Our previous study revealed that newborns had a high level of absorption of human milk a-lactalbumin. [1] It decreased during the first month in the whole and nonallergic infants showed a 4fold reduction of gut permeability at 25-30 days of life. But patients with early allergic symptoms have increased gut permeability in comparison to non-allergic infants. In this study we examined gut permeab...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Disruption of the blood-brain barrier has been proposed to be important in vascular cognitive impairment. Increased cerebrospinal fluid albumin and contrast-enhanced MRI provide supporting evidence, but quantification of the blood-brain barrier permeability in patients with vascular cognitive impairment is lacking. Therefore, we acquired dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI to q...

Most studies concerning effects of neural stimuli on the cerebral circulation have focused on changes in cerebral blood flow (CBF). The purpose of this study was to examine effects of sympathetic nerves on permeability of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) to albumin, using a quantitative method, and to relate changes in blood flow to changes in permeability of the BBB. Permeability of the BBB was e...

Re-expansion of a collapsed lung increases the microvascular permeability and causes re-expansion pulmonary edema. Neutrophils and their products have been implicated in the development of this phenomenon. The small GTP-binding proteins Rho and its target Rho-kinase (ROCK) regulate endothelial permeability, though their roles in re-expansion pulmonary edema remain unclear. We studied the contri...

Reexpansion of a collapsed lung increases the microvascular permeability and causes reexpansion pulmonary edema. Neutrophils and their products have been implicated in the development of this phenomenon. The small GTP-binding proteins Rho and its target Rho-kinase (ROCK) regulate endothelial permeability, although their roles in reexpansion pulmonary edema remain unclear. We studied the contrib...

A technique of determination of complex permittivity and permeability of ferrimagnetic nanopowders using S-parameter measurements in rectangular waveguide and results of its study are presented in this paper. The permittivity and permeability of the ferrimagnetic nanopowders are determined by the novel technique in which magnitudes of S-parameters are used only. Use of the technique allows to s...

Permeability tests are widely used to investigate the pathogenesis of various gastrointestinal diseases including coeliac disease, infectious diarrhoea, and inflammatory bowel disease. In Crohn's disease they are used as activity parameters by some investigators. Lack of standardisation, however, makes it very difficult to compare data reported in different studies. The aim of this study was to...

The design of unit cell metamaterial can tailor the permittivity and permeability. negative refractive index was achieved while real part permeability simultaneously or ? r ? i + < 0 conditions were satisfied, where , are permittivity, imaginary permeability, respectively. Currently, based on paper is a fascinating issue. Additional, used as dielectric due to its eco-friendly spacer. critical r...

We frequently study processes that alter microvascular permeability in the heart. Myocardial microvascular permeability has been estimated by determining the filtration independent reflection coefficient for beta-lipoprotein (sigma beta-LIPO). This technique requires the measurement of myocardial lymph flow rate and the lymph-to-plasma protein concentration ratio. Unfortunately, it is a nonsurv...

Cigarette smoking is associated with various cutaneous disorders with defective permeability. Yet, whether cigarette smoking influences epidermal permeability barrier function is largely unknown. Here, we measured skin biophysical properties, including permeability barrier homeostasis, stratum corneum (SC) integrity, SC hydration, skin surface pH, and skin melanin/erythema index, in cigarette s...