Presence of Atrial Natriuretic Peptides in Respiratory System

Expression of Orphanin FQ in Mature Mucous Tissue

EVALUATION OF 17 CITRUS RETICULATA VARIETIES AND HYBRIDS IN WESTERN SICILY

ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM WALL RUPTURE RISK EVALUATION THROUGH COMPUTERIZED FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS MODEL AND FUZZY-TOPSIS DECISION METHOD

Modification of the peptides ANP and oxytocin in the rat hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus during the physical exercises.

Three-dimensional computer models in a case of Azygos lobe discovered during adenocarcinoma surgery

Abdominal aortic aneurysm wall rupture risk evaluation through computerized element analysis model and fuzzy-tosis decision method.

Atrial natriuretic factor, but not oxytocin, is present in atherosclerotic plaques of human common carotid arteries

We performed a study on 25 common carotid arteries (CCA) affected by atherosclerotic plaques, comparing them to 25 normal CCA. We researched the presence and localisation of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) and oxytocin (OX) by immunohistochemistry. We found ANF abundantly expressed in plaques, mainly localising in intima and subintima layers; by contrast normal vessels were scarcely positive or negative; finally, OX resulted negative or weakly positive in both atherosclerotic and normal vessels. Our results show for the first time ANF presence in atherosclerotic plaques of CCA and are in agreement with other studies, mainly performed in vitro, that hypothesise the involvement of this molecu…

A Web-based Intelligent Tutoring System for Clinical Anatomy

ANP IMUUNOLOCALITATION IN INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY WALL OF SUBJECTS WITH AN WITHOUT ATHEROSCLEROTIC LESIONS

Development of software in the study of carotid artery in the neck.

The aim of this work was to develop and employ software for the study of the common carotid artery and its branches in the neck. We first constructed geometric models of anatomic components, for the building of knowledge bases to be used in automatic feature extraction techniques from images. Then, we developed a software system characterised by three-dimensional visualisation, image processing functions, knowledge base and a programming language to describe classification processing by means of fuzzy logic. The software system was used to perform automatic reconstruction of three-dimensional models of carotid arteries from contiguous CT scans of the neck. These findings suggest that such s…

ANP PRESENCE IN THE COROID PLEXUS IN THE LATERAL VENTRICLES IN THE DEVELOPING RAT

Histochemical Geography and Ultrastructural Remarks of the Urinary Tract in Some Mammals

Our investigations oriented towards the urinary tracts, particulary the bladder and ureter, were carried out by histochemical and ultrastructural studies by SEM and TEM observation. In this segment of urinary tract, by structural, ultrastructural and chemical analysis, have evinced variations related to different animal species (guinea pig, rabbit and rat). The bladder wall was considered from us for histochemical aspects related to hydrolytic lysosomial enzymes (Ac-Phase; Na-beta-Gase) and oxidative enzymes (SDH; Iso-DH; MADH) and ultrastructural aspect with TEM. The SEM observations showed the connection between morphovolumetric variations of uroepithelial cells and respiratory enzymatic …

Automatic induction of rules for computer-aided diagnosis in the multiple sclerosis by analysis of brain MR images