles and if they can serve as a catalyst for an accelerated green transformation and an ultimate solution to the current U.S. and global economic and financial crisis. The article...