Extreme hemodilution during cardiopulmonary bypass may cause inadequate oxygen delivery during early cooling. The higher hematocrit with a blood prime is associated with improved cerebral recovery after deep hypothermic circulatory arrest.
Inactivation mechanisms of plasma treated microorganisms are still major subjects. We have developed a biological assay which evaluates in vivo DNA damage of the viruses treated with non‐thermal atmospheric pressure plasma in air. Different doses of the plasma were applied to wet state of λ phage particles under neutral pH and near the room temperature. From each sample of treated λ phages, DNA was purified and subjected to in vitro DNA packaging reactions. Survival curves of the re‐packaged phages showed an extremely large D value (D = 25 s) compared to the previous D value (D = 3 s) obtained from the survival curves of the treated phages. The results indicate the evidence that DNA damage hardly contributed to the inactivation.
Despite recent improvements in microscope technologies, segmenting and tracking cells in three-dimensional time-lapse images (3D + T images) to extract their dynamic positions and activities remains a considerable bottleneck in the field. We developed a deep learning-based software pipeline, 3DeeCellTracker, by integrating multiple existing and new techniques including deep learning for tracking. With only one volume of training data, one initial correction, and a few parameter changes, 3DeeCellTracker successfully segmented and tracked ~100 cells in both semi-immobilized and ‘straightened’ freely moving worm's brain, in a naturally beating zebrafish heart, and ~1000 cells in a 3D cultured tumor spheroid. While these datasets were imaged with highly divergent optical systems, our method tracked 90–100% of the cells in most cases, which is comparable or superior to previous results. These results suggest that 3DeeCellTracker could pave the way for revealing dynamic cell activities in image datasets that have been difficult to analyze.
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