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- Brandhorst, Heide, et al.
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New class of oxygen carriers improves islet isolation from long-term stored rat pancreata
- 2008
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Ingår i: Transplantation Proceedings. - : Elsevier BV. - 0041-1345 .- 1873-2623. ; 40:2, s. 393-394
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- OBJECTIVE: Pancreas shipment is frequently associated with prolonged ischemia deteriorating islet graft function. The strategy to prevent ischemic damage utilizing perfluorodecalin (PFD) for human pancreas oxygenation does not seem to improve isolation outcome. The present study investigated the efficiency of perfluorohexyloctane (F6H8), a hyperoxygen carrier characterized by low specific density (1.33 g/cm3) and lipophilic qualities, to facilitate islet isolation from long-term stored rat pancreata. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Prior to islet isolation, pancreata were intraductally flushed in situ with Kyoto solution (KS) and stored for 24 hours in KS, oxygenated PFD, or F6H8. RESULTS: Islet isolation performed after 24-hour storage in KS failed completely. The intrapancreatic pO2 in PFD- and F6H8-incubated pancreata was almost the same. In correspondence, the ATP content and viability of isolated islets were similar as well. In contrast, islet yield and in vitro function were significantly reduced after storage in PFD compared with F6H8. CONCLUSION: This study suggested that islet isolation performed after long-term pancreas preservation can be significantly improved utilizing semifluorinated alkanes as oxygen carriers.
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- Nakajima, Y., et al.
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Dosimetry by means of in-beam PET with RI beam irradiation
- 2013
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Ingår i: IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record. - 1095-7863.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In situ visualization of deposited dose distribution is necessary to exploit the advantages of Carbon-ion therapy. Therefore we are developing the world's first, open-type PET 'OpenPET' to verify the field irradiated. In addition, a method of utilizing activity measurement in the target irradiated with the beam with positron-emitting radioisotopes (RI) such as 11C and 10C has been proposed. This method has advantage in the amount of activity as well as direct visualization of primary particles themselves, compared with the irradiation with stable nuclei 12C beam. With the RI beam, however, the profile of the dose was still different from that of the activity. Therefore interpretation from activity distribution to dose distribution is necessary to confirm the irradiation field precisely. In this paper, we developed a method of estimating the dose distribution from PET measurements. To utilize the activity measurement of the target, we used the code which calculated the activation distribution and dose distribution taking initial beam energy as a free parameter. Then the maximum likelihood parameter of the initial energy was determined by comparing the measured and the calculated distributions. By using the parameter determined, the dose distribution in the target was calculated as the estimated distribution for the actual one. The uniform PMMA target was irradiated with 11C beam for 10 s. The target was measured from the time beam irradiation started and to 60 s after finishing the irradiation by using a small single-ring OpenPET prototype developed for a proof-of-concept of the in-beam monitoring for charged particle therapy. As a result, the dose distribution, which was originally different from primary particles distribution, was successfully estimated. The peak depth of the estimated dose distribution was in good agreement with the measured dose peak. © 2013 IEEE.
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- Proletov, Ian, et al.
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Primary and secondary glomerulonephritides 1.
- 2014
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Ingår i: Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1460-2385. ; 29 Suppl 3:May, s. 186-200
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