We propose that, rather than functioning as the primary hemolymph pump, abdominal contractions allow the heart to extend the length and frequency of anterograde heart contraction periods.
Until the ads returned Dr. Jarvik to the national stage, he had quietly spent much of the last two decades in his Manhattan apartment and a Midtown workshop, refining a device meant to extend the lives of heart failure patients.
This year, thanks to the skating rink, the festivities are likely to extend to the heart of Red Square as well.
Yet despite these achievements, its activities did not extend into the heart of the rich world.That is now changing.
As she discovered first hand, ludicrous, patronizing preconceptions about Asians and Asian-Americans still extend to the heart of America's popular myth-making machine.
Iran's tentacles extend into the heart of the Iraqi political establishment, starting with the prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, once a sheltered exile on Iranian soil and an advocate of close fraternal ties.
These results extend to the heart previous findings suggesting that resuscitation is needed for HS-induced liver, small intestine and lung apoptosis [19], [20] and suggest that interventions initiated at the start of resuscitation have the potential to prevent cardiomyocyte apoptosis along with HCC.
The concept of RIC quickly evolved to extend beyond the heart, encompassing inter-organ protection against acute IRI.
Because collagen is the primary extracellular matrix protein in the heart, we hypothesized that micromolded gelatin hydrogel substrates tuned to mimic the elastic modulus of the heart would extend the lifetime of engineered cardiac tissues by better matching the native chemical and mechanical microenvironment.
The findings extend the known benefits for heart patients of taking aspirin at least every other day, which previous studies have shown can reduce the risk of heart attack and the short-term risk of death in heart attack sufferers, said the authors, who were led by Dr. Patricia Gum of the Cleveland Clinic.
