Bile duct injuries are the most common serious complication of cholecystectomy. Avoidance
of bile duct injury is a key aim of biliary surgery. The purpose of this paper is to describe …

Bile salts are present in the intestines of humans as well as the animals used during the
development of pharmaceutical products. This review provides a short introduction into the …

Microrobots that can be precisely guided to target lesions have been studied for in vivo
medical applications. However, existing microrobots have challenges in vivo such as …

Small rodents are the most used experimental models in liver surgical research. Hepatic
resections in rodents are commonly performed to study liver regeneration, acute liver failure …

The size of the liver of terrestrial mammals obeys the allometric scaling law over a weight
range of> 3∗ 10 6. Since scaling reflects adaptive changes in size or scale among otherwise …

Application desired functionality as well as operation expenses of cold atmospheric
pressure plasma (CAP) devices scale with properties like gas selection. The present …

The aim of this study was to describe and illustrate the morphology of the stomach, liver,
intestine, and their vasculature to support the planning of surgical therapeutic methods in …

Background: Prolonged postprandial hypertriglyceridemia is a potential risk factor for
cardiovascular diseases. In the context of obesity, this is associated with a chronic …

Strong events of long-range transported biomass burning aerosol were detected during July
2013 at three EARLINET (European Aerosol Research Lidar Network) stations, namely …

Background. Apoptosis contributes to the severity of ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI),
limiting the use of extended criteria donors in liver transplantation (LT). Machine perfusion …