Patterned layers of adsorbed extracellular matrix proteins: influence on mammalian cell adhesion.

abstract：:Shape memory alloys (SMA) are being increasingly used in various industrial applications as actuators, connectors, or damping materials. In the medical field, superelastic devices such as eyeglass frames, stents or guide catheters have come to market in the recent years. The design of SMA devices has usually been base...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Trochu F,Brailovski V,Meunier MA,Terriault P,Qian YY

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arrhythmia diagnosis is very significant to ensure human health. In this paper, a new model is developed for arrhythmia diagnosis. A salient feature of the algorithm is a synergistic combination of statistical and fuzzy set-based techniques. It is distribution-free and is realized in an unsupervised mode. Arrhythmia d...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Li F,Zheng D,Zhao T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the organism epithelia perform perfect barrier functions. Strong rheological and mechanical influences constitute the normal environment of this tissue throughout life. Most epithelia are exposed to different fluids at the luminal and basal sides. To obtain realistic information about tissue development in modern b...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Minuth WW,Schumacher K,Strehl R

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Surface replication is a nondestructive evaluation technique applied in examining surface wear by recording surface irregularities, especially in conditions when surfaces of interest cannot be further manipulated to fit directly under a microscope to be examined. Enamel is the outermost protective layer of t...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Ijbara M,Wada K,Wada J,Jayawardena JA,Miyashin M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Facial nerve paralysis is a common disease due to nerve damage. Most approaches for evaluating the degree of facial paralysis rely on a set of different facial movements as commanded by doctors. Therefore, automatic recognition of the patterns of facial movement is fundamental to the evaluation of the degree of facial...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Wang T,Dong J,Sun X,Zhang S,Wang S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of the study was to determine material constants of cancellous tissue in a compression test taking into account stress-strain characteristics. The nineteen test samples were resected from a femoral head of a patient qualified for a hip replacement surgery. During the compression tests, load-displacement curve...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Kokot G,Makuch A,Skalski K,Bańczerowski J

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnesium has attracted a lot of attention as a new class of biodegradable material. The surface properties of magnesium in simulated body fluid (SBF) were investigated in the current research work. Cast magnesium samples with different surface characteristics were prepared which were then placed in SBF for 2, 4 and 8...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Sana A,Malik I,Mujahid M,Akram MA,Adeel Umer M

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work evaluated the effects of UV irradiation, plasma radiation, steam and 70% ethanol treatments on the sterilization and integrity of auto-crosslinked hyaluronic acid (HA-ACP) scaffolds structured in microparticles and sponges aiming in vivo applications for regenerative medicine of bone tissue. The integrity of...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Shimojo AA,de Souza Brissac IC,Pina LM,Lambert CS,Santana MH

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To select tag single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within and around human p75 neurotrophin receptor (p75NTR) gene in Chinese Han population, the sequence involving p75NTR gene as well as the upstream and downstream of the gene was identified according to the data from National Center for Biotechnology Information (...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Wang YT,Lu XM,Shu YH,Xiao L,Chen KT

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sunscreens that absorb UV light without photodegradation could reduce skin cancer. Polyvinyl silsesquioxanes are known to have greater thermal and photochemical stability than organic compounds, such as those in sunscreens. This paper evaluates the UV transparency of vinyl silsesquioxanes (VS) and its hybrids with SiO...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Wang H,Lin D,Wang D,Hu L,Huang Y,Liu L,Loy DA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyaluronic acid (HA) was used as an internal phase additive to improve the loading efficiency of ofloxacin, a hydrophilic drug encapsulated by hydrophobic polylactic-co-glycolic acid (PLGA) materials, through a double emulsion (water-in-oil-in-water) solvent extraction/evaporation method. Results from laser distributi...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Wu G,Chen L,Li H,Wang YJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Correlation-based feature selection (CFS) using neighborhood mutual information (NMI) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) are combined into an ensemble technique in this paper. Based on this observation, an efficient gene selection algorithm, denoted by NMICFS-PSO, is proposed. Several cancer recognition tasks are g...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Xu J,Sun L,Gao Y,Xu T

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to design a statistical segmentation technique to allow extraction of grey matter, white matter and cerebral spinal fluid volumes from diffusion tensor imaging. Four channel maps of the DTI are used as the input features, which provide more information for brain tissue segmentation compared wi...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Wen Y,He L

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) mathematically forms a large-scale optimization problem. The development of an IMRT plan is computationally expensive resulting in time-consuming, inefficient, and difficult to develop high-quality IMRT plans. By combining prior knowledge with proposed novel measures derive...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Zhou Z,Chen Y,Yu Z,Wang D,Zhao C,Xu J,Song W,Li B,Shen J,Zhu X

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequent occurrence of breast cancer and its serious consequences have attracted worldwide attention in recent years. Problems such as low rate of accuracy and poor self-adaptability still exist in traditional diagnosis. In order to solve these problems, an AdaBoost-SVM classification algorithm, combined with the ...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Li P,Bi T,Huang J,Li S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous literatures have indicated that hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) neurons are important for regulating the level of sympathetic and vagal nervous activity. Sympathovagal balance is closely related to heart rate variability (HRV). However, it still requires further elucidation regarding the effect of ...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Deng X,Feng X,Li S,Gao Y,Yu B,Li G

