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Andrzej Polanczyk, Aleksandra Piechota-Polanczyk, Agnieszka W. Piastowska-Ciesielska, Ihor Huk, Christoph Neumayer, Julia Balcer and Michal Strzelecki
The objective of this study is to assess the ability of an Artificial Circulatory Phantom (ACP) to verify its accuracy in simulating the movement of artificial vessels vs. real vessels under changing cardiovascular parameters such as heartbeat, ejection ...
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Isehaq Al-Huseini, Maryam Al-Ismaili, Ammar Boudaka and Srinivasa Rao Sirasanagandla
Vascular calcification is calcium deposition occurring in the wall of blood vessels, leading to mechanical stress and rupture due to a loss of elasticity and the hardening of the vessel wall. The role of the Transient Receptor Channel Vanilloid 4 (TRPV4)...
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Arkadiusz Grzeczka, Urszula Paslawska, Szymon Graczyk, Paulina Antosik, Marcin Zawadzki and Robert Paslawski
Pulmonary venous hypertension (PVH) is caused by deteriorating left ventricular function. The most common cause of PVH in dogs is myxomatous mitral valve degeneration (MMVD). It causes left ventricular volume overload and an increase in left atrial and p...
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Xialan He, Ting Wang and Wankou Yang
Due to the limitations of traditional retinal blood vessel segmentation algorithms in feature extraction, vessel breakage often occurs at the end. To address this issue, a retinal vessel segmentation algorithm based on a modified U-shaped network is prop...
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Carlos Munoz, Kirsten Schröder, Bernhard Henes, Jane Hubert, Sébastien Leblond, Stéphane Poigny, Ralf Reski and Franziska Wandrey
The moss Physcomitrium patens (P. patens), formerly known as Physcomitrella patens, has ascended to prominence as a pivotal model organism in plant biology. Its simplicity in structure and life cycle, coupled with genetic amenability, has rendered it ind...
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Guillermo Aguilera Nuñez, Anders Glimskär, Giulia Zacchello, Richard M. Francksen, Mark J. Whittingham and Matthew Hiron
Permanent grasslands cover more than a third of European agricultural land and are important for a number of ecosystem services. Permanent grasslands used for agriculture are broadly separated into agriculturally improved and semi-natural grasslands. Hig...
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Yueling Pei, Yanfang Sun, Yuan Chen, Tuizi Feng, Haiyan Che and Haibo Long
The aim of this study was to determine the status of weed Solanum nigrum L. as a transitional host for Meloidogyne enterolobii and its effect on the population base of the nematodes in the next season. The nematode species infecting S. nigrum L. in a fal...
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Hye-In Ho, Chae-Hong Park, Kyeong-Eun Yoo, Nan-Young Kim and Soon-Jin Hwang
Eutrophic freshwater ecosystems are vulnerable to toxin-producing cyanobacteria growth or harmful algal blooms. Cyanobacteria belonging to the Nostocales order form akinetes that are similar to the seeds of vascular plants, which are resting cells surrou...
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Paula Hawlitschek, Michele C. Klymiuk, Asmaa Eldaey, Sabine Wenisch, Stefan Arnhold and Mohamed I. Elashry
Skeletal muscle-derived stem cells (MDSCs) are the key modulators of muscle regeneration. An inappropriate cellular microenvironment can reduce the regenerative capacity of MDSCs. This study evaluates the effect of microenvironmental alterations on the c...
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Qianmu Xiao and Liang Zhao
Acquiring relevant, high-quality, and heterogeneous medical images is essential in various types of automated analysis, used for a variety of downstream data augmentation tasks. However, a large number of real image samples are expensive to obtain, espec...
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