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Therapeutic potential of stem cell in liver regeneration
- Jinzheng Li,
- Min Li,
- Bolin Niu,
- Jianping Gong
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Liver transplantation is the only life-saving procedure for patients with end-stage liver disease. However, its potential benefits are hampered by many disadvantages, such as the relative shortage of donors, operative risks, and high costs. These issues have prompted the search for new alternative therapies for irreversible liver disease. Stem cell therapy, with the ability for self-renewal and potential for multilineage differentiation, is a promising alternative approach. Several studies have demonstrated that transplantation of hepatic stem/progenitor cells or hepatocyte-like cells derived from multipotent stem cells leads to donor cell-mediated repopulation of the liver and improved survival rates in experimental models of liver disease. However, a registered clinical application based on stem cell technology will take at least an additional 5 to 10 years because of some limitations; e.g. the lack of suitable cell sources and risk of teratoma formation. This review summarizes the general understanding of the therapeutic potentials of stem cells in liver disease, including the sources, mechanisms, and delivery methods of hepatic stem cells in liver regeneration, and discusses some challenges for their therapeutic application.
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- Title
- Therapeutic potential of stem cell in liver regeneration
- Journal
Frontiers of Medicine
Volume 5, Issue 1 , pp 26-32
- Cover Date
- 2011-03-01
- 10.1007/s11684-011-0107-0
- Print ISSN
- 2095-0217
- Online ISSN
- 2095-0225
- Publisher
- SP Higher Education Press
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- stem cell
- liver disease
- regenerative medicine
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Jinzheng Li (1)
- Min Li (1)
- Bolin Niu (1)
- Jianping Gong (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Chongqing Key Laboratory of Hepatobiliary Surgery and Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Second Affiliated Hospital, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400010, China


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SEAT Toledo htachback offers so much versatility at a remarkably low sticker price.
By Matt Joy, PA motoring editor
Saturday, January 26, 2013
SEAT's new Toledo is big on versatility and value making it a true bargain buy, says Matt Joy, PA motoring editor.
Price: £14,120 (range £12,495 to £17,840)
Engine: 1.2-litre, 84bhp, four-cylinder turbo petrol
Transmission: Five-speed manual gearbox driving front wheels
Performance: 0-62mph 11.8 seconds; top speed 114mph
Economy: 55.4mpg combined
CO2 emissions: 119g/km
There are no bargains any more, at least conventional wisdom would have you believe. For whatever reason – maybe branding, possibly rules and regulations – the notion of a properly inexpensive product is loaded with the baggage of poverty. It seems idiotic that we consumers would pay more so we can feel better about ourselves.
But maybe the tide is beginning to turn. There's a new SEAT that could represent the bargain of the year. We'll talk about price later; in the meantime there are plenty of other reasons to give it a look.
This is the fourth-generation Toledo and in some ways follows on from the previous model in that it has the outward appearance of a saloon but actually hides the utility of a hatchback within its silhouette. If that sounds like a contrivance then don't worry yourself – you get to park a solid and understatedly-handsome design on your driveway.
There's an obvious family relationship with the Ibiza that is more than skin deep, but the Toledo is significantly longer than its supermini sister and, as well as adding space inside, it gives the car a little more presence and purpose. You'll want to choose one of the higher-spec SE models that come with alloy wheels as standard for the best look, but S models and above have the body-coloured door handles and mirrors which make a big difference too.
On the inside the theme of affordable comfort continues. It's a subtle thing, but the mixing of grey and light brown trim in the cabin gives it a classy feel, and being a SEAT you expect and get a certain standard of quality. There's a balance to be struck between keeping the sticker price down and the ultimate in luxury, but in the Toledo you feel like that balance has been well-struck. It's laid out with customary clarity and the precision of the switches, the instrument graphics and the way everything operates is very reassuring. There's no hint of the bargain about it.
It's only when you venture out of the driver's seat that you begin to realise the Toledo's ace card. The modest stretch in length has freed up some significant room for rear-seat passengers, making the Toledo a genuine car you can pile adults into the back of without getting any complaints. Behind that is the boot which, thanks to that hatch-like arrangement offers up 550 litres of space with the seats in place and 1,490 litres with them folded. To put that into context, that's more than the Exeo ST and the Altea XL, only the latter beating the Toledo when measured with the seats down. It's a vast space, well-shaped too and it's hard to underestimate the value of packing this much space into such a compact car. Once you've had it you won't want to go back.
