Two-photon fluorescence imaging and bimodal phototherapy of epidermal cancer cells with biocompatible self-assembled polymer nanoparticles.

abstract：:Horseradish peroxidase-catalyzed polymerization of cardanol in aqueous organic solvent was investigated in the presence of a redox mediator. Cardanol is a phenol derivative from a renewable resource mainly having a C15 unsaturated hydrocarbon chain with mostly 1-3 double bonds at a meta position. Unlike soybean peroxi...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Won K,Kim YH,An ES,Lee YS,Song BK

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We synthesized positively charged biodegradable hydrogels by cross-linking of agmatine-modified poly(ethylene glycol)-tethered fumarate (Agm-PEGF) and poly(propylene fumarate-co-ethylene glycol) (P(PF-co-EG)) to investigate the effect of the guanidino groups of the agmatine on hydrogel swelling behavior and smooth mus...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Tanahashi K,Jo S,Mikos AG

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggregation phenomena in aqueous solutions of purified human tracheobronchial mucin have been studied by rheological methods, steady-state fluorescence, quasielastic light scattering, and spin probe techniques. At temperatures below 30 degrees C and concentrations above 15 mg/mL and in the absence of chaotropic agents...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Bromberg LE,Barr DP

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biomimetic mineralization of collagen is an advantageous method to obtain resorbable collagen/hydroxy-apatite composites for application in bone regeneration. In this report, established procedures for mineralization of bovine collagen were adapted to a new promising source of collagen from salmon skin challenged by t...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Hoyer B,Bernhardt A,Heinemann S,Stachel I,Meyer M,Gelinsky M

更新日期：2012-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The SEC-MALS-QELS (size-exclusion chromatography equipped with multiangle light scattering and quasi-elastic light scattering detectors) method using lithium chloride/N,N-dimethylacetamide (LiCl/DMAc) and LiCl/1,3-dimethyl-2-imidazolidinone (LiCl/DMI) as mobile phases was applied to cellulose and cellulose tricarbanil...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Yanagisawa M,Isogai A

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New pH-responsive polymersomes for active anticancer oligonucleotide delivery were prepared from triblock copolymers. The delivery systems were formed by two terminal hydrophilic blocks, PEG and polyglycerolmethacrylate (poly-GMA), and a central weakly basic block, polyimidazole-hexyl methacrylate (poly-ImHeMA), which...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Gallon E,Matini T,Sasso L,Mantovani G,Armiñan de Benito A,Sanchis J,Caliceti P,Alexander C,Vicent MJ,Salmaso S

更新日期：2015-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Most biopolymers exist in a plasticized state, whether it is naturally with water or unnaturally with glycerol or other suitable polyol, to make a flexible material. We have found that the extent to which a biopolymer can be plasticized is dependent on its molecular and higher order structures outside of simply molecu...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Athamneh AI,Griffin M,Whaley M,Barone JR

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycosaminoglycan (GAG)-protein binding governs critically important signaling events in living matter. Aiming at a quantitative analysis of the involved processes, we herein present a thermodynamic study of the interaction of the model GAG heparin and lysozyme in aqueous solution. Heparin is a highly charged linear p...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Walkowiak JJ,Ballauff M,Zimmermann R,Freudenberg U,Werner C

更新日期：2020-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Many dental restorative dental composites still utilize 2,2-bis[4-(2-hydroxy-3-methacryloyloxy propoxy) phenyl] propane (Bis-GMA) as base resin. The high viscosity of Bis-GMA necessitates dilution with dimethacrylate ethers of low viscosity such as triethylene glycol dimethacrylate (TEGDMA). However, increased amounts...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Kim JW,Kim LU,Kim CK,Cho BH,Kim OY

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DC and AC electrical conductivity of bionanocomposites based on the immiscible polymer blend poly(epsilon-caprolactone)/polylactide (PCL/PLA, w/w 70/30), loaded with multiwall carbon nanotubes (CNT), were studied in a wide frequency range, 10(-3) < or = f < or = 10(7) Hz from 143 to 313 K. The nanofiller concentration...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Laredo E,Grimau M,Bello A,Wu DF,Zhang YS,Lin DP

