{"title":"Segmental neogenesis of the dog esophagus utilizing a biodegradable polymer framework.","authors":"M F Grower, E A Russell, D E Cutright","doi":"10.3109/10731198909118286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3109/10731198909118286","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study evaluated the ability of biodegradable implants fabricated from polymers and co-polymers of polylactic acid (PLA) and polyglycolic acid (PGA) to induce regeneration of surgically created defects in the dog esophagus. The study utilized 12 mongrel dogs that had a 5 cm segment of the esophagus removed. Implants were fabricated by spray casting the polymers on a spinning Teflon mandril. The defects were repaired by suturing the biodegradable implants to the proximal and distal ends of the esophagus. Ten of the dogs were sacrificed from 3 days to 8 weeks after surgery while 1 of the dogs died after 3 years and 1 dog was sacrificed 4 years after graft placement. Endoscopic and histologic examination of the grafts 3 days after placement showed minimal inflammatory response and an apparent seal between the esophagus and implant at the suture lines. Two weeks after surgery a fibrous connective tissue sheath, continuous with the proximal and distal segments of the esophagus, could be seen surrounding the graft. One month after placement, the implants were partially degraded leaving a connective tissue repair continuous with the proximal and distal ends of the esophagus. The repair area was lined with epithelium and enabled the dogs to drink freely and eat semisolid foods. In conclusion, it has been shown that it is possible to fabricate a biodegradable implant which can stimulate regeneration of a hollow organ and which is compatible with long term survival.</p>","PeriodicalId":77498,"journal":{"name":"Biomaterials, artificial cells, and artificial organs","volume":"17 3","pages":"291-314"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3109/10731198909118286","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13697890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Immobilization of P. pictorum in open pore agar, alginate and polylysine-alginate microcapsules for serum cholesterol depletion.","authors":"F A Garofalo, T M Chang","doi":"10.3109/10731198909118285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3109/10731198909118285","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>P. pictorum depletes serum cholesterol levels upon induction of the involved enzymes. Analysis of the fermentation broth shows cholesterol esterase and cholesterol oxidase activity. P. pictorum was immobilized in alginate beads, polylysine microcapsules and open pore agar beads. The pore size of the former two was too small to allow a barrier free mass transfer of lipoproteins. However, open pore agar beads depleted serum cholesterol. The rates of depletion were similar to those of free P. pictorum, suggesting a barrier free mass transfer. Furthermore, open pore agar beads could effectively retain P. pictorum, and no leakage was detected.</p>","PeriodicalId":77498,"journal":{"name":"Biomaterials, artificial cells, and artificial organs","volume":"17 3","pages":"271-89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3109/10731198909118285","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13957970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Oxidative interactions between hemoglobin and egg lecithin liposomes.","authors":"W S Pietrzak, I F Miller","doi":"10.3109/10731198909117637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3109/10731198909117637","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The oxidative interaction between hemoglobin and unsaturated egg lecithin liposomes, characterized by the consumption of oxygen and the production of methemoglobin over time, was measured and modelled. The oxygen and methemoglobin profiles were fit by a mathematical model, using numerical integration techniques. From the model, it was determined that the catalytic rate constants for the effect of hemoglobin on lipid peroxidation varied with hemoglobin type, as deoxyhemoglobin greater than oxyhemoglobin = methemoglobin. Under in vivo conditions of oxygen tension, reaction rates were oxyhemoglobin greater than deoxyhemoglobin greater than methemoglobin. Vitamin E had about 35 times the antioxidant activity of cholesterol, as determined by the model. Both additives, together, appeared to stabilize the liposomal membrane, as manifested by their ability to prevent oxidation of approximately 95% of the available lipid.