The driving experience comes straight out of the standard SEAT textbook. With a mechanical legacy from the Ibiza it's no surprise that the Toledo drives with the same slickness and composure.
There's a broad choice of engines and although the 1.6-litre diesel might seem like the sensible default option there is that initial extra outlay to cover. On the other hand, you can have the 1.2-litre TSI unit in two outputs for significantly less. The 84bhp version tested here is a sweet little unit and with the turbocharger boosting the torque it feels more than sufficient.
The same can be said for the ride and handling. There's no FR option for the Toledo so you get a more comfort-biased suspension set-up that suits its likely roles. For a car of this size it does a fine job of staying controlled over uneven road surfaces and occupants will only be disturbed by the worst bumps. The steering communicates well and there is more than enough grip to cope with what most drivers could ask of it.
There's a chance that the svelte Ibiza and the larger, more glamorous new Leon could overshadow the Toledo, and that would be a shame because it offers so much versatility in a compact shell and does so at a remarkably low sticker price. Small estates and larger hatchbacks should watch out – the Toledo deserves to steal sales from them all.
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Prevention of serious respiratory syncytial virus-related illness. II: Immunoprophylaxis
- Jessie R. Groothuis,
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- Val G. Hemming
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Washington, D.C. – September 4, 2013 – More than 48.9 million Americans lived in households struggling against hunger in 2012, according to new data released today by the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in its annual report on food insecurity in the U.S. Of them, 15.8 million are children (21.6 percent of all children). Previously, in 2011, 50.1 million Americans were in food insecure households.
While the new data show a slight dip in the number of people living in food insecure households, the USDA report noted that the overall rate of food insecurity has remained virtually unchanged since 2008. The number of people living in households with very low food security – the worst off households – increased slightly, rising from 16.8 million in 2011 to 17.1 million in 2012.
Essentially food insecurity spiked at the beginning of the recession, and has stayed elevated ever since. From 2003 to 2007, the annual number of people in food insecure households was in a range of 35.1 million to 38.2 million people. From 2008 to 2012, the range has been 48.8 million to 50.2 million people.
"Hunger was too prevalent before the recession, and these elevated rates continue to plague virtually every community in America. Yet Congress continues to consider outrageous proposals that would add to these numbers," said FRAC President Jim Weill. "Congress needs to stop a bidding war over how much to cut from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and other low-income programs and start acting on what is going to help struggling, hungry families. And the first step is for Congress to pass a Farm Bill that doesn't cut SNAP."
These new food insecurity numbers come as Members of Congress are preparing to return next week from their August recess. The Farm Bill remains on Congress' agenda, and the House majority leadership – which passed earlier this summer a partial Farm Bill that did not include a nutrition title – is expected to introduce a bill that would strip $40 billion in funding from SNAP (formerly known as food stamps), throwing millions of people out of the program and cutting benefits for many others.
These proposals come on top of cuts already scheduled to inflict pain on every SNAP beneficiary. In November, benefit increases approved in the 2009 economic recovery act will expire for 47 million people – this will mean $36 less in monthly SNAP benefits for a family of four.
The public rejects cuts in SNAP. Recent polling by Hart Research Associates for FRAC shows that Americans of all types oppose cuts to SNAP, and they believe the government should – and must – do more to address hunger.
Current SNAP monthly benefits average the equivalent of $4.50 a day per person – an inadequate level that barely gets families through the whole month, let alone allows them to buy the foods needed for a healthy diet. Recently, the prestigious Institute of Medicine, after a thorough study, outlined the factors that explain why the SNAP allotment is not enough to help most families obtain a minimally adequate diet.
"SNAP is helping many struggling households keep their heads above water. Cutting SNAP would lead to more hunger, worse health and education outcomes, and higher health costs. Fraying our nation's safety net is the wrong path for Congress to take. It must pass a Farm Bill that helps – not harms – our nation's hungry and struggling families," said Weill.
Visit FRAC's website at www.frac.org for ongoing analysis.
About the USDA Report
Since 1995, the United States Department of Agriculture, using data from surveys conducted annually by the Census Bureau, has released national and state estimates of the number of people in households that are food insecure. Food insecure households are those that are not able to afford an adequate diet at all times in the past 12 months. For states, USDA uses three-year averages to give a better estimate (with a smaller margin of error) of the number of households experiencing food insecurity. Experts agree that the Census/USDA measure of food insecurity is a conservative one, with the result that only households experiencing substantial food insecurity are so classified.


