Transplantation

Does size matter? Kidney transplant donor size determines kidney function among living donors.

BACKGROUND: Kidney donor outcomes are gaining attention, particularly as donor eligibility criteria ...

A LASSO Method to Identify Protein Signature Predicting Post-transplant Renal Graft Survival.

Identifying novel biomarkers to predict renal graft survival is important in post-transplant clinica...

An ensemble model of QSAR tools for regulatory risk assessment.

Quantitative structure activity relationships (QSARs) are theoretical models that relate a quantitat...

Automatic 3D liver location and segmentation via convolutional neural network and graph cut.

PURPOSE: Segmentation of the liver from abdominal computed tomography (CT) images is an essential st...

Impact of FGF23 level on calcium and phosphorus levels in post-renal transplantation.

The level of fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23) may be considered as a prognostic factor for asses...

A design concept of parallel elasticity extracted from biological muscles for engineered actuators.

Series elastic actuation that takes inspiration from biological muscle-tendon units has been extensi...

Applying Cost-Sensitive Extreme Learning Machine and Dissimilarity Integration to Gene Expression Data Classification.

Embedding cost-sensitive factors into the classifiers increases the classification stability and red...

Iliac Limb Perigraft Access with Robotic Catheter Assistance for Type 2 Endoleak Embolization.

Retrograde perigraft access to the aneurysmal sac for type 2 endoleak embolization is a relevant alt...

Neuro-endocrine effects of aqueous extract of (Linn.) leaf in male Wistar rat model of cyclophosphamide-induced reproductive toxicity.

Cyclophosphamide (CP) is a widely used cytotoxic alkylating agent with antitumor and immunosuppressa...

An image-guided automated robot for MRI breast biopsy.

BACKGROUND: The IGAR (Image-guided Automated Robot) is a robotic platform capable of performing high...

Development and characterization of methoxy poly(ethylene oxide)--poly(ε-caprolactone) (PEO--PCL) micelles as vehicles for the solubilization and delivery of tacrolimus.

Tacrolimus is a potent immunosuppressant; however, it suffers from several problems such as poor wat...

Assessment of mold contamination and physicochemical properties of crude palm oil sold in Jos, Nigeria.

Due to increasing reports on poor-quality palm oil in the market, there has been a continual decreas...

Representing higher-order dependencies in networks.

To ensure the correctness of network analysis methods, the network (as the input) has to be a suffic...

A MULTICENTER, LONGITUDINAL, INTERVENTIONAL, DOUBLE BLIND RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIAL IN HEMATOPOIETIC CELL TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS RESIDING IN REMOTE AREAS: LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE LATE CYTOMEGALOVIRUS PREVENTION TRIAL.

PURPOSE: The logistics of conducting double-blinded phase III clinical trials with participants resi...

G-Protein-Coupled Receptor 35 Mediates Human Saphenous Vein Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Migration and Endothelial Cell Proliferation.

Vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) migration and proliferation is central to neointima formation in ...

Re: Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy vs Standard Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy: A Prospective Randomized Comparative Study.

Optimizing annotation resources for natural language de-identification via a game theoretic framework.

OBJECTIVE: Electronic medical records (EMRs) are increasingly repurposed for activities beyond clini...

Trends in Robotic-Assisted Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts: A Study of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database, 2006 to 2012.

BACKGROUND: Robotic technology is one of the most recent technological changes in coronary artery by...

ZeitZeiger: supervised learning for high-dimensional data from an oscillatory system.

Numerous biological systems oscillate over time or space. Despite these oscillators' importance, dat...

Accurate Segmentation of CT Male Pelvic Organs via Regression-Based Deformable Models and Multi-Task Random Forests.

Segmenting male pelvic organs from CT images is a prerequisite for prostate cancer radiotherapy. The...

Adipokines, inflammatory mediators, and insulin-resistance parameters may not be good markers of metabolic syndrome after liver transplant.

OBJECTIVE: The role of adipokines in liver transplantation (LTx) recipients who have metabolic syndr...