103 Results Found

Background: The calculated plasma volume status (cPVS) was validated as a surrogate of intravascular filling. The aim of this study is to assess the cPVS in relation to sublingual perfusion and organ injury. Methods: Pre- and postoperative cPVS were...

Background: Calculated plasma volume status (PVS) reflects volume overload based on the deviation of the estimated plasma volume (ePV) from the ideal plasma volume (iPV). Calculated PVS is associated with prognosis in the context of heart failure. Th...

Background: Patients with cirrhosis often develop hyperdynamic circulation with increased cardiac output, heart rate, and redistribution of the circulating volume with expanded plasma volume (PV). PV determination is part of the evaluation of patient...

Since risk assessment prior to cardiac surgery is based on proven but partly unsatisfactory scores, the need for novel tools in preoperative risk assessment taking into account cardiac decompensation is obvious. Even subclinical chronic heart failure...

Ti matrix composite with a polylaminate structure was successfully fabricated via spark plasma sintering (SPS) process. A temperature gradient field (TGF) was obtained during the sintering to form functionally graded material (FGM) in a vacuum under...

A new type of microwave plasma source is presented in which plasma at atmospheric pressure is generated inside a quartz rectangular flat box placed in a stripline supplied by a 2.45 GHz coaxial line. The plasma has a sheet shape and is designed for s...

To evaluate the effectiveness of photodynamic therapy occurring in the interstitial space of the myocardium, we estimated the interstitial concentration of talaporfin sodium in the canine myocardium by constructing a three-compartment pharmacokinetic...

Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) causes, besides the primary brain injury, a secondary brain injury (SBI), which is induced, amongst other things, by oxidative stress (OS) and inflammation, determining the patient’s outcome. This study aims...

Production of a plasma that has a large degree of ionization (DOI), volume, and spatial and temporal uniformities is a challenge for the improvement of the performance of plasma-based vapor deposition processes. As a potential candidate for the disch...

Background: Pulmonary congestion is quantified by a remote dielectric sensing (ReDS^TM) system, while systemic congestion is estimated by calculated plasma volume. The type of clinical patient profile as defined by the ReDS system and calculated plasm...

Double-filtration plasmapheresis (DFPP) is a plasma-exchange modality that allows selective clearance of high-molecular-weight proteins, potentially minimizing albumin loss and the need for volume replacement. Reports concerning DFPP use in dogs are...

A computer simulation of the dynamics of an optical discharge produced in the volume of a transparent dielectric (fused silica) by a focused femtosecond laser pulse was carried out taking into account the possibility of developing small-scale ionizat...

The aim of the presented study was to compare changes in acid-base balance during high-intensity exercise preceded and not preceded by a warm-up that ended with breathing using additional respiratory dead space volume (ARDSv). The study involved 24 c...

The surface and volume discharge enhancement phenomena and streamer propagation direction control in catalytic pores are significant for the plasma catalytic degradation of pollutants. In this work, we use a two-dimensional particle-in-cell with Mont...

This work deals with the study of changes in the dislocation structure and quantitative characteristics, as well as morphological components, of 0.34Cr-1Ni-Mo-Fe steel before and after plasma electrolytic hardening. According to the electron microsco...

Neutral beam injection is supposed to be the main source of high-energy particles, driving non-inductive current and generating primary neutrons in fusion neutron sources design based on tokamaks. Numerical simulation of high-energy particles’...

Orthogonal reheating double-pulse laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) was applied to the elemental analysis of CdTe thin film samples. Films were grown through nanosecond pulsed laser ablation over silicon and glass substrates. The analysis w...

Line-shape analysis is one of the most important tools for diagnostics of both laboratory and space plasmas. Its reliable implementation requires sufficiently accurate calculations, which imply the use of analytic methods and computer codes of varyin...

Background/Objectives: Ropivacaine is primarily metabolized by the liver. High doses of ropivacaine, combined with altered pharmacokinetics due to hepatectomy, raise concerns about potential drug toxicity. We investigated the impact of LMH (laparosco...

Dietary nitrate (NO₃⁻) supplementation is known to enhance nitric oxide (NO) activity and acts as a vasodilator. In this randomized crossover study, we investigated the effect of inorganic NO₃⁻ supplementation on the changes in calf venou...

Mathematical modelling of heating and current drive as well as yields and distributions of fusion products in a magnetically confined plasma subject to neutral beam injection requires, in turn, modelling of distributions of fast ions, which is a comp...

A sensitive and accurate high performance liquid chromatography with ultraviolet/visible light detection (HPLC-UV/VIS) method for the quantification of 2,6-bis-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzylidene)-cyclohexanone (BHMC) in rat plasma was developed and vali...

In this work, we analyse the influence of the parameters of a mathematical model, previously proposed by the authors, for reproducing atheroma plaque in arteries. The model uses Navier–Stokes equations to calculate the blood flow along the lume...

Triglyceride (TG) and atherogenic index of plasma (AIP) have been acknowledged to be risk factors for vascular insults, but their impacts on the brain system remain elusive. To fill in some gaps, we investigated associations of TG and AIP with brain...

(1) Background: Ultrashort high-energy laser pulses may cause interaction mechanisms, including photodisruption and plasma-induced ablation in the medium. It is not always easy to distinguish between these two processes, as both interaction mechanism...

