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Esophageal Heat Transfer for Patient Temperature Control and Targeted Temperature Management
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2017
This study presents a novel method to provide efficient patient temperature control for cooling or warming patients. A single use, triple lumen device is placed into the esophagus, analogous to a standard orogastric tube, and connects to existing heat exchange units to perform automatic patient temperature management.
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Studying the Protein Quality Control System of D. discoideum Using Temperature-controlled Live Cell Imaging
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2016
The social amoebae Dictyostelium discoideum has recently been established as a system to study protein misfolding and proteostasis. Here, we describe a new imaging-based methodology to study temperature-induced protein aggregation and the cellular stress response in D. discoideum.
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Physical Methods for Controlling Microbial Growth: Temperature
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2025
Heat is a widely used method to control microbial growth by targeting and denaturing cellular proteins, thereby killing or inactivating microbes. This method's effectiveness is quantified using parameters such as the thermal death point (TDP), thermal death time (TDT), and decimal reduction time (D value). TDP represents the lowest temperature at which all microorganisms in a liquid suspension are eliminated within 10 minutes, whereas TDT is the time necessary to achieve sterilization at a...
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Controlled Rotation of Human Observers in a Virtual Reality Environment
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2022
The controlled physical rotation of a human observer is desirable for certain experimental, recreational, and educational applications. This paper outlines a method for converting an office swivel chair into a medium for controlled physical rotation in a virtual reality environment.
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Microbial Control and Monitoring Strategies for Cleanroom Environments and Cellular Therapies
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2023
The protocol summarizes the best practices to minimize microbial bioburden in a cleanroom environment and includes strategies such as environmental monitoring, process monitoring, and product sterility testing. It is relevant for manufacturing and testing facilities that are required to meet current good tissue practice standards and current good manufacturing practice standards.
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A feedback loop compares the measured temperature with a selected set point. Sensors provide the measurement, and the control system directs heating or cooling to reduce the difference between actual and desired conditions. This repeated adjustment limits temperature deviations, allowing biological experiments to proceed under a more consistent thermal regime than one relying on uncontrolled ambient conditions.
Biological processes respond to temperature, so changes can influence cell growth, microbial culture, enzyme activity, and organism development. If temperature varies between experiments or during one experiment, the measured outcome may reflect thermal differences rather than the factor being studied. Controlling temperature therefore helps researchers make more reliable comparisons across samples, treatments, or experimental runs.
Maintaining a defined thermal range reduces an important source of variation between experimental conditions. Samples can be evaluated under the same temperature target, making differences in growth, activity, or development easier to associate with the intended treatment or biological variable. Consistent thermal conditions also support repeatable protocols and improve confidence when results are compared across separate experiments.
Researchers must choose an appropriate temperature set point or defined range for the biological process under study, then use sensors to monitor the actual condition. The environment also requires heating or cooling capacity to correct deviations through feedback control. These choices determine whether cells, cultures, enzymes, or organisms experience the stable conditions needed for meaningful measurements.
Applications include cell culture, microbial culture, molecular assays, enzyme activity experiments, and studies of organism development. In each case, temperature control helps researchers examine biological responses without allowing uncontrolled thermal variation to dominate the outcome. The approach is useful whenever growth, biochemical activity, or development changes substantially with temperature and requires consistent experimental conditions.
Ecological and physiological studies can use controlled thermal conditions to compare biological responses across selected temperatures. Researchers may examine how organisms develop or function while limiting other environmental variation introduced by changing temperature. This supports controlled comparisons and helps connect observed outcomes to thermal conditions, providing a structured way to investigate temperature-sensitive biological processes.