Neutrophil polarization and immunoelectrophoresis assays in the study of complement activation by biomaterials.

abstract：:Finding bioactive short peptides derived from proteins is a critical step to the advancement of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, because the former maintains the functions of the latter without immunogenicity in biological systems. Here, we discovered a bioactive core nonapeptide sequence, PPFEGCIWN (resi...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Yeo IS,Min SK,Kang HK,Kwon TK,Jung SY,Min BM

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A glucose biosensor was fabricated with loading of glucose oxidase (GOx) into a new organic-inorganic hybrid nanocomposite. The preparation involves formation of silica network into a Nafion (perfluorosulfonate ionomer) and subsequent loading of polyaniline grafted multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNT-g-PANI) onto Nafio...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Gopalan AI,Lee KP,Ragupathy D,Lee SH,Lee JW

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The large surface area of highly porous titanium structures produced by additive manufacturing can be modified using biofunctionalizing surface treatments to improve the bone regeneration performance of these otherwise bioinert biomaterials. In this longitudinal study, we applied and compared three types of biofunctio...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Amin Yavari S,van der Stok J,Chai YC,Wauthle R,Tahmasebi Birgani Z,Habibovic P,Mulier M,Schrooten J,Weinans H,Zadpoor AA

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thin and defect-free calcium phosphate films with a Ca/P ratio of 1.62 were formed by electron-beam evaporation. The as-deposited films had average bonding strengths to the metal implants of 64.8 MPa and the dissolution rates of 47.5 nm/h in isotonic saline solutions. The interface mechanical characteristics and histo...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Le IS,Kim DH,Kim HE,Jung YC,Han CH

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Remote microactuators are of great interest in biology and medicine as minimally-invasive tools for cellular stimulation. Remote actuation can be achieved by active magnetostrictive transducers which are capable of changing shape in response to external magnetic fields thereby creating controlled displacements. Among ...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Vargas-Estevez C,Blanquer A,Dulal P,Pérez Del Real R,Duch M,Ibáñez E,Barrios L,Murillo G,Torras N,Nogués C,Stadler BJH,Plaza JA,Esteve J

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microcontact printing (mCP) is employed to generate discontinuous microscale gradients of active fractalkine, a chemokine expressed by endothelial cells near sites of inflammation where it is believed to form concentration gradients descending away from the inflamed area. In vivo, fractalkine is a transmembrane molecu...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Hjortø GM,Hansen M,Larsen NB,Kledal TN

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to explore the feasibility of using cartilage-derived morphogenetic protein-1 (CDMP1) induced dermal fibroblasts (DFs) as seed cells and polyglycolide (PGA) as scaffold for fibrocartilage engineering. DFs isolated from canine were expanded and seeded on PGA scaffold to fabricate cell/scaffold c...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Zhao G,Yin S,Liu G,Cen L,Sun J,Zhou H,Liu W,Cui L,Cao Y

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of nanoparticles of various sizes and surface functionalities on the self-assembling fibrillogenesis of beta-amyloid (1-40) peptide was investigated. Functionalized nanoparticles including quantum dots and gold nanoparticles were co-incubated with monomeric Aβ(1-40) peptides under seed-mediated growth me...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Chan HM,Xiao L,Yeung KM,Ho SL,Zhao D,Chan WH,Li HW

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymers may serve as a biodegradable material in tissue engineering. To assess the biocompatibility of poly-beta-hydroxy butyric acid (PHB), we studied the structural organization of cellular molecules involved in adhesion using osteoblastic and epithelial cell lines. On PHB, both cell lines revealed a rounded cell s...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Nebe B,Forster C,Pommerenke H,Fulda G,Behrend D,Bernewski U,Schmitz KP,Rychly J

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The design of synthetic polymers may affect structural features of inflammatory cells, for example the expression of endogenous sugar receptor molecules like lectins in macrophages and foreign body giant multinucleate cells. This characteristic was studied histochemically by use of biotinylated (neo)glycoproteins. The...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Smetana K Jr,Gabius HJ,Vacík J,Jelínková M,Lukás J

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decellularization techniques have been widely used as an alternative strategy for organ reconstruction. However, the compliance of tracheal or laryngeal tissues can be increased during the decellularization process, which might cause postoperative stenosis due to elimination of chondrocytes. The purpose of our study w...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Ma R,Li M,Luo J,Yu H,Sun Y,Cheng S,Cui P

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prosthetic heart valves epitomize both the triumphant advance of cardiac surgery in its early days and its stagnation into a retrospective, exclusive first world discipline of late. Fifty-two years after the first diseased heart valve was replaced in a patient, prostheses largely represent the concepts of the 1960s wi...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Zilla P,Brink J,Human P,Bezuidenhout D

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Controlling cell orientation and morphology through topographical patterning is a phenomenon that is applicable to a wide variety of medical applications such as implants and tissue engineering scaffolds. Previous work in this field, termed contact guidance, has demonstrated the application of this cellular response o...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Bettinger CJ,Orrick B,Misra A,Langer R,Borenstein JT

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New light-activation units equipped with high-illuminant blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have recently been proposed as a replacement for the halogen units that are widely used in dentistry to polymerize light-cured resins. The photoinitiators in light-cured dental resins, typified by the camphorquinone (CQ)/amine p...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Teshima W,Nomura Y,Tanaka N,Urabe H,Okazaki M,Nahara Y

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degradation of poly[bis(glycine ethyl ester)phosphazene] in aqueous media was studied by following the appearance of some of its expected by-products in solution. Disc-shaped polymer slabs of 12 mm diameter and 1.2 mm thickness were prepared by compression moulding, followed by incubation in aqueous media under ca...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Ruiz EM,Ramírez CA,Aponte MA,Barbosa-Cánovas GV

