Stem cells are not only units of biological organization,responsible for the development and the regeneration oftissue and organ systems, but also are units in evolution bynatural selection. It is accepted that there ...Stem cells are not only units of biological organization,responsible for the development and the regeneration oftissue and organ systems, but also are units in evolution bynatural selection. It is accepted that there is stem cellpotential in the liver. Like most organs in a healthy adult,the liver maintains a perfect balance between cell gain andloss. It has three levels of cells that can respond to loss ofhepatocytes: (1) Mature hepatocytes, which proliferate afternormal liver tissue renewal, less severe liver damage, etc;they are numerous, unipotent, 'committed' and respondrapidly to liver injury. (2) Oval cells, which are activated toproliferate when the liver damage is extensive and chronic,or if proliferation of hepatocytes is inhibited; they lie withinor immediately adjacent tothe canal of Hering (CoH); theyare less numerous, bipotent and respond by longer, but stilllimited proliferation. (3) Exogenous liver stem cells, whichmay derive from circulating hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs)or bone marrow stem cells; they respond to allyl alcoholinjury or hepatocarcinogenesis; they are multipotent, rare,but have a very long proliferation potential. They make amore significant contribution to regeneration, and evencompletely restore normal function in a murine model ofhereditary tyrosinaemia. How these three stem cellpopulations integrate to achieve a homeostatic balanceremains enigmatic. This review focuses on the location,activation, markers of the three candidates of liver stemcell, and the most importantly, therapeutic potential ofhepatic stem cells.展开更多
Purpose: To explore the effect of external approach microsurgery in retinal dialysis.Methods: Consecutive 30 eyes of 28 patients with retinal dialysis were enrolled for this study. The progresses of the external appro...Purpose: To explore the effect of external approach microsurgery in retinal dialysis.Methods: Consecutive 30 eyes of 28 patients with retinal dialysis were enrolled for this study. The progresses of the external approach microsurgery were following. Under the surgical microscopy, the preplacement of mattress sutures for buckling and/or encircling following retrobulbar anesthesia and scleral exposure, draining subretinal fluid, the cryotherapy of retinal breaks, checking the position of breaks on scleral buckle and gases injection were performed in turn.Results: After drainage of subretinal fluid, with scleral depression cryotherapy reaction around breaks could be observed clearly under the microscopy. All breaks were located on anterior slope of the buckle. Intraoperative complications were mild subretinal hemorrhage at drainage site and corneal epithelium exfoliation in 3 eyes, respectively.Postoperative complications were mainly secondary glaucoma and retinal redetachment.The one-operation reattachmentl rate was 96.7% (29 eyes), and the final reattachment rate was 100% after one eye had a second external approach microsurgery. The postoperative vision acuity (VA) was significantly better than the preoperative VA (X2=9.529, P＜ 0.01).Conclusion: External approach microsurgery has favourable effect on the surgery of retinal dialysis.展开更多
An adaptive neural network controller is developed to achieve output-tracking of a class of nonlinear systems. The global L 2 stability of the closed-loop system is established. The proposed control design overcomes t...An adaptive neural network controller is developed to achieve output-tracking of a class of nonlinear systems. The global L 2 stability of the closed-loop system is established. The proposed control design overcomes the limitation of the conventional adaptive neural control design where the modeling error brought by neural networks is assumed to be bounded over a compact set. Moreover, the generalized matching conditions are also relaxed in the proposed L 2 control design as the gains for the external disturbances entering the system are allowed to have unknown upper bounds.展开更多
文摘Stem cells are not only units of biological organization,responsible for the development and the regeneration oftissue and organ systems, but also are units in evolution bynatural selection. It is accepted that there is stem cellpotential in the liver. Like most organs in a healthy adult,the liver maintains a perfect balance between cell gain andloss. It has three levels of cells that can respond to loss ofhepatocytes: (1) Mature hepatocytes, which proliferate afternormal liver tissue renewal, less severe liver damage, etc;they are numerous, unipotent, 'committed' and respondrapidly to liver injury. (2) Oval cells, which are activated toproliferate when the liver damage is extensive and chronic,or if proliferation of hepatocytes is inhibited; they lie withinor immediately adjacent tothe canal of Hering (CoH); theyare less numerous, bipotent and respond by longer, but stilllimited proliferation. (3) Exogenous liver stem cells, whichmay derive from circulating hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs)or bone marrow stem cells; they respond to allyl alcoholinjury or hepatocarcinogenesis; they are multipotent, rare,but have a very long proliferation potential. They make amore significant contribution to regeneration, and evencompletely restore normal function in a murine model ofhereditary tyrosinaemia. How these three stem cellpopulations integrate to achieve a homeostatic balanceremains enigmatic. This review focuses on the location,activation, markers of the three candidates of liver stemcell, and the most importantly, therapeutic potential ofhepatic stem cells.
文摘Purpose: To explore the effect of external approach microsurgery in retinal dialysis.Methods: Consecutive 30 eyes of 28 patients with retinal dialysis were enrolled for this study. The progresses of the external approach microsurgery were following. Under the surgical microscopy, the preplacement of mattress sutures for buckling and/or encircling following retrobulbar anesthesia and scleral exposure, draining subretinal fluid, the cryotherapy of retinal breaks, checking the position of breaks on scleral buckle and gases injection were performed in turn.Results: After drainage of subretinal fluid, with scleral depression cryotherapy reaction around breaks could be observed clearly under the microscopy. All breaks were located on anterior slope of the buckle. Intraoperative complications were mild subretinal hemorrhage at drainage site and corneal epithelium exfoliation in 3 eyes, respectively.Postoperative complications were mainly secondary glaucoma and retinal redetachment.The one-operation reattachmentl rate was 96.7% (29 eyes), and the final reattachment rate was 100% after one eye had a second external approach microsurgery. The postoperative vision acuity (VA) was significantly better than the preoperative VA (X2=9.529, P＜ 0.01).Conclusion: External approach microsurgery has favourable effect on the surgery of retinal dialysis.
文摘An adaptive neural network controller is developed to achieve output-tracking of a class of nonlinear systems. The global L 2 stability of the closed-loop system is established. The proposed control design overcomes the limitation of the conventional adaptive neural control design where the modeling error brought by neural networks is assumed to be bounded over a compact set. Moreover, the generalized matching conditions are also relaxed in the proposed L 2 control design as the gains for the external disturbances entering the system are allowed to have unknown upper bounds.
