Differential interference contrast (DIC) microscopy is the preferred imaging mode for studying live unstained cells and embryos. This is mainly attributed to the optical sectioning capability which makes DIC suitable for three-dimensional microscopy. However, DIC images are not convenient for standard computerized image interpretation. We present here a processing algorithm that converts DIC im...

Automated image restoration in microscopy, especially in Differential Interference Contrast (DIC) imaging modality, has attracted increasing attention since it greatly facilitates living cell analysis. Previous work is able to restore the nuclei of living cells, but it is very challenging to reconstruct the unnoticeable cytoplasm details in DIC images. In this paper, we propose to extract the t...

River water-quality studies rarely measure dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) routinely, and there is a gap in our knowledge of the contributions of DIC to aquatic carbon fluxes and cycling processes. Here, we present the THINCARB model (THermodynamic modelling of INorganic CARBon), which uses widely-measured determinands (pH, alkalinity and temperature) to calculate DIC concentrations, speciatio...

BACKGROUND Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is characterized by platelet and neutrophil activation. Platelets are the major source of circulating vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). Endostatin, an anti-angiogenic factor, is a fragment of collagen that is released from the extracellular matrix via the active cleavage of neutrophil elastase, thereby increasing the circulating l...

Plasma levels of thrombin activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor (TAFI) and total plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) and tissue type plasminogen activator (tPA)/PAI-1 complex in patients with disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) to examine the relationship between hypofibrinolysis and the pathogenesis with DIC. We examined 39 patients with DIC, 23 with pre-DIC, 181 without DIC and 17...

The effects of diclofenac (Dic), an acetic acid derivative-type nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, were examined on the function of transient receptor potential (TRP) melastatin (TRPM) 3 (TRPM3) in human embryonic kidney 293 cell-line (HEK293) cells with recombinant human TRPM3 isoforms (TRPM31325, TRPM3-3, TRPM3-9, and TRPM3-S) and in a neuroblastoma cell line human neuroblastoma IMR-32 cell...

A case is reported in which a high fertilization rate was achieved by conventional in-vitro fertilization (IVF), using spermatozoa from an oligozoospermic man carrying a microdeletion of the long arm of the Y chromosome. The patient presented with idiopathic infertility of 10 years duration; the fertility status of his wife was completely normal. After IVF, five out of eight oocytes retrieved s...

Although it is widely accepted that uterine artery embolization (UAE) is an effective therapeutic strategy for postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), no consensus has been reached regarding the efficacy of UAE in patients with PPH with disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). This single-center retrospective cohort study included patients treated with UAE using NBCA for PPH between 2010 and 2015. Th...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is a syndrome characterized by systemic intravascular activation of coagulation leading to the widespread deposition of fibrin in the circulation. Therefore, the determination of soluble fibrin is crucial for the diagnosis of DIC. Thrombus precursor protein (TpP) levels can be determined as a measure of soluble polymers, whi...