Directing phenotype of vascular smooth muscle cells using electrically stimulated conducting polymer.

abstract：:Nanocarrier for augmenting the efficacy of reactive oxygen species (ROS) by tumor microenvironment (TME) has become an emerging strategy for cancer treatment. Herein, a smart biodegradable drug delivery nanoplatform with mitochondrial-targeted ability, pH-responsive drug release and enzyme-like catalytic function is d...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： An J,Hu YG,Cheng K,Li C,Hou XL,Wang GL,Zhang XS,Liu B,Zhao YD,Zhang MZ

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to investigate the effects of different degrees of bioactivity of xerogels on connexin 43 (cx43) signaling of osteoclasts a cell culture approach was developed. Cells isolated from peripheral blood mononuclear cells were cultured in combination with the xerogels and were harvested for further investigations o...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Glenske K,Wagner AS,Hanke T,Cavalcanti-Adam EA,Heinemann S,Heinemann C,Kruppke B,Arnhold S,Moritz A,Schwab EH,Worch H,Wenisch S

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors have evaluated adhesive protein expression and cytokine production by human umbilical vein endothelial cells cultured in contact with polyethylene terephthalate (PET). ELAM-1, ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 expression was determined by flow cytometry; the concentration of interleukin-1 alpha (IL-1 alpha), interleukin-6...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Cenni E,Granchi D,Ciapetti G,Verri E,Cavedagna D,Gamberini S,Di Leo A,Pizzoferrato A

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of thrombin inhibition by antithrombin (AT) and heparin cofactor II (HC II) were analysed as a function of the heparin concentration, from 10(-9) to 10(-4) M. The initial concentrations of inhibitor (l) and thrombin (E) were set at equimolar levels (CI = CE = 10(-8) M). The experimental data indicate that...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Maaroufi RM,Jozefowicz M,Tapon-Bretaudière J,Fischer AM

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a new template-directed method for the fabrication of hydroxyapatite (HAp) sponges by using amino-acid-coated HAp nanoparticles dispersed within a viscous polysaccharide (dextran sulfate) matrix, and describe the use of these materials for the viability and proliferation of human bone marrow stromal cells. T...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Gonzalez-McQuire R,Green D,Walsh D,Hall S,Chane-Ching JY,Oreffo RO,Mann S

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) is an important biological messenger involved in the treatment of bacterial infections, but its controlled and targeted release in bacterial infections remains a major challenge. Herein, an intelligent NO nanogenerator triggered by near-infrared (NIR) light is constructed for targeted treatment of P....

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Wu Y,Deng G,Jiang K,Wang H,Song Z,Han H

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regeneration of the damaged myocardium is one of the most challenging fronts in the field of tissue engineering due to the limited capacity of adult heart tissue to heal and to the mechanical and structural constraints of the cardiac tissue. In this study we demonstrate that an engineered acellular scaffold comprising...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Serpooshan V,Zhao M,Metzler SA,Wei K,Shah PB,Wang A,Mahmoudi M,Malkovskiy AV,Rajadas J,Butte MJ,Bernstein D,Ruiz-Lozano P

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are a key component of the tumour microenvironment and have been shown to play an important role in the progression of cancer. To probe these tumour-stroma interactions, we incorporated CAFs derived from head and neck cancer patients and squamous carcinoma cells of the hypopharynx ...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Young M,Rodenhizer D,Dean T,D'Arcangelo E,Xu B,Ailles L,McGuigan AP

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress is commonly existed in bone degenerative disease (osteoarthritis, osteoporosis etc.) and some antioxidants had great potential to enhance osteogenesis. In this study, we aim to investigate the anti-oxidative properties of various TiO2 nanotubes (TNTs) so to screen the desirable size for improved osteo...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Yu Y,Shen X,Luo Z,Hu Y,Li M,Ma P,Ran Q,Dai L,He Y,Cai K