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The finite element (FE) method has been widely used to investigate the mechanism of traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), because it is technically difficult to quantify the responses of the brain tissues to the impact in experiments. One of technical challenges to build a FE model of a human head is the modeling of the ce...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Wu JZ,Pan CS,Wimer BM,Rosen CL

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electroencephalograph (EEG) signals feature extraction and processing is one of the most difficult and important part in the brain-computer interface (BCI) research field. EEG signals are generally unstable, complex and have low signal-noise ratio, which is difficult to be analyzed and processed. To solve this problem...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Wei Y,Jun Y,Lin S,Hong L

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Commercially pure titanium (CPT) substrate was subjected to porcelain firing and bond strengths under three-point bending mode (span length: 15 mm; crosshead speed: 0.5 mm/min) were evaluated. Experimental variables included surface treatments of CPT and porcelain firing schedules. Variables for the surface treatments...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Oshida Y,Fung LW,Isikbay SC

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a wet method, we have synthesized octacalcium phosphate carbonate, in which HPO42- in octacalcium phosphate is replaced with CO32-. The physical, crystal, and chemical properties of this new material were compared to octacalcium phosphate, Ca-deficient hydroxyapatite, and Ca-deficient carbonate apatite using X-r...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Shen D,Horiuchi N,Nozaki S,Miyashin M,Yamashita K,Nagai A

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Age is the most important risk factor for primary osteoarthritis (OA). Members of the TGF-β superfamily play a crucial role in chondrocyte differentiation and maintenance of healthy articular cartilage. OBJECTIVE:We have investigated whether age-related changes in TGF-β superfamily signaling components play...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： van der Kraan PM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reoperation of aldehyde tanned bioprotheses due to calcific degeneration remains their major drawback. Based on experiments studying mechanisms and factors that influence the time phase, extent and progression of calcification and evaluating the efficiency of anticalcification treatments and the effects of surface see...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Dahm M,Rühe J,Berchthold B,Prüfer D,Prucker O,Chang BJ,Wallrath A,Oelert H

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, a new method for individual tooth segmentation was proposed. The proposed method is composed of enhancement and extraction of boundary and seed of watershed algorithm using trisection areas by morphological characteristic of teeth. The watershed algorithm is one of the conventional methods for tooth seg...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Na SD,Lee G,Lee JH,Kim MN

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skilled behavior is difficult or impossible to articulate explicitly by the performers. Likewise biomechanical models of skilled motor actions are often limited by the lack of knowledge of the underlying mechanisms. A 'behavioral cloning' technique is described, based on a trained artificial neural network (ANN), that...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Andrews BJ,Davoodi R,Kamnik R,Bajd T

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The balance between extracellular inorganic phosphate (ePi) and extracellular inorganic pyrophosphate (ePPi) is controlled by four membrane proteins: the transporters ANK (exporting PPi outside the cells) and PiT-1 (importing ePi into the cells), and the enzymes PC-1 (generating ePPi from nucleotides) and Tissue Non-s...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Hamade T,Bianchi A,Sebillaud S,Netter P,Jouzeau JY,Cailotto F

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper explores mouse kidney imaging with diffraction enhanced imaging (DEI) and inline outline X-ray imaging (IOXI) technology, and evaluates latent value of kidney imaging with phase contrast imaging technology. In our experiment, spatial resolution and tissue contrast serve as element evaluation and comparison....

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Xia C,Peng YF,Arun KY,Xiao T,Zhu P,He W

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As an injectable scaffold material for bone tissue engineering, calcium phosphate cement (CPC) has good biocompatibility, self-setting, and osteoconduction properties. Alginate-microencapsulated seed cells can pick up the degradation speed and bioactivity of CPC. The aim of this study was to explore the osteogenic abi...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Wang J,Qiao P,Dong L,Li F,Xu T,Xie Q

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The method used in this paper is developed to estimate the degree of viscoelasticity of the blood vessel wall in a noninvasive mechanical method. In this proposed method, we can obtain an output waveform connected with mechanical behavior of blood vessels by using Ultrasonic Doppler Effect Sensory (UDES). Characterizi...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Yoshinari H,Yokobori AT Jr,Ohkuma T

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The values of the propagation coefficient measured on a silicon rubber tube in the frequency range 1-15 Hz were compared, using four different equations. The first formula is based on three simultaneous pressure measurements performed at equidistant points; the remaining three equations are original, and make use of o...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Ursino M,Artioli E

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly(N-substituted alpha/beta-asparagine) was evaluated as a thermoresponsible and an injectable scaffold for cartilage regeneration. Solutions of this polymer are liquid state below 25 degrees C and nonfluid hydrogel above 35 degrees C, allowing an aqueous solution containing cells at room temperature to form a hydro...

journal_title：Bio-medical materials and engineering

authors： Chueh SK,Tachibana Y,Uyama H,Kobayashi S,Tomita N

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00