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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Platelets in liver transplantation: Friend or foe?
Apart from the well-known role of blood platelets in hemostasis, there is emerging evidence that platelets have various nonhemostatic properties that play a critical role in inflammation, angiogenesis, tissue repair and regeneration, and ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury. All these processes ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Hepatopulmonary syndrome: Use of extracorporeal life support for life-threatening hypoxia following liver transplantation.
Hepatopulmonary syndrome is an uncommon complication of nonacute liver failure, and in rare cases, hypoxia may be the presenting sign of liver dysfunction. The condition, once thought to be a contraindication, is improved ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Reliability of a new ultrasonic cardiac output monitor in recipients of living donor liver transplantation.
The ultrasonic cardiac output monitor (USCOM) is a new Doppler device for noninvasive hemodynamic monitoring. The aim of this prospective nonrandomized study was to test the feasibility, perioperative reliability, and clinical ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Comparison of the USCOM ultrasound cardiac output monitor with pulmonary artery catheter thermodilution in patients undergoing liver transplantation.
The aim of the study was to compare the standard technique of cardiac output determination by pulmonary artery catheter thermodilution (PAC-TD) with a noninvasive ultrasound Doppler monitor (USCOM ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Inner filter effects and their interferences in the interpretation of culture fluorescence.
Inner filter effects and their interferences in the measurement and interpretation of culture fluorescence are discussed. An approximate light intensity model for a typical open-ended culture fluorescence measuring device is developed for calculating the ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Quantification of the degree of acclimation of a mixed culture to an industrial landfill leachate.
Quantification of the degree of acclimation of a mixed culture is demonstrated. An industrial landfill leachate was used as a model mixed substrate. The biodegradable fraction, the specific rate of substrate ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Oxygen transfer to mycelial fermentation broths in an airlift fermentor.
Oxygen transfer rates and gas holdups were measured in mycelial fermentation broths of Chaetomium cellulolyticum and Neurospora sitophila, each cultured in a 1300-L pilot-plant-scale airlift fermentor. These cultures exhibited highly non-Newtonian flow behavior coupled with a ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Characteristics of immobilized yeast reactors producing ethanol from glucose.
The evolutionary performance of up flow reactors are affected by the cell immobilization matrix and the matrix particle size distribution. Higher productivities are obtained using a low-density brick with a particle size of ca. 400-1400 mum. A ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Modeling the kinetics of immobilized glucose oxidase.
Determination of glucose concentrations in fluids frequently requires the application of immobilized glucose oxidase. An accurate description of the immobilized enzyme kinetics is critical for such applications. In this study, the overall rate of reaction of immobilized glucose oxidase ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Single-step unimolecular non-first-order enzyme deactivation kinetics.
A two-parameter deactivation model is proposed to describe the kinetics of activity stabilization for some enzymes. The single-step unimolecular mechanism exhibits non-first-order deactivation kinetics since the final enzyme state, E(1) is not completely inactivated. The usefulness of the model is ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Noninferior periodic operation of the metabolite producing biological reactor.
The optimal periodic operation of the biological reactor in which the metabolites belonging to Type I or II in Gaden\'s classification are produced was investigated from the viewpoint of the multiobjective programming problem. In addition to the ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Continuous cellulase production by immobilized Sporotrichum cellulophilum and continuous saccharification of bagasse.
Immobilized Sporotrichum cellulophilum with nonwoven materials was cultured continuously by a rotating-disk fermentor to supply cellulase into the saccharification system. The filter paper activity (5.0) was retained after 696 h under conditions of 250 ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Effects of double-filtration plasmapheresis combined with interferon plus ribavirin for recurrent hepatitis C after living donor liver transplantation.
Response rates to interferon and ribavirin treatment for recipients with recurrent hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection are suboptimal, particularly for those with genotype 1b and high viral load. ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Noninvasive monitoring of cerebral perfusion pressure in patients with acute liver failure using transcranial doppler ultrasonography.
Elevated intracranial pressure (ICP) leads to loss of cerebral perfusion, cerebral herniation, and irreversible brain damage in patients with acute liver failure (ALF). Conventional techniques for monitoring ICP can be ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
The prevalence of Parkinson\'s disease in rural Tanzania.
The prevalence of Parkinson\'s disease (PD) varies worldwide from 7 to 450 per 100,000, and appears low in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) but few data exist. We conducted a prevalence study of PD in rural Tanzania. A door-to-door study ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Gender-related changes in increase of dopaminergic neurons in the olfactory bulb of Parkinson\'s disease patients.
Gender differences in dopaminergic related neurodegenerative diseases have hardly been studied until now. It is generally accepted that more men than women suffer from Parkinson\'s disease. One of the most prevalent ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Cancer stem cells in the blood: Possible therapeutic implications.
Increasing evidence has revealed the importance of cancer stem cells (CSCs) in carcinogenesis. Although liver CSCs have been identified in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cell lines, no data have shown the presence of these cells in human settings. ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Interface hepatitis is associated with a high incidence of late graft fibrosis in a group of tightly monitored pediatric orthotopic liver transplantation patients.
Chronic graft dysfunction, manifesting with elevated liver enzymes and histological features of interface hepatitis (IH), is being increasingly recognized as a long-term problem ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
A novel mutation of the epsilon-sarcoglycan gene in a Chinese family with myoclonus-dystonia syndrome.
In a Chinese myoclonus-dystonia syndrome (MDS) family presented with a phenotype including a typical MDS, cervical dystonia, and writer\'s cramp, genetic analyses revealed a novel 662 + 1insG heterozygous mutation in exon ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Rivastigmine versus placebo in hyperhomocysteinemic Parkinson\'s disease dementia patients.
The effects of rivastigmine versus placebo in Parkinson\'s disease dementia (PDD) patients with elevated or normal/low plasma homocysteine were determined. In this prospective analysis of a 24-week, randomly assigned, placebo-controlled study of rivastigmine in PDD, subpopulations comprised ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Overcoming the limitations of living donor and split liver transplantation: A proposal for adult recipients (the best of the east in the west).
A shortage of organs for liver transplantation has encouraged the development of advanced surgical strategies to increase the donor pool. We present a ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Expanded indication criteria of living donor liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma at one large-volume center.
The currently available indication criteria of living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) have high prognostic power but insufficient discriminatory power. On the basis of single-center results ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Nifedipine versus carvedilol in the treatment of de novo arterial hypertension after liver transplantation: Results of a controlled clinical trial.
The aim of this study was to compare nifedipine and carvedilol in the treatment of de novo arterial hypertension after orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). The study ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Prevalence and risk factors for delayed adrenal insufficiency after liver transplantation.
Liver transplantation (LT) recipients are at risk for early and delayed adrenal insufficiency for multiple reasons. Although early adrenal insufficiency is known to occur in a high proportion of recipients maintained on steroid-free immunosuppressive regimens, ...
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Graft size, donor age, and patient status are the indicators of early graft function after living donor liver transplantation.
No reliable model for predicting early graft function and patient survival after living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) exists. The aim of this study was to establish a ...
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