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Transport of ions and small organic compounds into the acinar lumen will concentrate them in the seminal plasma.
Increase in blood flow, or shear stress, induces enlargement of the artery [ 2 24 25 26 ] ; and decrease in shear stress results in reduction of lumen diameter of the artery [ 26 27 28 ] .
The PercuSurge GuardWire (Medtronic, Santa Rosa, CA, USA) is an occlusion thrombectomy device that consists of a wire containing a central lumen that communicates with a low-pressure distal occlusion balloon incorporated into the tip (Fig.
The catheters used were nontunneled, noncuffed, triple lumen and made of polyurethane material (Arrow, Erding, Germany).
Additionally, it appears that the population sub-groups at greatest risk for gastric cancer have a limited ability to secrete ascorbic acid from the plasma through the mucosal and into the gastric lumen [ 30 ] . In a related study, supplementation with vitamin C reduces the degree of apoptosis and nitrotyrosine immunohistochemistry [ 13 ] , a marker of peroxynitrite formation [ 15 ] . NF-κB is activated in gastric epithelia with H. pylori infection, and clearance of this infection reduced NF-κB levels as well as expression of inducible nitric oxide [ 5 13 ] , thereby reducing the mucosal burden of nitric oxide and possibly peroxynitrite.