</p>","PeriodicalId":77498,"journal":{"name":"Biomaterials, artificial cells, and artificial organs","volume":"17 5","pages":"563-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3109/10731198909117637","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13769804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design for an ultrasound-based instrument for measurement of tissue blood flow.","authors":"S M Burns, M H Reid","doi":"10.3109/10731198909118269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3109/10731198909118269","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Quantitative measurement of tissue blood flow is of importance for many reasons: detection of capillary flow disturbances, evaluating indications for amputation, investigating vasospastic conditions, and evaluating vasoactive drugs or the effect of sympathectomy. Methods of investigating tissue blood flows include skin thermometry, thermal conductance or clearance, transcutaneous PO2, laser doppler flux, and photoplethysmographic techniques. A major reason that ultrasound has not previously been applied to this problem is that at the very low blood velocities in the capillaries (0.1 to 1 mm/sec) the Doppler shift is small (on the order of 1 Hz/MHz of carrier signal). Advantages of ultrasound are a noninvasive procedure and penetration depths greater than that possible with optical techniques. This paper discusses the development of a Doppler ultrasound instrument which allows spectral resolution of the velocities in tissue blood flow. Briefly, a low phase noise oscillator at 7.5 Mhz is used with two transducers to obtain the shifted signal. After mixing with the fundamental, the resulting low frequency signal is fed into a high resolution spectrum analyzer for analysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":77498,"journal":{"name":"Biomaterials, artificial cells, and artificial organs","volume":"17 1","pages":"61-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3109/10731198909118269","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13813833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Polymer resins with amino acid containing pendants for sorption of bilirubin. IV. Site binding constants.","authors":"S D Clas, D S Henning, G R Brown, L E St-Pierre","doi":"10.3109/10731198909118275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3109/10731198909118275","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Site binding constants, calculated for the adsorption of bilirubin onto various lysine, arginine, or histidine containing oligopeptide-resins assuming either a one or two site binding model, are of the order of 10(4) M-1. Using these data it can be shown that there are positive cooperative effects for lysine-containing pendants, while arginine-containing pendants eventually result in negative cooperative behaviour. This difference in behaviour has been attributed to the difference in the side groups in the arginine and lysine pendants and is discussed in terms of the basicity of the amino acids, accessibility to the sites as a consequence of the flexibility or rigidity of the side group, and in terms of pi-pi electron interactions, where applicable.</p>","PeriodicalId":77498,"journal":{"name":"Biomaterials, artificial cells, and artificial organs","volume":"17 2","pages":"137-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3109/10731198909118275","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13916144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hydrodynamic instability of \"stroma-free\" hemoglobin.","authors":"T I Pristoupil, M Kramlová, T Marík","doi":"10.3109/10731198909118289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3109/10731198909118289","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A simple kinetic test with visual observation of hemoglobin solutions under 4 - 10x magnification was used to detect and roughly characterize a rapid formation of fine fibrous inhomogeneities in agitated \"stroma-free\" hemolyzates (SFH). In parallel SFH samples stored motionless for months, no such precipitate was observed. Hydrodynamic conditions are necessary to provoke a stepwise aggregation of small amounts of unstable filamentous nonhemoglobin molecules originating mostly from the stromata of erythrocytes and from constituents of other lysed blood cells. Numerous screening experiments mentioned here failed to remove significantly the \"fiber-forming\" substances from SFH or to prevent their precipitation. Development of a hydrodynamically stable and better purified SFH seems to be a prerequisite for further progress in the field of infusable SFH and its chemically modified variants (MSFH).</p>","PeriodicalId":77498,"journal":{"name":"Biomaterials, artificial cells, and artificial organs","volume":"17 3","pages":"335-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3109/10731198909118289","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13957972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"International Symposium on Red Cell Substitutes. 16-19 May 1989, San Francisco, California. Abstracts.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77498,"journal":{"name":"Biomaterials, artificial cells, and artificial organs","volume":"17 5","pages":"617-705"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13769808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stress analysis of a total hip acetabular component: an FEM study.","authors":"D S Burton, H B Skinner, M Eng","doi":"10.3109/10731198909118852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3109/10731198909118852","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A stress analysis of a total hip acetabular component was performed using three-dimensional finite element modeling. The model consisted of 548 four-noded quadrilateral shell elements with 582 nodes. A worst-case support condition was