Nanocarriers with ultrahigh chromophore loading for fluorescence bio-imaging and photodynamic therapy.

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) is widely known as an effective vasodilator at low concentrations. Drug delivery systems combined with NO can dilate blood vessels surrounding tumor tissues, and the drug accumulation in tumors is accelerated by the enhanced permeability and retention effect, leading to an improvement in the anti-tum...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Kang Y,Kim J,Park J,Lee YM,Saravanakumar G,Park KM,Choi W,Kim K,Lee E,Kim C,Kim WJ

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New adjuvants and delivery strategies are needed to optimize the ability of protein-based vaccines to elicit CD8(+) T cell responses. We have developed a model vaccine formulation containing ovalbumin (OVA) and the double-stranded RNA analog poly(inosinic acid)-poly(cytidylic acid) (poly(I:C)), a TLR3 agonist. OVA and...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Heffernan MJ,Kasturi SP,Yang SC,Pulendran B,Murthy N

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated hepatocytes in spheroid configuration exhibit a high degree of cell-cell contacts, which are important in the maintenance of viability and liver specific functions. In the absence of a vascular network, the cells in a large spheroid size experience mass transfer limitations of metabolites and oxygen in the co...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Curcio E,Salerno S,Barbieri G,De Bartolo L,Drioli E,Bader A

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological surface engineering using synthetic biological materials has a great potential for advances in our understanding of complex biological phenomena. We developed a simple system to engineer biologically relevant surfaces using a combination of self-assembling oligopeptide monolayers and microcontact printing (...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Zhang S,Yan L,Altman M,Lässle M,Nugent H,Frankel F,Lauffenburger DA,Whitesides GM,Rich A

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of poly(hydroxybutyrate-co-hydroxyhexanoate) (PHBHHx) for sustained and controlled delivery of hydrophilic insulin was made possible by preparing insulin phospholipid complex loaded biodegradable PHBHHx nanoparticles (INS-PLC-NPs). The INS-PLC-NPs produced by a solvent evaporation method showed a spher...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Peng Q,Zhang ZR,Gong T,Chen GQ,Sun X

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanocrystalline diamond (NCD) films and nanoparticulate diamond powder (DP) are the two main representatives of diamond at the nanoscale. This study was designed to investigate the suitability of these biomaterials as cell growth supports and to determine surface characteristic properties best suited to cell attachmen...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Lechleitner T,Klauser F,Seppi T,Lechner J,Jennings P,Perco P,Mayer B,Steinmüller-Nethl D,Preiner J,Hinterdorfer P,Hermann M,Bertel E,Pfaller K,Pfaller W

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection constitutes a major risk for implant failure, but the reasons why biomaterial sites are more vulnerable than normal tissue are not fully elucidated. In this study, a soft tissue infection model was developed, allowing the analysis of cellular and molecular responses in each of the sub-compartments of the imp...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Svensson S,Trobos M,Hoffman M,Norlindh B,Petronis S,Lausmaa J,Suska F,Thomsen P

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly(ε-caprolactone)-b-Poly(N-vinylpyrrolidone) (PCL-b-PVP) copolymers with different PVP block length were synthesized by xanthate-mediated reverse addition fragment transfer polymerization (RAFT) and the xanthate chain transfer agent on chain end was readily translated to hydroxy or aldehyde for conjugating various ...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Zhu Z,Xie C,Liu Q,Zhen X,Zheng X,Wu W,Li R,Ding Y,Jiang X,Liu B

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerium oxide nanoparticles (nanoceria) are promising materials for intracellular oxygen free radical scavenging providing a potential therapy for reactive oxygen species (ROS)-mediated inflammatory processes. In this study rhombohedral-shaped nanoceria were synthesized by flame spray pyrolysis with tuneable particle d...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Lord MS,Jung M,Teoh WY,Gunawan C,Vassie JA,Amal R,Whitelock JM

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress, resulting from excessive generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), plays a pivotal role in the initiation and progression of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). To develop an efficacious and safe nanotherapy against IBD, we designed and developed a superoxide dismutase/catalase mimetic nanomedicine ...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Zhang Q,Tao H,Lin Y,Hu Y,An H,Zhang D,Feng S,Hu H,Wang R,Li X,Zhang J

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polyurethane elastomer (PU) Corethane 80A (Corvita) is being considered as the acetabular bearing material in a novel total replacement hip joint. The biostability of Corethane 80A was investigated in vitro (this work) and in vivo (reported separately) in a fully functioning ovine total hip arthroplasty (THA) mode...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Khan I,Smith N,Jones E,Finch DS,Cameron RE

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly(glycerol-sebacate) (PGS) is an elastomeric biodegradable polyester that could potentially be used to engineer blood vessels in vivo. However, its blood-material interactions are unknown. The objectives of this study were to: (a) fabricate PGS-based biphasic tubular scaffolds and (b) assess the blood compatibility...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Motlagh D,Yang J,Lui KY,Webb AR,Ameer GA

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer stem cells (CSCs) play pivotal roles in cancer metastasis, and strategies targeting cancer stemness may greatly reduce cancer metastasis and improve patients' survival. The canonical Wnt/β-catenin pathway plays critical roles in CSC generation and maintenance as well as in normal stem cells. Non-specifically su...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Li Y,Xiao Y,Lin HP,Reichel D,Bae Y,Lee EY,Jiang Y,Huang X,Yang C,Wang Z

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B cells play a major role in the adaptive immune response by producing antigen-specific antibodies against pathogens and imparting immunological memory. Following infection or vaccination, antibody-secreting B cells and memory B cells are generated in specialized regions of lymph nodes and spleens, called germinal cen...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Roh KH,Song HW,Pradhan P,Bai K,Bohannon CD,Dale G,Leleux J,Jacob J,Roy K

