In a highly interesting, intricate, and novel paper in this issue of Blood, Fung and colleagues have extended their previous pioneering studies and now reveal that molecules such as ATP can promote platelet activation through the P2X1 receptor.

An approach is proposed that allows the determination of material models from uniaxial tests and histostructural data including fiber orientation of the tissue. A combination of neo-Hookean and Fung-type strain-energy functions is utilized, and inequality constraints imposed on the constitutive parameters are derived providing strict local convexity and preferred fiber orientations. It is shown...

It is a great fortune to have Professor Y.C. Fung as the Honorary Editor for the journal “Mechanics and Chemistry of Biosystems”. It is also my great fortune that Professor Satya Atluri (Editor-in-Chief) has asked me to write a tribute to Dr. Fung and his contributions to mechanics of biosystems or biomechanics. In casting off the first volume of the journal, this dedication is most appropriate...

The non-uniform partitioning or phase separation of red blood cells (RBCs) at a diverging bifurcation of a microvascular network is responsible for RBC heterogeneity within the network. The mechanisms controlling RBC heterogeneity are not yet fully understood and there is a need to improve the basic understanding of the phase separation phenomenon. In this context, in vitro experiments can fill...

هدف: پژوهش حاضر با هدف بررسی مقایسه اثربخشی گروه درمانی شناختی – رفتاری و ذهن ­آگاهی مبتنی بر شناخت کاهش رفتارهای پرخطر در معتادان ترک افیونی صورت گرفت. روش: روش این شبه آزمایشی طرح پیش آزمون پس همراه کنترل است. جامعه­ی آماری شامل کلیه افراد وابسته به مواد مراجعه کننده مرکز اعتیاد شبکه بهداشت درمان شهرستان سرپل ذهاب نیمه اول سال 1396 بود، نمونه­ گیری دسترس تعداد 36 نفر تشخیص وابستگی اساس معیاره...