更新日期：2010-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The maintenance of hepatocyte phenotype and functions remains as a great challenge in the generation of functional liver tissue and in vitro model for drug metabolism studies. The use of hepatocyte coculture systems plays essential roles in the establishment of cell-cell and cell-extracellular matrix communications si...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Liu Y,Li H,Yan S,Wei J,Li X

更新日期：2014-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamics of silk protein in the presence and absence of water has been investigated by dielectric relaxation spectroscopy (DRS). The silk fibroin film cast from its water solution contains 4-7 wt % bound water molecules, which can be removed by dehydration at 165 °C. Temperature and frequency scans were performed ...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Yu L,Hu X,Kaplan D,Cebe P

更新日期：2010-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray analytical techniques are increasingly being used to study manuscripts and works of art on paper, whether with laboratory equipment or synchrotron sources. However, it is difficult to anticipate the impact of X-ray photons on paper- and cellulose-based artifacts, particularly due to the large variety of their co...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Gimat A,Schöder S,Thoury M,Missori M,Paris-Lacombe S,Dupont AL

更新日期：2020-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A new α-amylase from Rhizomucor sp. (RA) was studied in detail due to its very efficient hydrolysis of raw starch granules at low temperature (32 °C). RA contains a starch binding domain (SBD) connected to the core amylase catalytic domain by a O-glycosylated linker. The mode of degradation of native maize starch gran...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Tawil G,Viksø-Nielsen A,Rolland-Sabaté A,Colonna P,Buléon A

更新日期：2011-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The water-soluble arabinoxylans from wheat flour (high, medium, and low viscosity samples) and rye flour (high viscosity sample) were characterized by (1)H NMR spectroscopy and HPSEC with refractive index, light scattering, and viscometric detectors. These cereal arabinoxylans have recently been used as model arabinox...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Pitkänen L,Virkki L,Tenkanen M,Tuomainen P

更新日期：2009-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Decomposable hollow capsules based on deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and a low molecular weight organic molecule, a naturally occurring polyamine, spermidine (SP), were formed by applying the layer-by-layer adsorption strategy to colloid particles, viz., assembling DNA/SP multilayers on colloids and subsequently removing...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Schüler C,Caruso F

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combining poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) with sequence-defined peptides in PEG-peptide conjugates offers opportunities to realize next-generation drug formulation additives for overcoming undesired pharmacological profiles of difficult small molecule drugs. The tailored peptide segments provide sequence-specific, noncova...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Wieczorek S,Schwaar T,Senge MO,Börner HG

更新日期：2015-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant expression of histone deacetylases (HDACs) is related to various types of cancer and is associated with increased proliferation of tumor cells. Hence, the detection of HDAC activities is of great significance for medical sciences as well as biological diagnostics. Herein, we report a hyperbranched polyester-b...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Yu C,Wu Y,Zeng F,Li X,Shi J,Wu S

更新日期：2013-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A stepwise anticancer drug delivery system based on an injectable supramolecular hydrogel was presented. In this system, poly(ethylene glycol)-b-poly(acrylic acid) (PEG-b-PAA) block copolymer nanoparticles containing cisplatin were released by erosion of the hydrogels and then the cisplatin was released from the nanop...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Zhu W,Li Y,Liu L,Chen Y,Wang C,Xi F

更新日期：2010-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The extracellular matrix is an environment rich with structural, mechanical, and molecular signals that can impact cell biology. Traditional approaches in hydrogel biomaterial design often rely on modifying the concentration of cross-linking groups to adjust mechanical properties. However, this strategy provides limit...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Pedron S,Pritchard AM,Vincil GA,Andrade B,Zimmerman SC,Harley BA