更新日期：2018-05-01 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：:Wounded tissues and cells may be treated with growth factors and specific genes for the purpose of tissue repair and regeneration. To deliver specific genes into tissues and cells, this study presents the use of fabricated poly (DL-lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) nanoparticles (NPs) complexed with the cationic polymer...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Park JS,Yang HN,Woo DG,Jeon SY,Park KH

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Composite particles made by growing nanoscopic silicon wires from the surface of monodispersed, microsized silica beads were tested in this study for their ability to affect the integrity and permeability of an epithelial cell layer. Polyethylene glycol (PEG) is known to sterically stabilize particles and prevent prot...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Uskoković V,Lee PP,Walsh LA,Fischer KE,Desai TA

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study deals with the effect of the type and chemical character of incorporated polyester (polyether blocks) on the hydrolytic stability of different types of polyurethane medical adhesive dressings. Diffusion parameters of the investigated polyurethane adhesives, giving information concerning the chemical ...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Pavlova M,Draganova M

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We prepared copper/low-density polyethylene (LDPE) nanocomposites with various mass fractions of copper nanoparticles and investigated the Cu(2+) release rate of them for 220 days in a simulated uterine solution .The influences of copper nanoparticle mass fraction on Cu(2+) release and volume resistivity confirm that ...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Cai S,Xia X,Xie C

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The maximum capacity of a hydrophobic adsorbent is interpreted in terms of square or hexagonal (cubic and face-centered-cubic, FCC) interfacial packing models of adsorbed blood proteins in a way that accommodates experimental measurements by the solution-depletion method and quartz-crystal-microbalance (QCM) for the h...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Kao P,Parhi P,Krishnan A,Noh H,Haider W,Tadigadapa S,Allara DL,Vogler EA

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this research was to design thermosensitive drug vehicles for glaucoma therapy. Thermosensitive ophthalmic drop was prepared by mixing linear poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-g-2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) (PNIPAAm-g-PHEMA), PNIPAAm-g-PHEMA gel particles and antiglaucoma drug. This produced polymeric eyedrop con...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Hsiue GH,Chang RW,Wang CH,Lee SH

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor-activatable ultrasmall nanozyme generation is an unprecedented strategy to overcome intrinsically fatal defects of traditional reactive oxygen species (ROS)-based nanoagents for deep tumor penetration, including limited tissue-penetrating depth of external energy, heavy reliance on oxygen and nonspecific toxicit...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Liu X,Liu Z,Dong K,Wu S,Sang Y,Cui T,Zhou Y,Ren J,Qu X

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of non-viral nanoparticulate systems for the delivery of therapeutic agents is receiving considerable attention for medical and pharmaceutical applications. This increasing interest results from the fact that these systems can be designed to meet specific physicochemical requirements, and they display low toxi...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Chellat F,Merhi Y,Moreau A,Yahia L

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stem cell-based gene therapies, wherein stem cells are genetically engineered to express therapeutic molecules, have shown tremendous potential for cancer applications owing to their innate ability to home to tumors. However, traditional stem cell-based gene therapies are hampered by our current inability to control w...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Yin PT,Shah S,Pasquale NJ,Garbuzenko OB,Minko T,Lee KB

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An oxygen-permeable membrane bioreactor utilizing human hepatocytes has been tested in this study. In the bioreactor, human hepatocytes were cultured between flat-sheet gas-permeable polymeric membranes, which ensure the diffusion of O(2) and CO(2) providing a support for cell anchorage and growth and permit the onlin...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： De Bartolo L,Salerno S,Morelli S,Giorno L,Rende M,Memoli B,Procino A,Andreucci VE,Bader A,Drioli E

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescent Ⅱ-Ⅳ Quantum dots (QDs) have demonstrated to be highly promising biological probes for various biological and biomedical applications due to their many attractive merits, such as robust photostabilty, strong photoluminescence, and size-tunable fluorescence. Along with wide ranging bioapplications, concerns ...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Su Y,Peng F,Jiang Z,Zhong Y,Lu Y,Jiang X,Huang Q,Fan C,Lee ST,He Y

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocytes derived from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) are promising candidates for cell therapy and drug discovery. However, it remains challenging to efficiently purify hepatocytes from undesired cell types after differentiation and to accurately monitor grafted cells after transplantation. Indocyanine Green ...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Park JY,Han J,Jung HS,Lee G,Kim HJ,Cho GS,Park HJ,Han C,Kim JS,Kim JH

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Materials used for total knee arthroplasty (TKA), may elicit an immune response whose role in the outcome of the arthroplasty is still unclear. The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of sensitization in patients who had undergone TKA, and the clinical impact of this event on the outcome of the implant. Ni...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Granchi D,Cenni E,Tigani D,Trisolino G,Baldini N,Giunti A

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:D-α-tocopheryl polyethylene glycol succinate (Vitamin E TPGS, or simply TPGS) is a water-soluble derivative of natural Vitamin E, which is formed by esterification of Vitamin E succinate with polyethylene glycol (PEG). As such, it has advantages of PEG and Vitamin E in application of various nanocarriers for drug deli...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Zhang Z,Tan S,Feng SS

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously observed that muscle-derived stem cells (MDSC) seeded onto porcine small intestinal submucosa (SIS) increase the mechanical compliance of the engineered tissue construct [Lu SH, Sacks MS, Chung SY, Gloeckner DC, Pruchnic R, Huard J, et al. Biaxial mechanical properties of muscle-derived cell seeded ...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Long RA,Nagatomi J,Chancellor MB,Sacks MS

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00