THE shortage of liver allografts continues to be a major limiting factor for the exploitation of liver transplantation. Although satisfactory function of allografts obtained from non-heart beating donors has been reported in kidneys I and livers,2.3 hepatic allografts have been procured almost exclusively from heart -beating donors. 4 •5 The purpose of this study was to determine the safety of ...

BACKGROUND Wife beating is the most common and widespread form of intimate partner violence in Ethiopia. It results in countless severe health, socio-economic and psychological problems and has contributed to the violation of human rights including the liberty of women to enjoy conjugal life. The main purpose of this study is to assess the levels and patterns of wife beating refusal and its ass...

  Objective(s): This study aimed to find out whether the chick cardiomyocyte micromass (MM) system could be employed to predict the teratogenecity of common environmental factors. Different multivitamins and over the counter drugs were used in this study.   Materials and Methods: White Leghorn 5-day-old embryo hearts were dissected and trypsinized to produce a cardiomyocyte cell suspension in D...

Gill lateral cells of Crassostrea virginica are innervated by the branchial nerve, which contains serotonergic and dopaminergic fibers that regulate cilia beating rate. Terminal release of serotonin or dopamine results in an increase or decrease, respectively, of cilia beating rate in lateral gill cells. In this study we used the voltage sensitive fluorescent probe DiBAC4(3) to quantify changes...

BACKGROUND The functionality of a cardiomyocyte is primarily measured by analyzing the electrophysiological properties of the cell. The analysis of the beating behavior of single cardiomyocytes, especially ones derived from stem cells, is challenging but well warranted. In this study, a video-based method that is non-invasive and label-free is introduced and applied for the study of single huma...

Adriamycin (ADM) inhibited the beating of cultured mouse embryo myocardial cells doseand time-dependently and subsequently lysed the cells. Fifty percent inhibition of beating cell number was observed when cultures were exposed to 430-520 ƒÊm ADM for 0.5 h, 70-100 ƒÊm ADM for 4 h and 3.5 ƒÊm for 36 h. When cultures were exposed to 3.5 ƒÊm 3H-ADM, the radioactivity in the cells reached almost th...

OBJECTIVE To clarify the position of on-pump beating coronary artery bypass (CAB) and to define preoperative indicators of intentional conversion to the procedure in the era of advancement of off-pump CAB (OPCAB), we assessed on-pump beating CAB performed after the introduction of OPCAB. SUBJECTS AND METHODS We assessed 130 patients who underwent single CAB [117 (90%) with OPCAB and 13 (10%) ...