BACKGROUND Platelet deficiency, impaired platelet function, or both increase the risk of bleeding complications. We assessed platelet count and function during and after paediatric cardiac surgery. Secondary aims included the effect of modified ultrafiltration, identification of factors associated with platelet dysfunction, and to assess associations between platelet function and transfusion re...

Although bulk changes in red blood cell concentration between vessels have been well characterised, local distributions are generally overlooked. Red blood cells aggregate, deform and migrate within vessels, forming heterogeneous distributions which have considerable effect on local haemodynamics. The present study reports data on the local distribution of human red blood cells in a sequentiall...

With the rapid development of applications for wireless sensor networks, efficient data aggregation methods are becoming increasingly emphasized. Many researchers have studied the problem of reporting data with minimum energy cost when data is allowed to be aggregated many times. However, some aggregation functions used to aggregate multiple data into one packet are unrepeatable; that is, every...

Comparative animal studies showed the wide variation of whole blood and plasma viscosity, and erythrocyte aggregation among mammalian species. Whole blood viscosity and red blood cell aggregation is influenced by red cell fluidity. To evaluate differences in erythrocyte deformability in mammals, three species were investigated, whose erythrocytes have a different aggregation property: horse, as...

Wireless sensor networks are energy constrained networks. Energy consumption in these networks can be reduced by processing the raw data at individual nodes through the application of suitable aggregation technique so that there is minimum amount of data that need to be transmitted towards the sink. The data aggregation functions that are applied should adhere to correctness, and should be comp...

protein aggregation is a serious problem for both biotechnology and cell biology. diseases such as prion misfolding, alzheimer’s, and other amyloidosis are phenomena for which protein aggregation in our living cells is of considerable relevance. human lysozyme has been shown to form amyloid fibrils in individuals suffering from nonneuropathic systemic amyloidosis, all of which have point mutati...

Kinetics of optical tweezers (OT)-induced spontaneous aggregation and disaggregation of red blood cells (RBCs) were studied at the level of cell doublets to assess RBC interaction mechanics. Measurements were performed under in vitro conditions in plasma and fibrinogen and fibrinogen + albumin solutions. The RBC spontaneous aggregation kinetics was found to exhibit different behavior depending ...