Thyroid hormone disorders and sepsis.

abstract：:We have developed a novel multicomponent nano-hydroxyapatite-poly(D,L-lactide-co-glycolide)-collagen biomaterial (nHAP-PLGA-collagen) with mechanical properties similar to human cancellous bone. To demonstrate the bone forming capacity of nHAP-PLGA-collagen prior to in vivo experiments, nHAP-PLGA-collagen films and 3D...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Bhuiyan DB,Middleton JC,Tannenbaum R,Wick TM

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty two ceramic femoral heads have been investigated after implantation. All heads had articulated against ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) cups. Examination of the heads shows changes in sphericity and surface roughness due to the wear. The behaviour of these retrieved heads after clinical use conf...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Fernández-Fairén M,Sala P,Gil FJ

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reoperation of aldehyde tanned bioprotheses due to calcific degeneration remains their major drawback. Based on experiments studying mechanisms and factors that influence the time phase, extent and progression of calcification and evaluating the efficiency of anticalcification treatments and the effects of surface see...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Dahm M,Rühe J,Berchthold B,Prüfer D,Prucker O,Chang BJ,Wallrath A,Oelert H

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gait analysis, such as portable gait rhythmogram (PGR), provides objective information that helps in the quantitative evaluation of human locomotion. OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to assess the reliability of PGR in post-stroke patients. METHODS:Two raters (A and B) examined 48 post-stroke patien...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Miyata R,Matsumoto S,Miura S,Kawamura K,Uema T,Miyara K,Niibo A,Hoei T,Ogura T,Shimodozono M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High order partial least squares (HOPLS) is a novel data processing method. It is highly suitable for building prediction model which has tensor input and output. The objective of this study is to build a prediction model of the relationship between sinoatrial node field potential and high glucose using HOPLS. The thr...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Feng Y,Cao H,Zhang Y

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electroencephalograph (EEG) signals feature extraction and processing is one of the most difficult and important part in the brain-computer interface (BCI) research field. EEG signals are generally unstable, complex and have low signal-noise ratio, which is difficult to be analyzed and processed. To solve this problem...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Wei Y,Jun Y,Lin S,Hong L

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To better analyze images with the Gaussian white noise, it is necessary to remove the noise before image processing. In this paper, we propose a self-adaptive image denoising method based on bidimensional empirical mode decomposition (BEMD). Firstly, normal probability plot confirms that 2D-IMF of Gaussian white noise...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Guo S,Luan F,Song X,Li C

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acrylic resins have been used in many different applications in dentistry, especially in the fabrication of provisional fixed partial dentures. Ideally, a provisional crown and bridge material should be easy to handle and should protect teeth against physical, chemical, and thermal injuries. Some of the problems assoc...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Panyayong W,Oshida Y,Andres CJ,Barco TM,Brown DT,Hovijitra S

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical testing has been performed to characterize the locking strength of Morse taper locks used for reconstruction of large bone defects. Taper joint pairs were locked with a series of compressive loads increasing from 500 to 3500 N. Following each load application the taper locks were distracted with either an a...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Duda GN,Elias JJ,Valdevit A,Chao EY

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to design a statistical segmentation technique to allow extraction of grey matter, white matter and cerebral spinal fluid volumes from diffusion tensor imaging. Four channel maps of the DTI are used as the input features, which provide more information for brain tissue segmentation compared wi...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Wen Y,He L

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of materials have been considered as sources of grafts to repair bone defects. Here, we examined the possibility of creating in situ-forming gels from sodium carboxymethylcellulose (CMC) and poly(ethyleneimine) (PEI) for use as an in vivo carrier of demineralized bone matrix (DBM). The interaction between ani...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Kim KS,Kang YM,Lee JY,Kim ES,Kim CH,Min BH,Lee HB,Kim JH,Kim MS

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the influence of Zn on the formation of hydroxyapatite (HA), zinc-containing glass 58S4Z was prepared by substitution of CaO with 4 wt% ZnO in 58S bioactive glass, and Zn-containing simulated body fluid (ZnSBF) was prepared as soaking fluid. During the soaking, all samples could induce the deposition of HA...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Du RL,Chang J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hip stem design based upon X-ray films requires sufficient information in order to customize for the patient. If the errors are resulted from rotating angles, more X-ray films may carry out the solution. The present study aimed to realize the improvement of multiple X-ray films for hip stem design. Eight X-ray fil...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Wei HW,Chung MY,Huang VW,Cheng CK

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface roughness has been considered as an important influencing factor for cell response. The aim of this study was to find out whether MC3T3-E1 cells, a mouse osteoblast-like cell line, can sense the amplitudes of surface topography of titanium alloy (Ti6Al4V), and if surface-dependent cell morphology would be pres...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Wu C,Chen M,Zheng T,Yang X

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Facial nerve paralysis is a common disease due to nerve damage. Most approaches for evaluating the degree of facial paralysis rely on a set of different facial movements as commanded by doctors. Therefore, automatic recognition of the patterns of facial movement is fundamental to the evaluation of the degree of facial...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Wang T,Dong J,Sun X,Zhang S,Wang S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work evaluated the effects of UV irradiation, plasma radiation, steam and 70% ethanol treatments on the sterilization and integrity of auto-crosslinked hyaluronic acid (HA-ACP) scaffolds structured in microparticles and sponges aiming in vivo applications for regenerative medicine of bone tissue. The integrity of...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Shimojo AA,de Souza Brissac IC,Pina LM,Lambert CS,Santana MH