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to evaluate the potential of acellular dermal matrix as a carrier for delivery of stem cells to the site of soft tissue defect in a murine skin injury model and to determine the potential of stem cells delivered via such an approach to successfully engraft, survive and differentiate lo...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Altman AM,Matthias N,Yan Y,Song YH,Bai X,Chiu ES,Slakey DP,Alt EU

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolic disposition and elimination process of the anhydride co-polymer poly[1,3-bis(p-carboxy-phenoxypropane):sebacic acid] 20:80 [P(CPP:Sa)20:80] implanted in the rat brain was studied. Two polymers were prepared, one with [14C]SA and unlabelled CPP, and the other co-polymer with [14C]CPP and unlabelled SA. Wi...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Domb AJ,Rock M,Schwartz J,Perkin C,Yipchuk G,Broxup B,Villemure JG

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The non-specific interaction between nanoparticles (NPs) and plasma proteins occurs immediately after NPs enter the blood, resulting in the formation of the protein corona that thereafter replaces the original NPs and becomes what the organs and cells really see. Consequently, the in vivo fate of NPs and the biologica...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Peng Q,Zhang S,Yang Q,Zhang T,Wei XQ,Jiang L,Zhang CL,Chen QM,Zhang ZR,Lin YF

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) releasing (NORel) materials have been extensively investigated to create localized increases in NO concentration by the proton driven diazeniumdiolate-containing polymer coatings and demonstrated to improve extracorporeal circulation (ECC) hemocompatibility. In this work, the NORel polymeric coating ...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Major TC,Brisbois EJ,Jones AM,Zanetti ME,Annich GM,Bartlett RH,Handa H

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a drug delivery system for prolonged trans-tympanic antibiotic delivery from a single dose administration. Increased permeability to ciprofloxacin of the intact tympanic membrane (TM) was achieved by chemical permeation enhancers (CPEs--bupivacaine, limonene, sodium dodecyl sulfate); this was also se...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Khoo X,Simons EJ,Chiang HH,Hickey JM,Sabharwal V,Pelton SI,Rosowski JJ,Langer R,Kohane DS

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biopolymer DNA allows to create nanoscale, biocompatible structures, which can be designed in a target-specific and stimuli-responsive manner. DNA carrier systems with these characteristics hold a great potential for nanomedical applications, such as for the treatment of inflammatory diseases. Here we used a DNA-b...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Sellner S,Kocabey S,Zhang T,Nekolla K,Hutten S,Krombach F,Liedl T,Rehberg M

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, scaffolds as cell and tissue carriers are approached from an engineering point of view, emphasizing material superstructuring in the design of supports. Superstructure engineering provides optimal spatial and nutritional conditions for cell maintenance by the arrangement of structural elements (e.g. pores or fib...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Wintermantel E,Mayer J,Blum J,Eckert KL,Lüscher P,Mathey M

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microcomputed tomography (micro-CT) is increasingly being used to analyze the three-dimensional structure and architecture of microvascular networks. Therefore we have evaluated a micro-CT analysis of VEGF-induced vessel ingrowth into a porous polyurethane scaffold through comparison with analyses by CD31 immunohistoc...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Schmidt C,Bezuidenhout D,Beck M,Van der Merwe E,Zilla P,Davies N

更新日期：2009-10-01 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：:Improving the immunogenicity of subunit vaccines, in particular skewing of the immune response towards Th1 type immunity, is crucial for the development of effective vaccines against intracellular infections and for the development of anti-cancer vaccines. Small molecule TLR7/8 agonist hold high potential for this pur...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Nuhn L,Van Hoecke L,Deswarte K,Schepens B,Li Y,Lambrecht BN,De Koker S,David SA,Saelens X,De Geest BG

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is concerned with the entrapment of an enzyme within an aggregated metallic matrix and the development of a bioactive enzyme-metal composite. Whereas the use of organic polymers and metal oxides for the preparation of enzymatically active materials is well developed, the third principle enzyme-material comb...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Ben-Knaz R,Avnir D

