Only a fraction of end-stage organ failure can be treated with a transplant because of shortage of donor organs. Although the long-term artificial organ support such as ventricular assist devices provide therapeutic options serve as a bridge-to-transplantation or destination therapy for end-stage heart failure, an artificial lung system suitable long term is still in the early stages of development.
Although short-term use of extracorporeal lung support feasible at this time, the technical solutions that are currently available do not allow long-term use of the reimbursement system in the case of lung artificial lung implants. This current is limited by various factors: biocompatibility problems cause clot formation in the system, especially in areas with unphysiological flow conditions.
Additionally, proteins, cells, and fibrin that is deposited on the membrane, decreased performance and thus the gas exchange, limiting the long-term use. Therefore, coordinated basic and translational scientific research to solve this problem is necessary to allow for long-term use and implantation of an artificial lung. Strategies for improving the biocompatibility of a foreign surface, for a new anticoagulant regime, for the optimization of gas and blood flow, and for miniaturization of this system must be found.
This strategy should be validated by in vitro and in vivo tests, which are still to be developed. In addition, the effect of long-term support in the pathophysiology should be considered. These challenges require an interdisciplinary team of well-connected from the natural sciences and materials, engineering, and medicine, are taking the necessary steps towards the development of an artificial implant lungs.
cultural stereotypes such as the idea that men are more suitable for paid work and women are better suited to take care of home and family, may contribute to the gender imbalance in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), in between the sexes other undesirable gap. This stereotype might be learned from the language? Here we examine whether gender stereotypes reflected in the large-scale distribution structure semantics of natural language.
Review: electrophoresed in cell characterization
Many cell function is influenced by and can thus be characterized by cell electrophysiology. It has also been found to correspond with other biophysical parameters such as cell morphology and mechanical properties. Dielectrophoresis (DEP) is an electrostatic technique that can be used to examine the cellular biophysical parameters through measurements of single or dual-cell response to an electric field-induced forces.
This free labeling method offers many advantages in characterizing cell populations over conventional electrophysiological methods such as patch clamp; However, it was not seen pharmacological applications mainstream. Challenges such as the transdisciplinary nature of the field of bridge engineering and biological sciences, throughput, specificity and standardization are being discussed in the current literature.
This review focuses on the development of cell-based DEP electrophysiological characterization which determine cellular properties such as membrane conductance and capacitance and conductivity of the cytoplasm is the main motivation. A brief theoretical overview, the technique for obtaining the cell parameters, as well as the parameters of the resulting cells and their applications included in this review.
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This review aims to further support the development of cell-based characterization of DEP as an important part of the future of DEP and electrophysiological studies. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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