Mineralisation of two phosphate ceramics in HBSS: role of albumin.

abstract：:A two-layer hydroxyapatite (HA)/HA+TiO(2) bond coat composite coating (HTH coating) on titanium was fabricated by plasma spraying. The HA+TiO(2) bond coat (HTBC) consists of 50 vol% HA and 50 vol% TiO(2) (HT). The microstructural characterization of the HTH coatings before and after heat treatment was conducted by usi...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Lu YP,Li MS,Li ST,Wang ZG,Zhu RF

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biomimetic materials are often capable of subtly affecting tissue development, regeneration and carcinogenesis due to their high similarity to natural tissues. Despite the benefit of using such materials in tissue engineering, their prospective use in cancer therapy has been neglected, particularly the functions and m...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Li X,Wang Y,Chen Y,Zhou P,Wei K,Wang H,Wang J,Fang H,Zhang S

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The widespread use of synthetic transvaginal polypropylene mesh for treating Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP) has been curtailed due to serious adverse effects highlighted in 2008 and 2011 FDA warnings and subsequent legal action. We are developing new synthetic mesh to deliver endometrial mesenchymal stem cells (eMSC) to ...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Emmerson S,Mukherjee S,Melendez-Munoz J,Cousins F,Edwards SL,Karjalainen P,Ng M,Tan KS,Darzi S,Bhakoo K,Rosamilia A,Werkmeister JA,Gargett CE

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly-γ-glutamic acid (γ-PGA) is an anionic polypeptide secreted by Bacillus sp. that has been shown to activate immune cells through interactions with toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4). However, its ability to induce the type I interferon (IFN) response has not yet been characterized. Here, we demonstrate that γ-PGA induces...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Lee W,Lee SH,Ahn DG,Cho H,Sung MH,Han SH,Oh JW

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogels produced from self-assembling peptides and peptide derivatives are being investigated as synthetic extracellular matrices for defined cell culture substrates and scaffolds for regenerative medicine. In many cases, however, they are less stiff than the tissues and extracellular matrices they are intended to m...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Jung JP,Jones JL,Cronier SA,Collier JH

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This experimental investigation aims at revealing the mechanical behaviour and failure pattern of direct fibre-reinforced resin-bonded dental bridge with various designs. To evaluate the overall effects of some newly developed dental materials, in the experiment, genuine composite dental bridge specimens are prepared ...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Li W,Swain MV,Li Q,Ironside J,Steven GP

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural stem cells (NSCs) have the capacity to differentiate into neurons, astrocytes, and oligodendrocytes. Accordingly, NSCs hold great promise in drug screening and treatment of several common diseases. However, a major obstacle in applied stem cell research is the limitation of synthetic matrices for culturing stem...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Lewicka M,Hermanson O,Rising AU

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Branched poly ethylene imine (PEI) has been considered as the most efficient non-viral gene transfection agent. However, its clinical application is confined due to cytotoxicity. In the present study, we tried to enhance transfection efficiency and reduce toxicity of PEI by conjugating it with arginine modified oligo(...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Morris VB,Sharma CP

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Micro- and nano-scale intelligent devices can revolutionize the medical field. Although proteins are promising materials for creating biocompatible miniature medical devices with biological functions, construction of complicated solid-state architectures, using inherently vulnerable proteins, remains challenging. Here...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Yamazoe H

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dacron velour is often used to anchor a percutaneous device, like the catheter used in peritoneal dialysis. However, exit-site infections complicate this method of dialysis and are supposed to be related to the design of the catheter. In animal experiments, a percutaneous device provided with a titanium fibre mesh to ...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Paquay YC,de Ruijter JE,van der Waerden JP,Jansen JA

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In designing and developing various biomaterials, the influence of substrate properties, like surface topography, stiffness and wettability on the cell functionality has been investigated widely. However, such study to probe into the influence of the substrate conductivity on cell fate processes is rather limited. In ...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Thrivikraman G,Mallik PK,Basu B

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multi-layered poly(glycerol-sebacate) (PGS) scaffolds with controlled pore microarchitectures were fabricated, combined with heart cells, and cultured with perfusion to engineer contractile cardiac muscle constructs. First, one-layered (1L) scaffolds with accordion-like honeycomb shaped pores and elastomeric mechanica...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Park H,Larson BL,Guillemette MD,Jain SR,Hua C,Engelmayr GC Jr,Freed LE

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the use of degradable polymer capsules as carriers for the delivery of oligopeptide antigens to professional antigen presenting cells (APCs). To achieve encapsulation, oligopeptide sequences were covalently linked to a negatively charged carrier polymer via biodegradable linkages and the resulting conjuga...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Chong SF,Sexton A,De Rose R,Kent SJ,Zelikin AN,Caruso F

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The superelastic nature of bones requires matching biomechanical properties from the ideal artificial biomedical implants in order to provide smooth load transfer and foster the growth of new bone tissues. In this work, we determine the biomechanical characteristics of porous NiTi implants and investigate bone ingrowt...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Liu X,Wu S,Yeung KW,Chan YL,Hu T,Xu Z,Liu X,Chung JC,Cheung KM,Chu PK

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensing has long been used to study biomolecular binding events and their kinetics in a label-free way. This approach has recently been extended to SPR microscopy, which is an ideal tool for probing large microarrays of biomolecules for their binding interactions with various partners a...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Campbell CT,Kim G

