Sentences with word «capillary»

Capillary - based, high - pressure chamber for fluorescence microscopy imaging.

Static mechanical strain induces capillary endothelial cell cycle re-entry and sprouting.

Organ - on - a-chip technology may in part overcome this limitation, as exemplified by the «breathing» lung - on - a-chip that recapitulates the alveolar - capillary interface by co-culturing human alveolar epithelial cells and capillary endothelial cells on opposite sides of a flexible, porous, ECM - coated membrane.

Methods: The researchers used capillary liquid chromatography - mass spectrometry to extensively characterize proteins present in the Salmonella wild - type and mutant strains.

Head group - functionalized poly (ethyleneglycol)-- lipid (PEG — lipid) surface modification for highly selective analyte extractions on capillary - channeled polymer (C - CP) fibers.

Accordingly, studies of human pregnancy at high altitude have reported improved placental vascularisation with increased placental capillary diameter, capillary length and capillary volume [57], [58].

Any technology that displaces capillary electrophoresis of STRs absolutely must provide CODIS profiles.

Armed with this knowledge, the PNNL team hypothesized water was condensing and forming a bridge between the nanorods, through a process known as capillary condensation.

We offer a wide range of services, including capillary sequencing and genotyping, Illumina microarray - based gene expression profiling and genotyping, and next - generation sequencing (NGS).

Each of the endothelial cell lines demonstrated an ability to orient into capillary - like structures when placed onto a Matrigel surface (Fig. 5A) ⇓.

These can take up water from any part of the body through capillary action, whereby water is drawn along a channel, even against the pull of gravity.

In this new study, Zlokovic's team used transgenic mice to show that GLUT1 is necessary to maintain proper brain capillary networks, blood flow and blood - brain barrier integrity.

The ability of the endothelial cells to form capillary - like structures was assessed by placing them on the solubilized basement membrane preparation Matrigel (Becton Dickinson, San Jose, CA), according to the manufacturer's instructions.

MP concentration in plasma was measured using capillary GC / MS (34).

Once a µSCALE user identifies a capillary of interest, the researcher can direct the laser to extract the contents of that tube without disrupting its neighbors, using an ingenious method devised by Baer.

The spiders were so small that the capillary action of the pipettes was often enough to draw venom from the fangs.

In the case of electrons on helium, the system is pure and homogenous, but the surface of liquid helium is nonetheless disturbed by capillary waves — ripples associated with the surface tension and similar to small, circular ripples in a pond when a pebble is tossed into the water.

Researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) have used their own method of «microextraction and capillary electrophoresis» to analyse concentrations of a kind of mycotoxins, patulin, in 19 batches of eight brands of commercial apple juice.

Thus µSCALE empties the contents of a single capillary onto a collector plate, where the DNA of the isolated cell can be sequenced and the gene variant responsible for the protein of interest can be identified.

The slide is roughly the size and thickness of a penny, yet in that space a million capillary tubes are arrayed like straws, open on the top and bottom.

«Capillary plasma jets have a wide range of applications and the length of the plasma jet is an important characteristic parameter.»

«The laser supplies energy to move the beads, which breaks the surface tension and releases the sample from the capillary.»

A software - controlled microscope peers into each capillary and takes images of the biochemical reaction occurring therein.

The equation predicts two regimes for the initial deformation of a droplet: a low - drop - velocity regime in which capillary forces dominate and a high - drop - velocity regime where inertial forces dominate; gravitational forces are insignificant for drops that are a few millimeters in size.

As length of the capillary increases, the energy deposited in the arc channel increases as well, but only up to a point.

This week in Review of Scientific Instruments, from AIP Publishing, a new study examines how the dimensions of the capillary producing the plasma affect the jet's length.

He is an unquestioned leader in separation science, an important branch of analytical chemistry, who is particularly known for his studies of certain separation methods like micellar electrokinetic capillary chromatography, a useful technique for analyzing a wide variety of small molecules.

By varying the length of the capillary chamber, the diameter of the cathode and the length of the cathode tip, the researchers determined the best proportions to generate the longest jet.

Thus, there is an optimum chamber length to maximize the energy density in the capillary chamber.

«Otherwise, capillary action would case the film to buckle or fold when you pick it up.

Capillary discharge plasma jets are those that are created by a large current that passes through a low - density gas in what is called a capillary chamber.

When plasma expands in the capillary chamber due to arc energy heating, plasma ejects from the capillary nozzle forming the plasma jet.

So what exactly are the basic underlying capillary fluidic effects explored by Seon and colleagues?

To do this, the researchers first explored a cost - effective and biocompatible non-Newtonian fluid to create the optimal 3 - D alignment of microgels in the center of a square - shaped glass capillary.

It is the effect that allows insects (such as the water strider) to walk on water, and causes capillary action, for example.

«Retinal capillary leakage should be considered a part of the spectrum of high - altitude retinopathy,» the authors write.

During the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) Meeting, Nov. 23 - 25, 2014, in San Francisco, Calif., Thomas Seon and Elisabeth Ghabache, researchers working for CNRS & UPMC at the Institute d' Alembert, in France, and their colleagues will describe the intricate roles of bubble shape, capillary waves, gravity and liquid properties in bubble - bursting jet dynamics, which form the prelude to aerosols — including unexpected results which should help pave the road to the control of bubble - bursting aerosols and may even find more novel applications such as the fine - tuning of aroma diffusion in champagne or wine.

MECS are produced using a double - capillary device in which the flow rates of three fluids — a carbonate solution combined with a catalyst for enhanced CO2 absorption, a photo - curable silicone that forms the capsule shell, and an aqueous solution — can be independently controlled.

Capillary action wicks water to the algae, and ducts bring in the hot flue gas.

The researchers created methods based on capillary electrophoresis to process soil or ice samples and detect 17 different amino acids simultaneously.

This illustration shows the flow - focusing microfluidic capillary device used to produce the silicone microcapsules.

However, this approach did not account for capillary pressure triggering water to move within pores.

In this study, the authors relied on a simple glass channel which is thin enough to reveal dominant capillary effects — and not just effects linked to waters» fluid nature — that make the water travel along the channel.

«It was a surprising result because the common wisdom was that it was just the sickle cells that block the capillary.»

Among its many desert specializations, one of the strangest is its ability to drink water through its skin, not by absorption but rather capillary action.

NO BARRIER A protein in some cells that form the blood - brain barrier (light blue, as seen in this image of a mouse brain capillary) may have a hand in brain aging, a new study suggests.

Using direct microscopic images, they observed the entire air - water interface throughout the capillary, which they then combined with ultra-precise mass measurements and numerical simulations.

Being so close to the drop interface, which host the thermal capillary waves, enabled recording this thermal motion of water.

Therefore, the authors suggest that vitamin D3 may be of clinical importance in the restoration of dysfunctional cardiac endothelium after heart attack, capillary endothelium after brain ischemia (stroke), hypovolemia, vasculopathy, diabetes and atherosclerosis.

The researchers experimented with what are called «capillary oscillations» in a water droplet.