Hisateru Takano

TL;DR: Hamster islets in groups of 400–1000 encapsulated in microbeads containing 11–14% (wt/wt) agarose were xenogenically transplanted into the peritoneal cavity of five diabetic mice and secreted insulin into the culture medium and could rapidly increase their insulin release in response to a glucose challenge even after >100 days.

TL;DR: The results indicate that long-term ventricular assistance in the intact heart leads to myocardial atrophy, and suggests that in the damaged heart subjected to prolonged unloading by Ventricular assistance, there is the possibility of limiting compensatory hypertrophic changes in the residual intact myocardium.

TL;DR: The findings indicate that the combination of BMIPP and thallium for myocardial imaging supply different information about the zone of infarction and ischemia, which may be useful for the assessment of myocardIAL viability.

TL;DR: It is indicated that LVADs cause cardiac atrophy which correlates with bypass flow rate and duration of assistance, and relative volume density of myofibrils was reduced in the maximum and 90 day bypass groups.

TL;DR: Investigation of the relationship between hemolysis and flow patterns in centrifugal blood pumps revealed that small gaps led to more hemolytic performances and that the backward type vane caused morehemolysis, therefore, the design parameters of centrifugalBlood pumps could affect their hemolytics performances.