Objective- In this study, the general anatomical features of the digestive tube and the transit time of the digestive tube of the Zarudni’s spur-thighed tortoises were examined by contrast radiology. Design - Experimental study. Animals - 4 adult female Zarudni’s Spur-thighed Tortoises (Testudo graeca zarudnyi). Procedures- At a temperature of 25-27°c a set of dorsoventral rad...

The objective of the present study was to validate the transit-time technique for long-term measurements of iliac and renal blood flow in rats. Flow measured with ultrasonic probes was confirmed ex vivo using excised arteries perfused at varying flow rates. An implanted 1-mm probe reproduced with accuracy different patterns of flow relative to pressure in freely moving rats and accurately quant...

Simultaneous tagged red cell and tagged plasma albumin concentration-time curves were obtained from the renal vein without recirculation, following rapid injection of the indicators into a renal artery. The mean transit time of the red cells was consistently faster than that of the plasma albumin, but the washout downslopes of the indicators was found to be identical. This is interpreted as ind...

BACKGROUND This study used CT (computed tomography) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to identify correlations between perfusion parameters for squamous cell lung carcinoma and tumor angiogenesis in a rabbit model of VX2 lung cancer. METHODS VX2 tumors were implanted in the lungs of 35 New Zealand White rabbits. CT and MRI perfusion scanning were performed on days 14, 17, 21, 25, and 28 af...

In recent years, Pulse Transit Time (PTT) based non-invasive continuous blood pressure monitoring systems have been investigated extensively. But the most relevant studies did not pay attention to the safety requirement of the system. In this paper a method is proposed to model the safety-related system for continuous noninvasive blood pressure monitoring. The hardware, software and communicati...

Determination of normal gastric emptying time and small intestinal transit time are useful in detecting gastrointestinal motility disorders and partial obstructions of the pylorus or small intestine. This study was conducted to evaluate iodixanol as a contrast agent in the gastrointestinal tract in New Zealand White rabbit. Twelve clinically healthy adult rabbits were prepared and kept for two ...

objective(s): nanosilver is one of the most widely used nanomaterials due to its strong antimicrobial activity. thus, because of increasing potential for exposure of human to nanosilver, there is an increasing concern about possible side effects of these nanoparticles. in this study, we tested the potential dermal toxicity of nanosilver bandage on serum chemical biomarkers in mice.  materials a...

F ROM studies in dogs of the relationship between urine flow and appearance time in the bladder urine of various substances injected into the blood stream, Morales and his collaborators (I) suggested that “renal dead space increases almost in proportion to urine flow.” The calculations of Bojesen (2) suggest that proportionality also exists between the volume of the renal pelvis and urine flow....