Assessing the eligibility of a non-invasive continuous blood pressure measurement technique for application during total intravenous anaesthesia.

Objective: To assess the eligibility for replacement of invasive blood pressure as measured "within" the arterial vessel (IBP) with non-invasive continuous arterial blood pressure (cNIP) monitoring during total intravenous anaesthesia (TIVA), the ability of cNiP to track fast blood pressure changes needs to be quantified. A new method of statistical data analysis is developed for this purpose.

Methods: In a pilot study on patients undergoing neurosurgical anaesthesia, mean arterial pressure MAPIBP measured with IBP was compared to MAPCNP measured by the CNAP Monitor 500 in ten patients (age: 63±13 a).

Immunohistochemical demonstration of hyaluronan and its possible involvement in axolotl neural crest cell migration.

Hyaluronan (HA), an extracellular matrix component, is involved mainly in the control of cell proliferation, neural crest and tumor cell migration, and wound repair. We investigated the effect of hyaluronan on neural crest (NC) cell migration and its ultrastructural localization in dark (wild-type) and white mutant embryos of the Mexican axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum, Amphibia). The axolotl system is an accepted model for studying mechanisms of NC cell migration.

A new perfusion cell chamber system for determination of heat shock effects by means of video-enhanced microscopy.

A user friendly microscope perfusion chamber which allows real-time observation of individual cells at high magnification has been designed. An integrated multisensor was used to monitor the cell culture conditions. To prove the potential of the system heat shock experiments were performed.

Effects of elevated intraocular pressure on haemoglobin oxygenation in the rabbit optic nerve head: a microendoscopical study.

Intraocular pressure dependent reactions of optic nerve head vasculature and intracapillary haemoglobin oxygenation (HbO(2); oxygen saturation) were studied in the center and at the rim of the rabbit optic nerve head (ONH) as well as in the choroid, by a new combination of microendoscopy and simultaneous haemoglobin spectrophotometry. In 13 anesthetized albino rabbits the vasculature and the intracapillary Hb-oxygenation were studied by a microendoscope which was introduced into the eye bulb. Photometric measurements were performed via a beam splitter with the Erlangen micro-lightguide spectrophotometer (EMPHO) from the center of the endoscopic picture.