Cold Storage Exacerbates Renal and Mitochondrial Dysfunction Following Transplantation

Shrum S, MacMillan-Crow LA and Parajuli N

Long-term renal function is compromised in patients receiving deceased donor kidneys which require cold storage exposure prior to transplantation. I..Посмотреть больше»

Barriers to Patient Engagement in Managing Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and How to Overcome It?

Amit Varma*

Phase Angle (PA) has been related to the integrity of cell membranes, as a good prognostic indicator, with the general health and nutritional status of patients. Hyperglycemia h..Посмотреть больше»

Characterization of Cardiac Troponin I Raman Signature in Bovine Serum Albumin and Human Blood Serum for the Potential Diagnosis of Myocardial Infarction

Sara Moghaddamjoo, Amir Pasha Tashakor, Sahba Talebi Fard, Yashar Tashakkor A, Ezra Kwok, Yueh Alison Li, Najme Tavassoli, Glen F Tibbits, Grant Ed and Andrew Rawicz

Cardiac troponin I is one of the most specific and widely used biomarkers of myocardial infarction. Prompt recognition of elevated troponin concentrations in th..Посмотреть больше»

Acute Renal Artery Embolism: A Case Report and Literature Review

Hung-Sheng Huang, Chien-Chin Hsu and Kuo-Tai Chen

Renal artery embolism (RAE) is a rare disease, and its clinical features and diagnostic tools are mysterious to most physicians. Anticoagulants, surgery, and thrombolytic therap..Посмотреть больше»

Effect of Glucose Administration on the Metabolism during Surgery

Shoko Kitamura, Jun Hirokawa, Saori Sako and Takeshi Yokoyama

Background and aim: Glucose is stored mainly in the liver and muscles as glycogen. However, the total calorie..Посмотреть больше»

A Novel Validation Strategy for Next Generation Sequencing Mutation Profiling in FFPE Tissues

Ken CN Chang, Gladys Arreaza, John Kang, Maureen Maguire, Ping Qiu and Matthew J Marton

Abstract

We previously developed a “concordance calculator” to quantify reproducibility of multi-variant calls among next generation sequencing (NGS) sampl..Посмотреть больше»