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We synthesized arginine-conjugated polypropylenimine dendrimer G2 (DAB-8), PPI2-R for gene delivery systems. Synthesized PPI2-R could retard plasmid DNA at a weight ratio of 4 completely and PPI2-R polyplexes showed a fluorescence of less than 10% over a charge ratio of 2 by PicoGreen reagent assay, suggesting its goo...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Kim TI,Baek JU,Zhe Bai C,Park JS

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biodegradable polyurethanes are typically prepared from polyester polyols, aliphatic diisocyanates and chain extenders. We have developed a degradable chain extender (DCE) based on dl-lactic acid and ethylene glycol to accelerate hard segment degradation. Three series of polyurethane elastomers were synthesised to inv...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Tatai L,Moore TG,Adhikari R,Malherbe F,Jayasekara R,Griffiths I,Gunatillake PA

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work developed a multimodal imaging system by co-encapsulating superparamagnetic iron oxides (IOs) and quantum dots (QDs) in the nanoparticles of poly (lactic acid) - d-α-tocopheryl polyethylene glycol 1000 succinate (PLA-TPGS) for concurrent imaging of the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and the fluorescence im...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Tan YF,Chandrasekharan P,Maity D,Yong CX,Chuang KH,Zhao Y,Wang S,Ding J,Feng SS

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro tissue engineered models are poised to have significant impact on disease modeling and preclinical drug development. Reliable methods to induce microvascular networks in such microphysiological systems are needed to improve the size and physiological function of these models. By systematically engineering sev...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Brown A,He H,Trumper E,Valdez J,Hammond P,Griffith LG

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioengineering of whole hearts using human embryonic stem cells (hESCs)-derived cardiovascular progenitor cells (CPCs) and natural matrices is a promising approach to overcome organ donor shortage threatening millions of patients awaiting for heart transplantation. Here, we developed a novel strategy for generation of...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Rajabi S,Pahlavan S,Ashtiani MK,Ansari H,Abbasalizadeh S,Sayahpour FA,Varzideh F,Kostin S,Aghdami N,Braun T,Baharvand H

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The removal of tenacious dental plaque is of paramount importance; however, early diagnosis can be a challenging task in dental clinics due to the limitations of current approaches, specifically X-ray-based techniques. We have approached this problem by integrating antibacterial properties and X-ray contrast enhanceme...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Ostadhossein F,Misra SK,Tripathi I,Kravchuk V,Vulugundam G,LoBato D,Selmic LE,Pan D

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug-loaded implants have attracted considerable attention in cancer treatment due to their precise delivery of drugs into cancer tissues. Contrary to injected drug delivery, the application of drug-loaded implants remains underutilized given the requirement for a surgical operation. Nevertheless, drug-loaded implants...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Yang Y,Qiao X,Huang R,Chen H,Shi X,Wang J,Tan W,Tan Z

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the design of original nanocarriers that allows for ultrahigh chromophore loading while maintaining the photo-activity of each individual molecule. They consist in shells of charged biocompatible polymers grafted on gold nanospheres. The self-organization of extended polymer chains results from repulsive c...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Navarro JR,Lerouge F,Cepraga C,Micouin G,Favier A,Chateau D,Charreyre MT,Lanoë PH,Monnereau C,Chaput F,Marotte S,Leverrier Y,Marvel J,Kamada K,Andraud C,Baldeck PL,Parola S

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mandibular reconstruction requires functional and aesthetic repair and is further complicated by contamination from oral and skin flora. Antibiotic-releasing porous space maintainers have been developed for the local release of vancomycin and to promote soft tissue attachment. In this study, mandibular defects in six ...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Watson E,Smith BT,Smoak MM,Tatara AM,Shah SR,Pearce HA,Hogan KJ,Shum J,Melville JC,Hanna IA,Demian N,Wenke JC,Bennett GN,van den Beucken JJJP,Jansen JA,Wong ME,Mikos AG

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioactive coatings for neural electrodes that are tailored for cell interactions have the potential to produce superior implants with improved charge transfer capabilities. In this study synthetically produced anionically modified laminin peptides DEDEDYFQRYLI and DCDPGYIGSR were used to dope poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythi...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Green RA,Lovell NH,Poole-Warren LA

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00