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Students applying for Federal financial aid for the summer must complete a "Summer Aid Request Form" and fill out both a 2013-2014 and a 2014-2015 FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Financial Aid) at www.FAFSA.ed.gov If selected for verification, required documentation should be submitted to either the Financial Aid office in Middletown or Newburgh.
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"Twenty years ago, seat belts were optional, too."
The Cleveland Clinic took a more sophisticated approach that included "on-field traumatic neuromechanics injury risk parameters" like angular acceleration, angular velocity, acute subdural hematoma and brain contusion. Angular acceleration (sometimes called rotational acceleration) typically occurs when a player is hit on the side of the head, resulting in rapid turning of the head and neck. Rotational acceleration can be devastating, stretching and even shredding brain tissue.
The researchers gathered 11 helmets from four manufacturers, including the Riddell VSR-4, the league's most popular helmet, and tested them against two leatherhead helmets from the 1920s. Each was subjected to multiple impacts, from multiple directions, using a pendulum calibrated to deliver blows in the range of 95 to 99 percent of hits on the field. Data captured by accelerometers and angular velocity sensors was fed to a computer running the SIMon Model (.pdf), a 3-D skull and brain with white-gray matter, bridging veins and more than 10,000 nodes — essentially a digitized neurosystem. The results were stunning.
"In many instances the head impact doses and head injury risks while wearing vintage leatherheads were comparable to or better than those while wearing several widely used 21st-century varsity helmets," the researchers said in a study published in November in The Journal of Neurosurgery. "These findings were in stark contrast to those in published works touting the 10 to 20 percent lower risks and 31 percent decreased relative risk of concussion when using 21st-century varsity helmets in comparable dose on-field impacts."
The lines of the graphs mapping the angular impact response data from leading-edge helmets and vintage leatherheads sync almost perfectly.
Even if Kevlar does protect the player wearing it, it could exacerbate the risk for players who aren't.
"To use an analogy, what we're doing is really akin to a crash test with a Model T versus a 2012 BMW," said lead researcher Adam Bartsch. "You would absolutely expect that with any safety parameter, any way you slice it, it wouldn't even be close. And yet we found that at common impact severities, there really wasn't much difference. It's not that the leather helmets were protecting, it's that none of the helmets were protecting." (Riddell did not respond to requests for comment.)
Although Bartsch believes the NFL and helmet manufacturers are placing enormous emphasis on concussion prevention, they must completely rethink the basic engineering involved. Helmets, he said, are optimized for protecting the skull, not necessarily the brain.
"I think we'd be wise to take a step back and ask a fundamental question," he said. "Let's imagine that today we don't have any football helmets and we have to design one from scratch. How can we take an egg and throw it against the wall and design a protective enclosure that not only protects the shell from cracking, but also protects the yolk from being scrambled? That's an engineering problem that I don't think is solved by the current polycarbonate hard shell with interior padding."
Biomechanic tests on hockey helmets performed by the Southern Impact Research Center are even more startling. The NHL does not require testing helmets to the NOCSAE standard, so Vito sent a CCM Vector helmet, a model popular in both youth and pro hockey, to Southern Impact for testing. The helmet failed the NOCSAE test, although one fitted with Exo Skeleton CRT pads passed. A blow to the top of the standard helmet produced a Severity Index of 1397, well above the 1200 threshold for protecting against concussion. (The NHL did not respond to multiple requests for comment.) Unequal Technologies claims its pads provide up to a 50 percent reduction in severity index.
But the NOCSAE test deals with linear acceleration. Can Kevlar help with angular acceleration, which is the real problem?
"It's the jiggle of the brain inside the skull that causes a concussion," said Tator, the Toronto brain surgeon and head of the Canadian Sports Concussion Project. "I don't see how putting a piece of Kevlar in a helmet can prevent the jiggle or the rotational acceleration. It doesn't seem biomechanically sound. Piling on material inside the helmet is going to do nothing."
Even if Kevlar does protect the player wearing it, it could exacerbate the risk for players who aren't.
Last season, during a broken play late in the fourth quarter of the Steelers-Cleveland Browns matchup, Harrison launched himself into Browns quarterback Colt McCoy. The crown of his Kevlar-lined helmet drove squarely into McCoy's facemask, a hit so brutal the referee behind McCoy winced. McCoy writhed on the sod for a minute or two, then retreated to the sidelines. Two plays later, he was back in the game. The following day, he admitted having no recollection of the game after being hit. He was promptly diagnosed with a concussion and missed the remainder of the season.
