Nanomaterials for the theranostics of obesity.

abstract：:Neurotrophic factors therapy requires their precise delivery to the targeted neuronal population. For this purpose, a wide range of strategies have been developed, and among them the stereotaxic implantation of biodegradable microparticles. To assess the in vivo activity of NGF-releasing PLGA microspheres, unloaded an...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Péan JM,Menei P,Morel O,Montero-Menei CN,Benoit JP

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic RGD peptide-decorated polymeric micellar-like nanoparticles (MNP) based on PEGylated poly (trimethylene carbonate) (PEG-PTMC) were prepared for active targeting to integrin-rich cancer cells. An amphiphilic diblock copolymer, α-carboxyl poly (ethylene glycol)-poly (trimethylene carbonate) (HOOC-PEG-PTMC), was s...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Jiang X,Sha X,Xin H,Chen L,Gao X,Wang X,Law K,Gu J,Chen Y,Jiang Y,Ren X,Ren Q,Fang X

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthetic peptide, Gly-Arg-Gly-Asp-Ser-Pro-Lys (GRGDSPK), which includes the cell-adhesive region of fibronectin, Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD), was covalently bound to a dialdehyde starch (DAS) coating on a polymer surface by reductive amination. The GRGDSPK/DAS-coated surface was characterized by atomic force microscopy (AFM)...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Holland J,Hersh L,Bryhan M,Onyiriuka E,Ziegler L

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Programmed cell death-ligand 1 (PD-L1)-based immune checkpoint blockade therapy using the anti-PD-L1 antibody is effective for a subset of patients with advanced metastatic melanoma but about half of the patients do not respond to the therapy because of the tumor immunosuppressive microenvironment. Immunogenic cell de...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Qiu N,Liu Y,Liu Q,Chen Y,Shen L,Hu M,Zhou X,Shen Y,Gao J,Huang L

更新日期：2020-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokines, chemokines, and growth factors were analyzed periodically over eight weeks from the wound exudate fluid surrounding biomaterials implanted subcutaneously within stainless steel mesh cages. TNF-alpha, MCP-1, MIP-1alpha, IL-2, IL-6, IL-1beta, VEGF, IL-4, and IL-10 were measured from exudate samples collected ...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Schutte RJ,Xie L,Klitzman B,Reichert WM

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To develop artificial materials for prolonged use in the vascular system, the complicated process of surface-induced thrombosis needs to be better understood. Steroidal hormones have a profound role in thrombosis and haemostasis, although adequate studies are not available to demonstrate their part in the thromboembol...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Sharma CP,Chandy T

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human umbilical cord vein segments have been used as vessel substitutes for damaged or occluded arteries, as aorto-coronary by-passes and as arterio-venous fistulae for dialysis. The Dardik-Biograft fixed with glutaraldehyde and the Mindich-Bioflow, fixed with ethanol and dialdehyde starch, are commercially available....

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Guidoin R,Marois M,Martin L,Noël HP,Laroche F,Gosselin CO,Côté R,Bénichoux R,Blais P

更新日期：1980-04-01 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：:Nanofiber scaffold-mediated delivery of small-interfering RNA (siRNA) holds great potential in regenerative medicine by providing biomimicking topographical signals and enhanced gene silencing effects to seeded cells. While the delivery of naked siRNA was demonstrated previously using poly (ε-caprolactone) (PCL) nanof...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Rujitanaroj PO,Wang YC,Wang J,Chew SY

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biomedical device-associated infection is one of the most common and problematic complications faced by millions of patients worldwide. The current antibiotic therapy strategies face challenges, the most serious of which is antibiotic resistance. Studies have shown that the systemic level of interleukin 12 (IL-12) dec...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Li B,Jiang B,Boyce BM,Lindsey BA

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there is great versatility of ultrasound (US) technologies in the real clinical field, one main technical challenge is the compromising of high quality of echo properties and size engineering of ultrasound contrast agents (UCAs); a high echo property is offset by reducing particle size. Herein, a new strategy...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Min HS,Son S,You DG,Lee TW,Lee J,Lee S,Yhee JY,Lee J,Han MH,Park JH,Kim SH,Choi K,Park K,Kim K,Kwon IC

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present work was to examine the effect of different Ti-6Al-4V surface treatments on osteoblasts behaviour. Previous work in this laboratory has demonstrated that an ageing treatment reduces metal ion release from this alloy compared to standard passivation procedures. In this study. human osteosarco...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Ku CH,Pioletti DP,Browne M,Gregson PJ

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A surface functionalization strategy that produces substrates with well-controlled ligand density is critical to investigating the role of cell-substrate interactions in regulating cell adhesion, viability, migration, proliferation and differentiation. Towards this end, we have designed and synthesized a triblock prot...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Fischer SE,Liu X,Mao HQ,Harden JL

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The changes in protein adsorption onto aluminium surfaces coated with different thicknesses of oxide layers were examined. The oxide layers on aluminium substrates were derived by the anodizing technique. Protein adsorption studies were conducted using 125I-labelled albumin and the amount of albumin adsorbed was estim...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Sharma CP,Sunny MC

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alginate hydrogels are used extensively in cell encapsulation, cell transplantation, and tissue engineering applications. Alginates possess many favorable properties required in biomaterials, but are unable to specifically interact with mammalian cells. We have therefore covalently modified alginate polysaccharides wi...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Rowley JA,Madlambayan G,Mooney DJ