assumed in which bony contact with small areas of the ilium, ischium, and pubis was represented by three-point support. Loads corresponding to the peak pressures developed in the hip when rising from a seated position--the activity contributing most to the fatigue of a prosthesis--were applied to the model. Peak stresses of 490 MPa are predicted around a screw hole in the region of greatest loading; according to the fatigue curve for porous-coated Ti-6Al-4V alloy, this translates into a component life of three years. When the area of bony support for the prosthesis is increased by a factor of 1.5, the fatigue life is more than doubled to seven years. The addition of restraints around the loaded hole to represent the placement of a screw extends the lifetime dramatically to 65 years. Substituting the material properties of cobalt-chromium alloy increases the predicted lifetime of the component to twelve years. We conclude that poor bone support can compromise the service life of titanium alloy acetabular components. Furthermore, we suggest that screw fixation be used to secure the prosthesis in the anterior-superior region if the prosthesis is not well supported by bone in the acetabulum.</p>","PeriodicalId":77498,"journal":{"name":"Biomaterials, artificial cells, and artificial organs","volume":"17 4","pages":"371-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3109/10731198909118852","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13748274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bunched and dispersed carbon fiber adsorbents for dextoxication.","authors":"L I Fridman","doi":"10.3109/10731198909118264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3109/10731198909118264","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"Actilen\" and \"Vaulen\" carbon fiber adsorbents in bunched, stapled and dispersed form for haemosorption, topical application and enterosorption have been developed. The sorbents possess homogeneously porous structure and chemically active surface which may be controlled in the process of material synthesis. Fiberous sorbents have stood toxicological trials and are now approved for clinical application. \"Vaulen\" enterosorbent developed by Leningrad Institute of Man-made Fibers and Composite Materials, Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of White Russian Academy of Sciences, Military Medical Academy and White Russian Scientific Research Sanitary Institute is recommended by the Pharmacological Committee of Soviet Ministry of Public Health to be ready for clinical application. Actilen carbon fiber adsorbent for haemosorption and topical application therapy was awarded a gold medal at the 1984 Leipzig Fair.</p>","PeriodicalId":77498,"journal":{"name":"Biomaterials, artificial cells, and artificial organs","volume":"17 1","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3109/10731198909118264","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13914411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Life forms protectable as subjects of U.S. patents -- microbes to animals (perhaps).","authors":"D S Hodgins","doi":"10.3109/10731198909118281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3109/10731198909118281","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Scientists, businessmen, universities and industries with fundamental or peripheral interests in technology as applied to life processes will be keenly interested in recent U.S. Patent Office decisions. These decisions indicate that new higher life forms, animal or plant, are proper subjects of patents if they are not naturally occurring (and are not human in the case of animals). In contrast to plants and other organisms, genetically modified animals have had no mode of protection as intellectual property except possibly as a trade secret or utility patent. The Ex parte Allen decision, reached by the Patent Office Board of Appeals and Interferences, directly addressed the issue of animal patentability in view of the broad reading of 35 U.S.C. section 101 by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Chakrabarty decision. The subject invention concerned polyploid oysters. Claims directed toward polyploid oysters produced by a particular process were rejected under 35 U.S.C. section 103 and section 101. The Board, reversing the 35 U.S.C. section 101 - based rejection in view of the Chakrabarty decision, indicated that the claimed polyploid oysters were non-naturally occurring manufactures or compositions of matter within the confines of patentable subject matter under 35 U.S.C. section 101. A similar decision affecting the patentable status of plants or segments thereof had previously been reached by the Patent and Trademark Office in the case of Ex parte Hibberd, 227 U.S.P.Q. 443 (Bd. Pat. App. 1985). The Hibberd utility patent application concerned \"genetically engineered\" maize which had high levels of the tryptophan.</p>","PeriodicalId":77498,"journal":{"name":"Biomaterials, artificial cells, and artificial organs","volume":"17 2","pages":"205-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3109/10731198909118281","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13916060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}