Background and objective: Previously, a mini volume loading test (mVLT) detected signs of dehydration in healthy volunteers after an overnight fast. Our objective was to investigate whether mVLT could indicate preoperative dehydration in patients aft...

Background and objective: A mini volume loading test (mVLT) evaluating hemodilution during step-wise crystalloid infusion has established that the arterio-capillary plasma dilution difference is inversely correlated to the body hydration level of sub...

The aim of this study was to determine the pharmacokinetics of carprofen following intravenous (IV), intramuscular (IM) and oral routes to rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) broodstock at temperatures of 10 ± 1.5 °C. In this study, thirty-six health...

Over the course of hemodialysis, fluid and protein are restituted from the tissue compartment to the circulation compartment through the endothelia. Our previous model analysis on fluid and protein transport during hemodialysis is expanded to account...

Beetroot juice is a food high in nitrate and is associated with cardiometabolic health benefits and enhanced exercise performance through the production of nitric oxide in the nitrate–nitrite–nitric oxide pathway. Since various food compo...

We previously reported that sodium–glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors exert sustained fluid homeostatic actions through compensatory increases in osmotic diuresis-induced vasopressin secretion and fluid intake. However, SGLT2 inhibitors...

Pre-sowing treatment of seeds by plasma can improve seed vigor and promote seed germination and growth. To solve the problems of low processing volume and uneven treatment in plasma seed treatment devices, according to the process scheme of medium-bl...

Background: Studies have demonstrated that resveratrol exerts several pharmacological effects. However, the pharmacokinetic parameters are not completely established. Objectives: This study describes the plasma pharmacokinetics and tissue distributio...

In many parts of the world, ethanol is a widely consumed substance that displays its effect in the brain, the target organ for desired, but also negative impact. In a previous study, the ethanol concentrations were analyzed in different regions of th...

Wood-plastic composite (WPC) based on a polylactic acid (PLA) matrix is a promising material since it is biobased, degradable, sustainable, and 3D printable. However, due to its coloring, visible layers after 3D-printing, and small build volumes of t...

A single-dose disposition kinetics for tildipirosin was evaluated in clinically healthy ewes (n = 6) after intravenous (IV), intramuscular (IM), and subcutaneous (SC) administration of a commercial formulation. Tildipirosin concentrations were determ...

Sensing and mapping element distributions in plant tissues and its growth environment has great significance for understanding the uptake, transport, and accumulation of nutrients and harmful elements in plants, as well as for understanding interacti...

Background/Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the plasma and muscle pharmacokinetics of ceftriaxone (25 mg/kg) in tilapia after different administration routes. Methods: Two hundred and sixteen fish maintained at 30 ± 1.5 °...

The microstructure and wear behavior of S390 high-speed steel (HSS) reinforced with different volume fractions of MC-type carbides produced via spark plasma sintering were investigated using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electro...

Menbutone is a choleretic agent currently used in Europe to treat digestive disorders in livestock and dogs. Pharmacokinetic parameters were established in 4-month Holstein calves after intravenous (IV) and intramuscular (IM) administration. The drug...

This study aimed to build machine learning prediction models for predicting pathological subtypes of prevascular mediastinal tumors (PMTs). The candidate predictors were clinical variables and dynamic contrast–enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI)–deriv...

The development of biometric techniques in domestic animals has greatly advanced scientific practices in wildlife research. The association between seminal characteristics and body and testicular biometry enables the selection of suitable breeders, t...

Background and Objectives: Previous reports suggest that spikes in plasma glucose affect cardiac autonomic modulation, reflected by a decrease in heart rate variability (HRV). Hence, the hypothesis of this analysis is that cardiac autonomic changes f...

This work deals with the deconfinement phase transition from a hadronic gas (HG) phase consisting of massive pions, to a quark–gluon plasma (QGP) phase consisting of gluons, massless up and down quarks and massive strange quarks, in addition to...

The paper is devoted to the experimental and CFD investigation of a plasma formation impact on the supersonic flow over a body “blunt cone-cylinder”. In the experiments, a series of schlieren pictures of bow shock wave–blast waves non-stationary inte...

We wanted to determine the influence of total blood volume (BV) and blood lactate quantity on lactate concentrations during incremental exercise. Twenty-six healthy, nonsmoking, heterogeneously trained females (27.5 ± 5.9 ys) performed an incr...

We investigated the mode transition from volume to surface discharge in a packed bed dielectric barrier discharge reactor by a two-dimensional particle-in-cell/Monte Carlo collision method. The calculations are performed at atmospheric pressure for v...

A theoretical analysis and computational study of biomaterial sample detection with surface plasmon resonance (SPR) phenomenon spectroscopy are presented in this work with the objective of achieving more sensitive detection. In this paper, a Fe₃O₄@Au...

The general coupling between particle transport and ionization-recombination processes in hot plasma is considered on the key concept of equilibrium charge state (CS) transport. A theoretical interpretation of particle and CS transport is gained in t...

Since inflammatory bowel disease is a progressive disease, optimal treatment early in the disease course is paramount. Still, the use of conventional drugs is accompanied by side effects. The herbal therapies for gastrointestinal disorders are tradit...