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production profile of interleukin 1 (IL-1) from mouse peritoneal macrophages (M phi) was determined following their incubation with poly(DL-lactic acid) (PDLLA) granules containing ovalbumin (OVA). Upon incubation, M phi produced IL-1 at a significantly high rate compared with those incubated with OVA in the free ...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Nakaoka R,Tabata Y,Ikada Y

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological activity of osteoblasts on the newly developed bioactive poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA)/silica hybrid containing calcium salt was investigated. The attachment, proliferation, and differentiation of primary cultured mouse calvarial osteoblasts were evaluated by hexosaminase, MTT, and alkaline phosphata...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Rhee SH,Hwang MH,Si HJ,Choi JY

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dual-functional liposomes with pH-responsive cell-penetrating peptide (CPP) and active targeting hyaluronic acid (HA) were fabricated for tumor-targeted drug delivery. A series of synthetic tumor pH-triggered CPPs rich in arginines and histidines were screened by comparing tumor cellular uptake efficiency at pH 6.4 wi...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Jiang T,Zhang Z,Zhang Y,Lv H,Zhou J,Li C,Hou L,Zhang Q

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioprosthetic heart valves fail as the result of two simultaneous processes: structural deterioration and calcification. Leaflet deterioration and perforation have been correlated with regions of highest stress in the tissue. The failures have long been assumed to be due to simple mechanical fatigue of the collagen fi...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Ellsmere JC,Khanna RA,Lee JM

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Semisynthetic network alginate polymer (SNAP), synthesized by acetalization of linear alginate with di-aldehyde, is a pH-responsive tetrafunctionally linked 3D gel network, and has potential application in oral delivery of protein therapeutics and active biologicals, and as tissue bioscaffold for regenerative medicine...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Chan AW,Neufeld RJ

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyaluronic acid (HA) hydrogels have found a wide range of applications in biomedicine: regenerative medicine to drug delivery applications. In vivo quantitative assessment of these hydrogels using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides an effective, accurate, safe, and non-invasive translational approach to assess ...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Shazeeb MS,Corazzini R,Konowicz PA,Fogle R,Bangari DS,Johnson J,Ying X,Dhal PK

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of novel cationic star polymers were synthesized by conjugating multiple oligoethylenimine (OEI) arms onto an alpha-cyclodextrin (alpha-CD) core as nonviral gene delivery vectors. The molecular structures of the alpha-CD-OEI star polymers, which contained linear or branched OEI arms with different chain lengt...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Yang C,Li H,Goh SH,Li J

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-density mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) aggregates can be guided to form bone-like tissue via endochondral ossification in vitro when culture media is supplemented with proteins, such as growth factors (GFs), to first guide the formation of a cartilage template, followed by culture with hypertrophic factors. Recent r...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： McMillan A,Nguyen MK,Gonzalez-Fernandez T,Ge P,Yu X,Murphy WL,Kelly DJ,Alsberg E

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly(γ-4-((2-(piperidin-1-yl)ethyl)aminomethyl)benzyl-l-glutamate) (PPABLG), a cationic helical polypeptide, has been recently developed by us as an effective non-viral gene delivery vector. In attempts to elucidate the effect of molecular architecture on the gene delivery efficiencies and thereby identify a potential...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Yin L,Song Z,Kim KH,Zheng N,Tang H,Lu H,Gabrielson N,Cheng J

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The release of the anti-inflammatory agent dexamethasone (DEX) from nanoparticles of poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) embedded in alginate hydrogel (HG) matrices was investigated. DEX-loaded PLGA nanoparticles were prepared using a solvent evaporation technique and were characterized for size, drug loading, and in...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Kim DH,Martin DC

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of supramolecular pseudo-block polycations (CD-SS-pDM/Ad-pPEGs) were realized by assembling bioreducible β-cyclodextrin-cored star poly (2-dimethyl amino)ethyl methacrylate with different molecular weight and an adamantine-ended linear poly(poly(ethylene glycol)ethyl ether methacrylate) (pPEGEEMA) via the hos...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Hu Y,Yuan W,Zhao NN,Ma J,Yang WT,Xu FJ

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Achieving and maintaining safe and reliable lineage specific differentiation of stem cells is important for clinical translation of tissue engineering strategies. In an effort to circumvent the multitude of problems arising from the usage of growth factors and growth factor delivery systems, we have explored the use o...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Huang CC,Narayanan R,Alapati S,Ravindran S

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanocarriers possess advanced physicochemical properties that improve bioavailability, enhance cellular dynamics, and control targetability in drug delivery. In particular, dendritic polyglycerol is a promising new biocompatible scaffold for drug delivery. The present explores the structure-biocompatibility relationsh...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Khandare J,Mohr A,Calderón M,Welker P,Licha K,Haag R

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polydimethacrylate resins were prepared by photopolymerization of Bis-GMA, TEGDMA, UDMA or Bis-EMA (4) monomer, initiated by camphoroquinone/N,N-dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate system. The study of physical properties of these resins showed that TEGDMA seems to create the most dense polymer network, which however is t...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Sideridou I,Tserki V,Papanastasiou G

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) are cut short and grafted with polyethylenimine (PEI) for further covalent conjugation to fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) and prostate stem cell antigen (PSCA) monoclonal antibody (mAb). The in vitro and in vivo toxicity data reveal that the as-prepared CNT-PEI(FITC)-mAb has goo...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Wu H,Shi H,Zhang H,Wang X,Yang Y,Yu C,Hao C,Du J,Hu H,Yang S

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00