No one can say for sure that Harrison's Kevlar helmet increased the severity of his hit or of McCoy's concussion. But the question is obvious: What happens when a Humvee smashes into a Volvo.


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If your serious about maintaining your bike by yourself, you'll need this. Since I have the stand, repairing and maintaining the bike it's easier than before. I love this stand, very simple to use, good quality and great to storage. It is the entry level but don't be fooled by this. Adjusting the derailleurs had been a walk in the park, you shift and adjust, very simple. No more back pain.
Your back will thank you
If you usually do your mechanical work at home and don't have a mechanic stand, this is the stand to get. This is the entry level stand. The stand is adjustable in height, and the arm can be rotated for more comfort. It is also very easy to carry and store. The quick release clamps are very useful and easy to set-up. It sure doesn't feel like the weight is 23 lbs, but the tool is very sturdy. Easy to assemble.
Make sure to put a rag on the main clamp so it doesn't scratch your bike. Also, make sure you tighten the quick release clamps.
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Your basic stand
This is your entry level basic stand. The quality is good enough for everyday home usage. The clamping mechanism is the "screw-in" type and wont be the same as those you see used in bike shops. This clamp is not upgradable. Holding the bike up and getting the clamp tightened takes a bit of time. The stand is study; but is heavy. The legs fold up, but the clamping arm doesn't, so dont expect it to fold into a small package.
Overall, a good stand for those who will occasionally use it for basic maintenance. If you plan to work on your bike on a daily basis, consider a stand with a different clamping mechanism
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Jo here! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season. I'm Pasko'ed-out! As you can imagine, the holiday season has been really busy for the team, so I want to apologize for our lack of posts as of late.
The team is taking the opportunity to catch our breaths in January. 2011 was ridiculous! What we accomplished last year is something to be proud of and we want to do the same in 2012. Well…kinda…
While we want to bring Filipino food to the masses, we want to in new ways. The economy (and Christmas shopping) hasn't been too friendly to our wallets, so we want to host events that are low and/or no-cost. We will also try to make it out to community events so we can meet you all!
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ISRN Meteorology
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 625318, 7 pages
Research Article
Influence of Stratospheric Intrusion on the Surface Ozone Levels in India
Department of Physics, St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad 380009, India
Received 5 April 2012; Accepted 21 June 2012
Academic Editors: S. Iizuka, N. A. Mazzeo, and D. Moreira
Copyright © 2012 Nandita D. Ganguly. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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BART: We've got some custom jobs for pieces here and there. A couple big design studios have asked us if they can just purchase the "Scrapile" wood off us, so they can create their own designs from it.
CARLOS. But the problem is then we can't control what happens to the wood. They wouldn't give us credit, and who knows how the wood would end up being used.
BART: Yeah, it puts us in a weird position, because we make this material, but also design furniture.


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The First Four Minutes From Sci-Fi Comedy IRON SKY
In 1945 the Nazis went to the Moon. In 2018 they are coming back! Check out the first four minutes from the moon Nazi sci-fi comedy Iron Sky.
In the last moments of World War II, a secret Nazi space program evaded destruction by fleeing to the Dark Side of the Moon. During 70 years of utter secrecy, the Nazis construct a gigantic space fortress with a massive armada of flying saucers.
When American astronaut James Washington (Christopher Kirby) puts down his Lunar Lander a bit too close to the secret Nazi base, the Moon Führer (Udo Kier) decides the glorious moment of retaking the Earth has arrived sooner than expected. Washington claims the mission is just a publicity stunt for the President of the United States (Stephanie Paul), but what else could the man be but a scout for the imminent attack by Earth forces? The Fourth Reich must act!
Two Nazi officers, ruthless Klaus Adler (Götz Otto) and idealistic Renate Richter (Julia Dietze), travel to Earth to prepare the invasion. In the end when the Moon Nazi UFO armada darkens the skies, ready to strike at the unprepared Earth, every man, woman and nation alike, must re-evaluate their priorities.
To see the first Iron Sky trailer click here
Iron Sky is directed by Timo Vuorensola and stars Julia Dietze, Christopher Kirby, Götz Otto, Tilo Prückner, Peta Sergeant, Stephanie Paul, Udo Kier and Kym Jackson. The film will be released in theaters in the UK and Finland on April 4th, 2012. and in US sometime this year.
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