更新日期：2017-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeted delivery of antigens to immune cells using micro/nanocarriers may serve as a therapeutic application for vaccination. However, synthetic carriers have potential drawbacks including cytotoxicity, low encapsulation efficiency of antigen, and lack of a morphological design, which limit the translation of the del...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Nishiguchi A,Shima F,Singh S,Akashi M,Moeller M

更新日期：2020-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a lack of hydrogel materials whose properties can be tuned at the point of use. Biological hydrogels, such as collagen, gelate at physiological temperatures; however, they are not always ideal as scaffolds because of their low mechanical strength. Their mechanics can be improved through cross-linking and chem...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Barnes AL,Genever PG,Rimmer S,Coles MC

更新日期：2016-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:First generation, photocrosslinkable dendrimers consisting of natural metabolites (i.e., succinic acid, glycerol, and beta-alanine) and nonimmunogenic poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) were synthesized divergently in high yields using ester and carbamate forming reactions. Aqueous solutions of these dendrimers were photocro...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Degoricija L,Bansal PN,Söntjens SH,Joshi NS,Takahashi M,Snyder B,Grinstaff MW

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer cells have a large amount of ROS (reactive oxygen species) because of disturbed ROS homeostasis. Cancer cells therefore undertake redox adaptation to drive proliferation in tumor environments and even survive during anticancer treatment by upregulating endogenous antioxidants. As one of antioxidant defense syst...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Noh J,Jung E,Lee J,Hyun H,Hong S,Lee D

更新日期：2019-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Solid-state NMR is especially useful when the structures of peptides and proteins should be analyzed by taking into account the structural distribution, that is, the distribution of the torsion angle of the individual residue. In this study, two-dimensional spin-diffusion solid-state NMR spectra of 13C-double-labeled ...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Ohgo K,Kawase T,Ashida J,Asakura T

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mycobacterial cell wall is extraordinarily thick and tight consisting mainly of (1). long chain fatty acids, the mycolic acids, and (2). a unique polysaccharide, arabinogalactan (AG). These two chemical constituents are covalently linked through ester bonds. Minnikin (The Biology of the Mycobacteria; Academic: Lon...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Hong X,Hopfinger AJ

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two poly(amido-amine)s (oligoPAM and oligoNER) containing bis-phosphonate residues were obtained by a Michael-type polyaddition of pamidronate and neridronate to 1,4-bis(acryloyl)piperazine. The SEC (size-exclusion chromatography) and the MALDI-TOF (matrix assisted laser desorption ionization) analyses were consistent...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Casolaro M,Casolaro I,Spreafico A,Capperucci C,Frediani B,Marcolongo R,Margiotta N,Ostuni R,Mendichi R,Samperi F,Ishii T,Ito Y

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes the preparation and the characterization of poly[ N-(2-hydroxypropyl methacrylamide)] hydrogel with bulk-modified saccharidic portion of ganglioside GM 3 (Neu5Ac-alpha2,3-Gal-beta1,4-Glc). The 3'-sialyllactose is a bioactive epitope recognized by many cell surface receptors on viruses, bacteria, a...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Woerly S,Fort S,Pignot-Paintrand I,Cottet C,Carcenac C,Savasta M

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New aspects concerning the mechanism of formation of chitosan physical hydrogels without any cross-linking agent were studied. The gelation took place during the evaporation of a hydroalcoholic solution of chitosan. We first demonstrated that it was possible to form a physical hydrogel from a hydrochloride form of chi...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Boucard N,Viton C,Domard A

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visible light-induced hydrogelation is attractive for various biomedical applications. In this study, hydrogels of alginate with phenolic hydroxyl groups (Alg-Ph) were obtained by irradiating a solution containing the polymer, ruthenium II trisbipyridyl chloride ([Ru(bpy)3]2+) and sodium persulfate (SPS), with visible...

journal_title：Biomacromolecules

authors： Sakai S,Kamei H,Mori T,Hotta T,Ohi H,Nakahata M,Taya M

更新日期：2018-02-12 00:00:00