Tässä työssä tavoitteena oli selvittää lääkeaineiden esiintyminen ja poistuminen urbaanin hydrologisen kierron aikana todellisessa pienen mittakaavan ympäristössä. Lääkeaineiden tutkimus jätevesissä ja ympäristössä on ...

In this thesis, a method and system capable of intraoperative cancer margin detection, with potential to improve the current methodology, is introduced, tested and validated. The system is based on diathermy smoke analysis ...

Tissue-engineered scaffolds should mimic, as closely as possible, the one of the tissues to be replaced. Hence, mechanical tests are of paramount importance. However, as there are various biomaterials, with distinct ...

The aim of this Master’s Thesis was to evaluate and develope ultrasound imaging methods in veterinary clinics. Ultrasound is a beneficial imaging method in many ways and it is widely used in the field of veterinary medicine. ...

Mechanotransduction is the process of mechanical information transfer between a cell and its surroundings into biochemical responses. Involved in mechanotransduction are several components: extracellular matrix (ECM), ...

In their natural microenvironment, stem cells are surrounded by various mechanical and biochemical signals, and growing evidence suggests that, similarly to the biochemical cues, the biophysical properties of the ...

Human cardiomyocytes (CMs) have been difficult to obtain due to invasive heart biopsies and poor long-term survival of the cells, limiting their utilization in research of cardiac diseases. Human induced pluripotent stem ...

Natural extracts have been used in traditional medicine as remedies to treat for example inflammations. During the era of modern medicine, there has been a shift towards usage of synthetic substances. However, many bacteria ...

Glioblastoma multiforme is the most common of adult primary brain tumors. It is a highly aggressive form of diffuse gliomas and with current treatments median life expectancy of patients with glioblastoma is approximately ...

In the developed world, degenerative retinal diseases such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD) are the leading cause of senior citizens’ vision loss. AMD is caused by the degeneration of the retinal pigment epithelium ...