output with a device resembling a water mill. Malinow and associates6 described a technique of preparing the rat heart-lung, but reported no observations upon it. Pietra an7 d Minelli also described a technique, and measured flow with a mechanical drop counter. Solomon and associates8-9 developed a technique for pre-

Rat lung worm or Angiostrongylus cantonensis is a parasite that mainly lives in rodents such as rats and can infect snails and slugs that come into contact with infected rat faeces. People can be infected when they eat an infected snail or slug or even the slime that they leave behind. What are the symptoms? Most people may have no symptoms at all.

A rat lung lobectomy was performed on different days, and the ACL tissue was fixed in 10% formalin, embedded in paraffin, and then sliced in 4 μm sections for hematoxylin–eosin staining ...

Oxygen-Induced Alterations in Lung Vascular Development in the Newborn Rat. Robert J Roberts 1, Kenneth M Weesner 1 & John R Bucher 1 Pediatric Research volume 17, pages 368–375 (1983)Cite this ...

To elucidate the role of autophagy in GO-induced lung injury, rats were then treated with 50 mg/kg GO and the autophagy inhibitors 3-MA and CLQ, and the levels of autophagy-related proteins and the severity of GO-induced lung injury were assessed. Autophagy was also specifically inhibited in BEAS-2B cells via shRNA-mediated ATG5 knockdown, and ...

Qilin pills (QLPs), a classic Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) formula for treating male infertility, effectively improve semen quality in clinical trials. This study was designed to evaluate the effects of QLPs on spermatogenesis, reproductive hormones, oxidative stress, and the testis-specific serinekinase-2 (TSSK2) gene in a rat model of oligoasthenospermia.

Mina is a veterinarian in Hilo. His rat lungworm patients are mostly dogs, especially puppies. "The dogs at that age — around six to nine weeks — are curious," says Mina. "They put anything in...

Diacetyl (DA) is a highly reactive alpha diketone associated with flavoring-related lung disease. In rodents, acute DA vapor exposure can initiate an airway-centric, inflammatory response. However, this immune response has yet to be fully characterized in the context of flavoring-related lung disease progression. The following studies were designed to …

Rat lungworm is a parasitic roundworm known by the scientific name Angiostrongylus cantonensis. Rats are the primary hosts for this parasite and the only animal in which the worm can complete its full life cycle. When humans are infected with rat lungworm, the parasite can't fully mature or reproduce.

About This Disease Angiostrongyliasis, also known as rat lungworm, is a disease that affects the brain and spinal cord. It is caused by a parasitic nematode (roundworm parasite) called Angiostrongylus cantonensis. The adult form of A. …

A host of famous faces have taken to social media to share their festive plans and wish fans a Merry Christmas. Coldplay, the Beckhams and the actors Tom Felton and Taron Egerton were among the ...

There are a number of studies that have been done on rat lungworm in China, Thailand and Taiwan, where most cases have originated. At this time, there is no medical research that has been done in Hawaiʻi. References are available in the Overview sectionof the website. Q. Why are 90% of RLW cases on the east side of the Big Island?

Background and purpose: Baicalin has been reported to have anti-inflammatory effects and protect against various tissue injuries. However, the effect of baicalin on air embolism-induced acute lung injury has not been tested yet. Experimental approach: Acute lung injury was induced by infusion of air at a rate of 0.25 mL·min −1 for 1 min into the pulmonary artery of rat …

Posttransplantation lung ischemia–reperfusion (IR) injuries affect both patient survival and graft function. In this study, we evaluated the protective effects of infused human multilineage-differentiating stress-enduring (Muse) cells, a novel, easily harvested type of nontumorigenic endogenous reparative stem cell, against acute IR lung injury in a rat model.

