Stereology offers a number of tools for the analysis of sections in microscopy (which usually
provide only two‐dimensional information) for the purpose of estimating geometric …

Diabetic cardiomyopathy has been increasingly recognized as an important cause of heart
failure in diabetic patients. Excessive oxidative stress has been suggested to play a critical …

The invention is directed to methods and systems of hyper spectral and multispectral
imaging of medical tissues. In par ticular, the invention is directed to new devices, tools and …

Various approaches have been used to model human Graves' disease in mice, including
transfected fibroblasts, and plasmid or adenoviral immunisations with the extracellular A …

Interleukin 11 (IL11) is a profibrotic cytokine, secreted by myofibroblasts and damaged
epithelial cells. Smooth muscle cells (SMCs) also secrete IL11 under pathological conditions …

Liver fibrosis is associated with an abnormal increase in an extracellular matrix in chronic
liver diseases. Quantitative characterization of fibrillar collagen in intact tissue is essential for …

An experimental Mueller matrix polarimeter is used to quantify human liver fibrosis by
measuring retardance and depolarization of thin biopsies. The former parameter is sensitive …

Background Accurate and noninvasive diagnosis and staging of liver fibrosis are essential
for effective clinical management of chronic liver disease (CLD). We aimed to identify serum …

Objective The purpose of this study was to verify the modeling accuracy of various products,
and to produce custom-made devices for bone augmentation in individual patients requiring …

Purpose To develop a simple and inexpensive method to visualize and quantify droplet
deposition patterns. Methods Deposition pattern was determined by uniformly coating the …