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, a computer-aided detection (CAD) system was developed for the detection of lung nodules in computed tomography images. The CAD system consists of four phases, including two-dimensional and three-dimensional preprocessing phases. In the feature extraction phase, four different groups of features are extr...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Demir Ö,Yılmaz Çamurcu A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sino-atrial node cells (SANCs) play a significant role in rhythmic firing. To investigate their role in arrhythmia and interactions with the atrium, computer simulations based on cellular dynamic mathematical models are generally used. However, the large-scale computation usually makes research difficult, given the li...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Zhang H,Xiao Z,Lin SF

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polylactic acid (PLA)/styrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene (SEBS) composites were prepared by melt blending. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and wide angle X-ray diffraction (WXRD) were used to characterize PLA and PLA/SEBS composites in terms of their melting behavior and crystallization. Curves from thermal gra...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Tsou CH,Kao BJ,Yang MC,Suen MC,Lee YH,Chen JC,Yao WH,Lin SM,Tsou CY,Huang SH,De Guzman M,Hung WS

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two different types of colloidal lipid particles are presented and compared as innovative carrier systems. Size distribution and storage stability of formulations produced by hot high pressure homogenisation in lab and medium scale production were investigated by laser diffractometry (LD) and photon correlation spectr...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Saupe A,Wissing SA,Lenk A,Schmidt C,Müller RH

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In order to manufacture pharmaceutical products, real-time monitoring in the manufacturing process is necessary, but large equipment cost is required to achieve it. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this research is to use ultra-violet-visible spectroscopy along with chemometrics procedure to simultaneously carry out qu...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Peerapattana J,Hattori Y,Otsuka M

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, biocompatibility of 17-4 PH stainless steel foam for biomedical implant applications was investigated. 17-4 PH stainless steel foams having porosities in the range of 40-82% with an average pore size of around 600 μm were produced by space holder-sintering technique. Sintered foams were precipitation ha...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Mutlu I,Oktay E

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the inhibition effect of oxymatrine induces human lung cancer A549 cells apoptosis. The A549 cells were cultured for 24 h, than the various concentration of oxymatrine (2 mmol/L, 4 mmol/L, 8 mmol/L, 15 mmol/L) were added into different experimental group cells, and 5-fluorouracil were added into the pos...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Wang B,Han Q,Zhu Y

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of hydroxyapatite sol (HAm) which is composed of unheating hydroxyapatite microcrystal particle on cell proliferation and alkaline phophatase activity in osteoblastic MC3T3-E1 cells, was examined in the presence or absence of fetal calfe serum (FCS) in the medium. In the absence of FCS, HAm inhibited the ce...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Iwakami T,Imai T

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) and intraocular neovascular diseases have been treated clinically by anti-VEGF antibody drug bevacizumab. However, the use of bevacizumab in the treatment of retinal neovascular diseases has been limited due to the short half-life and frequent injections. In this research, novel...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Hu CC,Chaw JR,Chen CF,Liu HW

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Longitudinal stent compression (LSC) is a new failure mode not previously observed in coronary stents. This phenomenon occurs when the physician tries to cross the deployed stent with other devices. While this phenomenon has been observed with a number of stent designs, it seems more common with the Element stent. A c...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Hsiao HM,Yeh CT,Chiu YH,Wang C,Chen CP

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly(propylene fumarate-co-ethylene glycol) random (PPF-1) and block (PPF-2) copolymer oligomers were prepared. Comparing the setting characteristics of PPF-1 and PPF-2 with comonomer n-vinyl pyrrolidone (n-VP) and swelling characteristics of cured PPF-1 and PPF-2, lower setting temperature and setting time was observ...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Jayabalan M,Thomas V,Sreelatha PK

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between implant materials and bone cells or oral epithelial (OE) cells contributes to the clinical success of dental implants. The functional activity of cells in contact with an implant is determined by its surface properties. Before cells attach, extracellular matrix (ECM) in the serum deposits on th...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Goto T,Yoshinari M,Kobayashi S,Tanaka T

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported a simple method for the preparation of size-controlled spherical silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) generated by autoclaving a mixture of silver-containing glass powder and glucose. The particle size is regulated by the glucose concentration, with concentrations of 0.25, 1.0 and 4.0 wt% glucose provi...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Nguyen VQ,Ishihara M,Mori Y,Nakamura S,Kishimoto S,Fujita M,Hattori H,Kanatani Y,Ono T,Miyahira Y,Matsui T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyaluronic acid (HA) was used as an internal phase additive to improve the loading efficiency of ofloxacin, a hydrophilic drug encapsulated by hydrophobic polylactic-co-glycolic acid (PLGA) materials, through a double emulsion (water-in-oil-in-water) solvent extraction/evaporation method. Results from laser distributi...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Wu G,Chen L,Li H,Wang YJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00