Euler characteristic, in mathematics, a number, C, that is a topological characteristic of various classes of geometric figures based only on a relationship between the numbers of vertices (V), edges (E), and faces (F) of a geometric figure.
Pulmonary coagulopathy is a characteristic feature of various forms of lung injury, including acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) [1 4], pneumonia [1, 5, 6], and inhalation trauma [7].
The occurrence of short, direct and inverted repeats and short palindromes is a characteristic feature of various plant satellite families.
Bone resorption by hyperplastic fibrous tissue is a characteristic feature of various disorders, and accumulating evidence suggests that transformed appearing, activated fibroblast-like cells play a key role in the pathogenesis of these conditions.
Tumour hypoxia is described as a characteristic feature of various solid tumours and is believed to promote tumour progression, resistance to therapy and transformation to more aggressive phenotypes (Vaupel and Mayer, 2007; Carmeliet and Jain, 2011).
Cell death, either progressive or acute, is a hallmark characteristic of various cardiac diseases, including heart failure (HF), myocardial infarction (MI), and ischemia/reperfusion (I/R; Figure 1).
Below is a brief characteristic of various clinical and experimental approaches employed currently and in the past to reduce localized fibrotic changes.
Lowered extracellular pH (pHe) is a common characteristic of various solid tumors, including brain tumors, which is caused by the high rate of glycolysis in cancer cells, under both aerobic and anaerobic conditions 53, 54.
'Compensatory pathology' is thus an interesting characteristic of various ataxias, and provides a level of complexity to the study of these neurological disorders.
In the present paper, we describe a novel property characteristic of various stem cells and stem-like cells, namely, their ability to internalize extracellular dsDNA fragments.
