The development of piezoelectric actuation, starting from single-layer materials with the
converse piezoelectric effect, then progressing to multilayer piezo-stack actuators, amplified …

Background : Provisional stenting (PS) is the most common technique used to treat distal
left main (LM) bifurcation lesions in patients with unprotected LM coronary artery disease …

Background: Short-term exposure to ambient air pollution has been linked with daily
hospitalization and mortality from acute coronary syndrome (ACS); however, the associations of …

Patients who experience out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) have unacceptably high mortality
rates. It remains unclear whether gender has an association with survival in this regard. …

Background: Nicorandil prior to reperfusion by primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)
in patients with ST-segment elevated myocardial infarction (STEMI) has been …

Sepsis is a systemic inflammatory response that targets multiple components of the cardiovascular
system including the microvasculature. Microvascular endothelial cells (MVEC) are …

A novel stick-slip type piezoelectric rotary actuator is proposed in this paper. The actuator
equips with a parallelogram driving mechanism to generate a pair of variable force couple to …

Background Recent genome-wide association (GWA) studies in Caucasians identified
multiple single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with coronary artery disease (CAD). …

Nitric oxide produced by inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) contributes importantly to
acute lung injury (ALI), but the specific contribution of neutrophil iNOS has not been defined. …

A novel inchworm type piezoelectric rotary actuator based on wedge block clamping is
presented in this paper. With the help of only one piezo-stack and two clamping blocks, the …