Published in Journal of medical systems
In the framework of computer-aided diagnosis of eye disease, a new contextual image feature named influence degree of average intensity is proposed for retinal vessel image segmentation. This new feature evaluates the influence degree of current detected pixel decreasing the average intensity of the local row where that pixel located. Firstly, Hess...
Published in Gene expression patterns : GEP
The murine retina has become an ideal model to study blood vessel formation. Blood vessels in the retina undergo various processes, including remodeling and differentiation, to form a stereotypical network that consists of precisely patterned arteries and veins. This model presents a powerful tool for understanding many different aspects of angioge...
Published in Biomaterials
This paper describes a method for fabricating perfusable vascular channels coated with endothelial cells within a cultured skin-equivalent by fixing it to a culture device connected to an external pump and tubes. A histological analysis showed that vascular channels were constructed in the skin-equivalent, which showed a conventional dermal/epiderm...
Published in Gene expression patterns : GEP
The murine retina has become an ideal model to study blood vessel formation. Blood vessels in the retina undergo various processes, including remodeling and differentiation, to form a stereotypical network that consists of precisely patterned arteries and veins. This model presents a powerful tool for understanding many different aspects of angioge...
Published in Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology
A stabilizing criterion is derived for equations governing vascular growth and remodeling. We start from the integral state equations of the continuum-based constrained mixture theory of vascular growth and remodeling and obtain a system of time-delayed differential equations describing vascular growth. By employing an exponential form of the const...
Published in Biology open
Maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy can cause a series of developmental disorders in the fetus called FAS (fetal alcohol syndrome). In the present study we exposed zebrafish embryos to 1% and 2% alcohol and observed the morphology of heart and blood vessels during and after exposure to investigate motor function alterations, and damage an...
Published in Methods (San Diego, Calif.)
Since the development of a dependable and durable synthetic non-autogenous vascular conduit in the mid-twentieth century, the field of vascular surgery has experienced tremendous growth. Concomitant with this growth, development in the field of bioengineering and the development of different tissue engineering techniques have expanded the armamenta...
Published in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
Methods are described for analyzing adhesion of isolated cells (such as leukocytes, tumor cells, or precursor cells) to purified adhesion receptors or cultured endothelial cells. "Static" assays (where cells are allowed to settle on the adhesive substrates) and flow-based assays (where cells are perfused over the substrates) are compared. Direct ob...
The University of ManchesterDonna Joanne PagePhD in Development BiologyExploring the role of transmembrane 4 L six family member 1 (tm4sf1) in the control of tip cell behaviour during sprouting angiogenesis2015ABSTRACTAngiogenesis is the process of new blood vessel sprouting from pre-existing vessels and is responsible for generating the majority o...
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The early management of the cardiovascular dysfunction of septic shock is critical as it is associated with a poor outcome. Although the use of catecholamines is a common therapy in this syndrome, no data are available on the involvement of β-adrenoceptor (β-AR) subtypes and only few studies report an alteration of β-adrener...
