Medical University of Warsaw
2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE
Medicine
An In Vivo Method for Evaluating the Gut-Blood Barrier and Liver Metabolism of Microbiota Products
Kinga Jaworska 1, Tomasz Huc 1, Marta Gawrys 1, Maksymilian Onyszkiewicz 1, Emilia Samborowska 2, Marcin Ufnal 1
1Department of Experimental Physiology and Pathophysiology, Laboratory of Centre for Preclinical Research, Medical University of Warsaw, 2Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences
The access of nutrients, microbiota metabolites and medicines to the circulation is controlled by the gut-blood barrier (GBB). We describe a direct method for measuring the GBB permeability in vivo, which, in contrast to commonly used indirect methods, is virtually not affected by liver and kidney functions.
Medicine
The Use of Mixed Reality in Custom-Made Revision Hip Arthroplasty: A First Case Report
Paweł Łęgosz 1, Krzysztof Starszak 1,2, Maciej Stanuch 3,4, Maciej Otworowski 1, Łukasz Pulik 1, Adriana Złahoda-Huzior 3,4, Andrzej Skalski 3,4
1Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology of the Musculoskeletal System, Infant Jesus Teaching Hospital, Medical University of Warsaw, 2Department of Human Anatomy, Medical University of Silesia, 3Department of Measurement and Electronics, AGH University of Science and Technology, 4MedApp S.A.
A complex revision hip arthroplasty was performed using a custom-made implant and mixed reality technology. According to the authors' knowledge, this is the first report of such procedure described in the literature.
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