The clearance of titanium dioxide from the lungs was studied in rats after inhalation of 15 or 100 mg/cu m. The average median aerodynamic diameter of the titanium dioxide particles was 1.48 um. After a single exposure, about 40-45% of the deposited particles were …

The primary flavonoid, pinocembrin, is thought to have a variety of medical uses which relate to its reported anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial and anti-cancer properties. Some studies have reported that this flavonoid has anti-fibrotic activities. In this study, we investigated whether pinocembrin would impede fibrosis, dampen inflammation and …

The lung tissue of the Wistar rats exposed to chrysotile from the four mining areas was shown that its appearance and the difference of lung function were significant (P < 0.05). HE staining showed that four kinds of chrysotile fiber damaged the lung tissue in different degrees, and long-term exposure could induce lung fibrosis (Table 2, Fig ...

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9/7/2017 DISSOLUTION OF GLASS FIBERS IN THE RAT LUNG FOLLOWING INTRATRACHEAL INSTILLATION ... Slices approximately 50 µm thick were cut from the blocks with a rotary end mill, and, after removing the resin by low temperature ashing, the fibers were collected and mixed to ensure homogeneity. The average lengths of these

RESEARCH ARTICLE Prophylactic treatment with MSC-derived exosomes attenuates traumatic acute lung injury in rats Qing-Chun Li,1 Yun Liang,2 and Zhen-Bo Su3 1Department of Gastrointestinal Colorectal and Anal Surgery, China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, People's Republic of China; 2Center of Physical Examination, China …

Exposure to different ambient pollutants maybe more toxic to lung than exposure to a single pollutant. In this study, we discussed the inflammation and oxidative stress responses of rat lung caused by ozone and PM 2.5 versus that of rats exposed to saline, ozone, or single PM 2.5.Wistar rats inhaled 0.8 ppm ozone or air for 4 h and then placed in air for 3 h following …

Cytology of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (left lung) and lung and body weights for control animals and rats exposed to the different aerosols (n = 6 per group). Supplemental 6. Lung burden and clearance of P25 TiO 2 (normalized to the airborne TiO 2 concentration and fitted with a first order kinetic model) for the different exposure conditions ...

However, the isolation, culture and application of rat lung mesenchymal stem cells have not yet been reported. In this current study, we successfully obtained PMSCs from the lung tissues of 18-day-old Sprague-Dawley rat embryos using collagenase digestion method, and evaluated their differentiation potential in vitro.

The lung can be exposed to a variety of reactive nitrogen intermediates through the inhalation of environmental oxidants and those produced during inflammation. Reactive nitrogen species (RNS) include, nitrogen dioxide (.NO2) and peroxynitrite (ONOO-). Classically known as a major component of both indoor and outdoor air pollution, .NO2 is a toxic free radical gas. .

Methods: Male Sprague-Dawley rats were mechanically ventilated for 4 h with low (7 ml/kg) or high (40 ml/kg) tidal volumes; non-ventilated rats were used as controls. Lung injury and inflammation were measured by the lung injury score, protein leakage, myeloperoxidase activity, pro-inflammatory cytokine levels and nuclear factor (NF)-κB activity.

Methods: Rats were challenged with a single mass (1 mg) dose of particles via intratracheal instilla-tion and groups sacrificed at one, three, and nine weeks. Acute bioreactivity of the particles was assessed by increases in lung permeability and inflammation, changes in epithelial cell markers, and increase in the size of bronchothoracic lymph ...

The dose of 1 mg of dust delivered to rats by intratracheal instillation was chosen because investigations with other dusts have indicated that this dose can induce inflammatory changes in the lung and translocate the pulmonary epithelium. 5, 6 In order to achieve this deposition by inhalation, clouds of cristobalite dust at a concentration of ...

The effect of blocking abdominal lymphatic flow on histopathological change of lung in AHNP rats. A: Lung in a sham operation animal 6 hr after injection of saline, mild alveolar septum edema and inflammatory infiltrate.B: AHNP group, diffuse pulmonary capillary dilatation and congestion, intense alveolar septum swelling and breakage, part of alveolar structural …

3D Neural Network for Lung Cancer Risk Prediction on CT Volumes Overview. This repository contains my implementation of the "full-volume" model from the paper: End-to-end lung cancer screening with three-dimensional deep learning on low-dose chest computed tomography. Ardila, D., Kiraly, A.P., Bharadwaj, S. et al. Nat Med 25, 954–961 (2019).