Background: Sepsis is a major cause of ICU admissions, with high mortality and morbidity.
The lungs are particularly vulnerable to infection and injury, and restoration of vascular …

Aims Endothelial barrier dysfunction is associated with multiple diseases, and barrier repair
may be a possible therapeutic target. Yes-associated protein and its pathway have been …

Acute lung injury (ALI) and its severe form, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS),
present life-threatening conditions characterized by inflammation and endothelial injury …

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare but progressive and lethal vascular disease
of diverse etiologies, mainly caused by proliferation of endothelial cells, smooth muscle cells …

Abstract Aim Calcineurin inhibitors (CNIs) are the backbone for immunosuppression after
solid organ transplantation. Although successful in preventing kidney transplant rejection …

A novel and simple interface used in a high-performance liquid chromatography-catalytic
cold vapor-atomic fluorescence spectrometry (HPLC-CCV-AFS) hyphenated system without …

Biomaterials serve as the basis of implants, tissue engineering scaffolds, and multiple other
biomedical therapeutics. New technologies, such as single cell RNA sequencing …

Abstract Objectives Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), classically expanded in culture from
bone marrow, are of broad interest to the regenerative medicine community. Human nasal …

Skeletal muscle, the largest human organ by weight, is relevant to several polygenic
metabolic traits and diseases including type 2 diabetes (T2D). Identifying genetic …

Extract Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a life-threating condition associated with abnormally
elevated pulmonary pressures and right heart failure. Current epidemiological data indicate …