Our immune system is armed with an array of defenses designed to detect and eliminate harmful threats. One of its most powerful defense mechanisms is the complement system—a group of proteins that ...

Non-specific autopsy findings related in part to changes after death, such as congestion and oedema, could affect organ weight but may not provide diagnostic clues towards the mode or cause of death.

Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a disease of the pulmonary ... limitations in exercise tolerance are due to impaired blood flow rather than direct muscle pathology. 46 These data support the notion ...

Until last month, U.S. commuting policy favored half-measures and incremental tweaks to address a scourge of urban America: traffic congestion. Evidence of poor policy was pronounced in NYC ...

The speech-language pathology program at Dalhousie University involves three years of full-time study allotted to course work, clinical practica, and a research project or thesis. The program leads to ...

Teamwork: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Early Lung Cancer: Personalized Care A nurse practitioner with NYU's pulmonary intervention team chronicles the NSCLC patient experience from diagnosis to ...

Blood backing up into the lungs is called pulmonary congestion. When a person sits or stands up, the pulmonary congestion decreases due to gravity, and breathing improves. Dyspnea (shortness of breath ...

Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) officials confirm that the container congestion at the port has been largely resolved, though not entirely eliminated. An SLPA official told Ada Derana that the ...

Figure 1 Liver hemodynamics and histology. The liver receives a dual blood supply from both the hepatic artery and the portal vein. Approximately 20–30% of the liver’s blood supply is derived from the ...

Acacetin (MedChemExpress, molecular weight: 284.26 g/mol), LPS (Sigma, 055:B5, L2880), and Gap27 (MedChemExpress) were used in the experiments. The lung and liver tissues were collected and fixed in a ...