Gregory Tsoucalas
Democritus University of Thrace
95 Papers
157 Citations
Gregory Tsoucalas is an academic researcher from Democritus University of Thrace. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Ancient Greek. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 95 publications.
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Papers
3D Bioprinting Methods and Techniques: Applications on Artificial Blood Vessel Fabrication.
Theodore G. Papaioannou,Danae Manolesou,Evangelos Dimakakos,Gregory Tsoucalas,Manolis Vavuranakis,Dimitrios Tousoulis +5 more
TL;DR: Advances in additive manufacturing techniques, medical imaging modalities, biomaterials and cellular engineering will lead to further developments in the fabrication of patient-specific vascular tissue constructs, expected to further transform the fields of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
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From miasmas to germs: a historical approach to theories of infectious disease transmission.
Marianna Karamanou,George Panayiotakopoulos,Gregory Tsoucalas,Antonis A. Kousoulis,George Androutsos +4 more
TL;DR: From miasma to germ theory, this paper traced the evolution of conceptions in infectious disease transmission, starting from unproved theories of contagiousness and moving on to miasmas theory, contagion theory and spontaneous generation theory.
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The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic, the Origins of the H1N1-virus Strain, a Glance in History
Gregory Tsoucalas,Antonios Kousoulis,Markos Sgantzos +2 more
- 28 Oct 2016
TL;DR: This study purports to depict the general icon of the 1918 pandemic epoch, for the readers to shape an overview of the events of the era, and enlightens some aspects of virus blast.
Theophrastus Bombastus Von Hohenheim (Paracelsus) (1493-1541): The eminent physician and pioneer of toxicology.
TL;DR: Theophrastus Bombastus Von Hohenheim known as Paracelsus was a German-Swiss homo universalis, or Renaissance man, whose interests included medicine, chemistry and toxicology as discussed by the authors.
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Galen's (130-201 AD) Conceptions of the Heart.
Marianna Karamanou,Christodoulos Stefanadis,Gregory Tsoucalas,Konstantinos Laios,George Androutsos +4 more
TL;DR: Galen's erroneous theory of blood circulation, based on the inaccurate notion that venous blood passes through tiny pores in the heart's septum, moves from the right ventricle to the left, and is mixed with inhaled air from the lungs, blocked any new ideas in this field for more than 1500 years.
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