OBJECTIVE To assess flow dynamics after total cavopulmonary connection (TCPC). DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Aarhus University Hospital. PATIENTS Seven patients (mean age 9 (4-18) years) who had previously undergone a lateral tunnel TCPC mean 2 (0. 3-5) years earlier. INTERVENTIONS Pressure recordings (cardiac catheterisation), flow volume, and temporal changes of flow in the la...

cats play crucial roles in the epidemiology of toxoplasmosis. in the present study, a total of 198companion cats of different ages were examined for serum antibodies against toxoplasma gondii byimmunochromatography assay and for oocyst presence in faeces by microscopic examination (flotationmethod) and immunochromatography assay. the cats were selected between referred cases to the veterinary h...

Leptospirosis is an infectious disease caused by the spirochete bacteria Leptospira spp. and is commonly found throughout the world. Diagnosis of leptospirosis performed by culture and microscopic agglutination tests is laborious and time-consuming. Therefore, we aimed to develop a novel immunochromatography (ICG)-based method for detecting Leptospira antigen in the urine of patients and animal...

Successful disease management requires a rapid and sensitive diagnosis method that can recognize early infection even before the manifestation of its clinical signs. The only available field diagnostic tests for foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) are lateral flow devices, commonly known as chromatographic strips. Low sensitivity and inability to detect FMD virus (FMDV) at the serotype level are limit...

BACKGROUND Human serum albumin (HSA) is the most abundant plasma protein and plays key a role in metabolism. The variation in albumin concentration provides valuable information related to metabolic diseases and diagnostic application. METHODS We constructed two assay systems to quantify the albumin concentration. The immunoassay used a fluorescence (FL) dye to detect albumin in samples and e...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to assess risk factors for HCV acquisition and prevalence of anti-HCV in the general population of Lithuania. MATERIAL/METHODS The study enrolled 1528 randomly selected adults from the 5 biggest cities of Lithuania and its rural regions. Screening for anti-HCV was performed by analysis of peripheral capillary blood with lateral flow immunochromatography an...

The Continuum Neural Field Theory implements competition within topologically organized neural networks with lateral inhibitory connections. However, due to the polynomial complexity of matrix-based implementations, updating dense representations of the activity becomes computationally intractable when an adaptive resolution or an arbitrary number of input dimensions is required. This paper pro...