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ferroptosis, a newfound non-apoptotic cell death pathway, results from the accumulation of iron-dependent lipid peroxide (LPO). Recently, emerging iron-based nanomaterials have been extensively developed to induce Fenton reaction-dependent ferroptosis for cancer therapy. However, insufficient amount of H2O2 and limite...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： He YJ,Liu XY,Xing L,Wan X,Chang X,Jiang HL

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increasing number of studies in cardiac cell therapy have provided encouraging results for cardiac repair. Adult stem cells may overcome ethical and availability concerns, with the additional advantages, in some cases, to allow autologous grafts to be performed. However, the major problems of cell survival, cell fa...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Karam JP,Muscari C,Montero-Menei CN

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Titiania nanotubes have large potential in medical implant applications but their tissue compatibility is still controversial. Since the sterilization methods may impact the biocompatibility of titania nanotubes and be the source of the controversy, we investigate the influence of three commonly used sterilization met...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Zhao L,Mei S,Wang W,Chu PK,Wu Z,Zhang Y

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the behavior of neural stem cells from embryonic rat cerebral cortex were compared on the chitosan and poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) substrates at single-cell and neurosphere level. It was found that chitosan and PVDF substrates inhibited the proliferation and differentiation of single neural stem ce...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Hung CH,Lin YL,Young TH

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three-dimensional gelatin-chondroitin 6 sulphate-hyanuronic acid (gelatin-C6S-HA) biomatrices were used as the scaffold to investigate the phenotypic and molecular expression of basement membrane (BM) and extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins in vitro. The cells were cultured in three different culture conditions: kerat...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Wang TW,Sun JS,Huang YC,Wu HC,Chen LT,Lin FH

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Graphene oxide (GO) immunotoxicity is not clarified well up to date. Herein we reported the effects of GOs with and without polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) coating on human immune cells such as dendritic cells (DCs), T lymphocytes and macrophages. Human immune cells such as dendritic cells (DCs), T lymphocytes and macropha...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Zhi X,Fang H,Bao C,Shen G,Zhang J,Wang K,Guo S,Wan T,Cui D

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeted theranostic nano-system integrating functions of both diagnosis and therapy shows great potential for improving diagnosis and therapeutic efficacy. Herein, multifunctional nanoparticle based on activatable hyaluronic acid (HA) conjugating two near-infrared (NIR) dyes of Cy5.5 and IR825 was successfully design...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Liang X,Fang L,Li X,Zhang X,Wang F

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic islet transplantation is one of the most promising strategies for patients suffering from type 1 diabetes mellitus, but several therapeutic immunosuppressive medications must be administered simultaneously to protect transplanted islets in the long-term, and these expose patients to the risk of serious comp...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Yun Lee D,Hee Nam J,Byun Y

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the antibacterial activity of prepolymerized resin filler, in which the bactericide quaternary ammonium was immobilized. The experimental filler was prepared by grinding prepolymerized resin blocks of methacrylate monomers, silica particles, and the antibacterial monomer methacryloyloxydodecylpyrid...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Imazato S,Ebi N,Takahashi Y,Kaneko T,Ebisu S,Russell RR

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrasoft biomaterials-polymers, gels, and human soft tissues with an elastic modulus less than ∼100 kPa-are increasingly used in medical devices. While bacterial interactions (adhesion and biofilm formation) have been extensively studied on stiffer materials, little is known about how bacteria colonize ultrasoft mate...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Wang Y,Guan A,Isayeva I,Vorvolakos K,Das S,Li Z,Phillips KS

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human adipose tissue extracellular matrix, derived through decellularization processing, has been shown to provide a biomimetic microenvironment for adipose tissue regeneration. This study reports the use of human adipose tissue-derived extracellular matrix (hDAM) scaffolds as a three-dimensional cell culturing system...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Dunne LW,Huang Z,Meng W,Fan X,Zhang N,Zhang Q,An Z

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An oxidizing treatment of carbon fibres in boiling nitric acid leads to significant changes in the chemical state of their surface. As a result of the chemical treatment on a hydrophobic carbon surface, hydrophilic domains are formed and phenolic, carbonyl and carboxyl groups appear. In this work the intensity of phag...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Czajkowska B,Błazewicz M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here a thermal decomposition approach to the synthesis of water-soluble superparamagnetic manganese ferrite (MnFe(2)O(4)) nanoparticles (NPs) for magnetic resonance (MR) imaging applications. In this approach, tetraethylene glycol was utilized as a coordination and stabilization agent, rendering the NPs wate...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Yang H,Zhang C,Shi X,Hu H,Du X,Fang Y,Ma Y,Wu H,Yang S

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present work assesses the potential of three-dimensional porous titanium scaffolds produced by a novel powder metallurgy process for applications in bone engineering through in vitro experimentation. Mouse MC3T3-E1 pre-osteoblasts were used to investigate the proliferation (DNA content), differentiation (alkaline ...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： St-Pierre JP,Gauthier M,Lefebvre LP,Tabrizian M

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To prevent bone metastasis, we developed polyethylene glycol (PEG)-conjugated aspartic acid (Asp)-modified liposomes (PEG-Asp-Lipo) as a bone-targeting carrier of paclitaxel (PTX) by using Asp-modified 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine (DPPE-Asp). The affinity of Asp-modified liposomes to hydroxyapatite...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Yamashita S,Katsumi H,Hibino N,Isobe Y,Yagi Y,Tanaka Y,Yamada S,Naito C,Yamamoto A

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00