Serum electrolyte abnormalities in cats with chronic inflammatory enteropathy.

Background: Limited information is available on electrolyte abnormalities in cats with chronic inflammatory enteropathy (CIE).

Hypothesis/objectives: Report the prevalence of electrolyte abnormalities in cats with CIE compared to other gastrointestinal disorders, and determine their association with disease and outcome variables in cats with CIE.

Animals: Three hundred twenty-eight client-owned cats from 2 referral hospitals: CIE (132), alimentary small cell lymphoma (29), acute gastroenteritis (48), and healthy controls (119).

A Robust Parallel Computing Data Extraction Framework for Nanopore Experiments.

The success of a nanopore experiment relies not only on the quality of the experimental design but also on the performance of the analysis program utilized to decipher the ionic perturbations necessary for understanding the fundamental molecular intricacies. An event extraction framework is developed that leverages parallel computing, efficient memory management, and vectorization, yielding significant performance enhancement. The newly developed abf-ultra-simple function extracts key parameters from the header critical for the operation of open-seek-read-close data loading architecture running on multiple cores.

Emerging trends in metal oxide-based electronic noses for healthcare applications: a review.

An electronic nose (E-nose) is a technology fundamentally inspired by the human nose, designed to detect, recognize, and differentiate specific odors or volatile components in complex and chaotic environments. Comprising an array of sensors with meticulously designed nanostructured architectures, E-noses translate the chemical information captured by these sensors into useful metrics using complex pattern recognition algorithms. E-noses can significantly enhance the quality of life by offering preventive point-of-care devices for medical diagnostics through breath analysis, and by monitoring and tracking hazardous and toxic gases in the environment.

Nanopore Fabrication Made Easy: A Portable, Affordable Microcontroller-Assisted Approach for Tailored Pore Formation via Controlled Breakdown.

With growing interest in solid-state nanopore sensing─a single-molecule technique capable of profiling a host of analyte classes─establishing facile and scalable approaches for fabricating molecular-size pores is becoming increasingly important. The introduction of nanopore fabrication by controlled breakdown (CBD) has transformed the economics and accessibility of nanopore fabrication. Here, we introduce the design of an Arduino-based, portable USB-powered CBD device, with an estimated cost of <150 USD, which is ≈10-100× cheaper than most commercial solutions, capable of fabricating single nanopores conducive for single molecule sensing experiments.