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are the vital, life-long source of all blood cell types. They are found in stem cell niches, specific anatomic locations that offer all the factors and signals necessary for the maintenance of the stem cell potential of HSCs. Much attention has been paid to the biochemical composition o...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Altrock E,Muth CA,Klein G,Spatz JP,Lee-Thedieck C

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenesis plays a prominent role in cancer progression. Anti-angiogenic therapy therefore, either alone or in combination with conventional cytotoxic therapy, offers a promising therapeutic approach. Paclitaxel (PTX) is a widely-used potent cytotoxic drug that also exhibits anti-angiogenic effects at low doses. How...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Eldar-Boock A,Miller K,Sanchis J,Lupu R,Vicent MJ,Satchi-Fainaro R

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce a general class of mixture models suitable to describe water-dependent degradation and erosion of biodegradable polymers in conjunction with drug release. The ability to predict and quantify degradation and erosion has direct impact in a variety of biomedical applications and is a useful design tool for b...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Soares JS,Zunino P

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modeling the interaction between the supportive stroma and the hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPC) is of high interest in the regeneration of the bone marrow niche in blood disorders. In this work, we present an injectable co-culture system to study this interaction in a coherent in vitro culture and in viv...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Tavakol DN,Tratwal J,Bonini F,Genta M,Campos V,Burch P,Hoehnel S,Béduer A,Alessandrini M,Naveiras O,Braschler T

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skeletal muscle is a highly organized tissue in which the extracellular matrix (ECM) is composed of highly-aligned cables of collagen with nanoscale feature sizes, and provides structural and functional support to muscle fibers. As such, the transplantation of disorganized tissues or the direct injection of cells into...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Yang HS,Ieronimakis N,Tsui JH,Kim HN,Suh KY,Reyes M,Kim DH

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of trauma-associated nerve defects is difficult because of the absence of autologous donor motor or sensory nerves. Pre-clinical development and clinical experience has shown that damaged nerves can be surgically repaired using a tubular conduit interposed across the defect. Acceptable patient outcomes ...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Sierpinski P,Garrett J,Ma J,Apel P,Klorig D,Smith T,Koman LA,Atala A,Van Dyke M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The translation of experimental stroke research from the laboratory to successful clinical practice remains a formidable challenge. We previously reported that PEGylated-lipid nanoparticles (PLNs) effectively transport across the blood-brain barrier along with less inflammatory responses. In the present study, PLNs co...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Lu YM,Huang JY,Wang H,Lou XF,Liao MH,Hong LJ,Tao RR,Ahmed MM,Shan CL,Wang XL,Fukunaga K,Du YZ,Han F

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increasing number of treatments of metastases rely on diagnostics and imaging these days. The facts that the activity of cathepsin B (CB) is markedly linked to the metastatic process and that CB is found highly expressed in the pericellular regions in this process make CB an attractive target for diagnosing metasta...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Ryu JH,Na JH,Ko HK,You DG,Park S,Jun E,Yeom HJ,Seo DH,Park JH,Jeong SY,Kim IS,Kim BS,Kwon IC,Choi K,Kim K

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell processes, including growth cones, respond to biophysical cues in their microenvironment to establish functional tissue architecture and intercellular networks. The mechanisms by which cells sense and translate biophysical cues into directed growth are unknown. We used photopolymerization to fabricate methacrylat...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Li S,Tuft BW,Xu L,Polacco MA,Clarke JC,Guymon CA,Hansen MR

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of polymer and copolymer networks with varying hydrophilicity and distribution of the hydrophilic groups was synthesized and biologically tested with monolayer culture of human chondrocytes in vitro. Cell viability (MTT), proliferation (BrdU incorporation) and aggrecan expression (PG ELISA) were quantified at...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Pérez Olmedilla M,Garcia-Giralt N,Pradas MM,Ruiz PB,Gómez Ribelles JL,Palou EC,García JC

更新日期：2006-03-01 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：:The limited intrinsic repair capacity of articular cartilage has stimulated continuing efforts to develop tissue engineered analogues. Matrices composed of type II collagen and chondroitin sulfate (CS), the major constituents of hyaline cartilage, may create an appropriate environment for the generation of cartilage-l...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Pieper JS,van der Kraan PM,Hafmans T,Kamp J,Buma P,van Susante JL,van den Berg WB,Veerkamp JH,van Kuppevelt TH

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are few suitable techniques available to sterilize biodegradable polyester three-dimensional tissue engineering scaffolds because they are susceptible to degradation and/or morphological degeneration by high temperature and pressure. We used a novel polyllactide-co-glycolide) scaffold (Osteofoam) to determine th...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Holy CE,Cheng C,Davies JE,Shoichet MS

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To broaden the clinical application of cartilage regenerative medicine, we should develop an implant-type tissue-engineered cartilage with firmness and 3-D structure. For that, we attempted to use a porous biodegradable polymer scaffold in the combination with atelocollagen hydrogel, and optimized the structure and co...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Tanaka Y,Yamaoka H,Nishizawa S,Nagata S,Ogasawara T,Asawa Y,Fujihara Y,Takato T,Hoshi K

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human platelet lysates (PLs), which contain multiple neurotrophins, have been proposed for treating neurodegenerative disorders, including Parkinson's disease (PD). However, current PLs suspended in plasma have high protein content and contain fibrinogen/fibrin and, following activation, also proteolytic and thromboge...

journal_title：Biomaterials

authors： Chou ML,Wu JW,Gouel F,Jonneaux A,Timmerman K,Renn TY,Laloux C,Chang HM,Lin LT,Devedjian JC,Devos D,Burnouf T

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00