Suppression of cell and platelet adhesion to star-shaped 8-armed poly(ethylene glycol)-poly(L-lactide) block copolymer films.

abstract：:Peptide dendrimers assembled by solid-phase peptide synthesis using a branching diamino acid at every 2(nd) or 3(rd) position provide readily accessible synthetic model systems for proteins and enzymes. They adopt a globular shape by topology rather than by folding. Peptide dendrimers of 2(nd) and 3(rd) generation fun...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Delort E,Szöcs E,Widmer R,Siegenthaler H,Reymond JL

更新日期：2007-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggregation is frequently encountered during coating nanoparticles, especially when the core is not solid and the coating polyelectrolytes are weak. Here, the coating of a nanoliposome with two weak polyelectrolytes, alginate and chitosan, is investigated. First, quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation, atomic fo...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Nayef L,Castiello R,Tabrizian M

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For use in micro-patterned scaffolds in tissue engineering, novel diacrylated triblock macromers (PLA-b-PCL-b-PLA, PGA-b-PCL-b-PGA and PCL-b-PEO-b-PCL) were synthesized and characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) and gel permeation chromatography (...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Chan-Park MB,Zhu AP,Shen JY,Fan AL

更新日期：2004-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The preparation of a novel peptide/dendrimer hybrid is reported in which an elastin-like oligopeptide is successfully assembled onto a poly(amidoamine) dendrimer surface (G4-ELP), and its unique thermo-responsive behavior is discussed. As a result, the G4-ELP is found to exhibit LCST behavior in the pH range 3-10 incl...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Koga T,Iimura M,Higashi N

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we formed and characterized dynamic hydrogel microspheres in which a protein conformational change was used to control microsphere volume changes and the release of an encapsulated drug. In particular, a specific biochemical ligand, trifluoperazine, induced calmodulin's nanometer scale conformation chang...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： King WJ,Pytel NJ,Ng K,Murphy WL

更新日期：2010-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A CMB monomer was polymerized on a glass plate with a surface-confined ATRP initiator containing a 2-bromoisobutyryl group. The glass plate modified with a PCMB brush was highly hydrophilic and showed a strong resistance against non-specific adsorption of proteins and cell adhesion. Upon ion beam irradiation, furtherm...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Kitano H,Suzuki H,Kondo T,Sasaki K,Iwanaga S,Nakamura M,Ohno K,Saruwatari Y

更新日期：2011-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The phase behavior of a water/hydroxypropyl cellulose/maleic acid-styrene copolymer (H2O/HPC/MAc-S) system was investigated in the semi-dilute range by turbidimetry, rheology, and optical microscopy. The two polymers under investigation form interpolymer complexes via hydrogen bonding. In the case of a total polymer c...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Bumbu GG,Eckelt J,Wolf BA,Vasile C

更新日期：2005-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Reaction of a beta-(1 --> 4) linked galactan with TDMS chloride followed by methylation and desilylation yields methyl galactans with unconventional functionalization patterns. The products were characterized via FTIR and NMR of the intact polymer and by CE after controlled depolymerization. A TDMS-derivatized methyl ...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Koschella A,Inngjerdingen K,Paulsen BS,Morris GA,Harding SE,Heinze T

更新日期：2008-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Injectable delivery systems have been widely used in tissue engineering as they can deliver cells into the body in a minimally invasive manner. In this study, it is hypothesized that microspheres with a similar size of cells could effectively form a shear reversible aggregate in the presence of cells and the aggregate...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Woo E,Park H,Lee KY

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chitosan is non-toxic, biocompatible, and biodegradable polysaccharide from renewable resources, known to have inherent antibacterial activity, which is mainly due to its polycationic nature. The combining of all assets of chitosan and its derivatives with the unique properties of electrospun nanofibrous materials is ...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Ignatova M,Manolova N,Rashkov I

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of glycopolymer-functionalized resins (Resin-Glc), as a solid support, in column mode for bacterial/protein capture and quantification is explored. The Resin-Glc is synthesized from commercially available chloromethylated polystyrene resin and glycopolymer, and is characterized by fourier transform infrared sp...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Ajish JK,Abraham HM,Subramanian M,Kumar KSA

更新日期：2020-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the early 1980s, research on the modification of bone implant surfaces by applying coatings has mainly focused on the application of inorganic calcium phosphate (CaP) coatings using physical deposition techniques. Organic components of the extracellular bone matrix, on the other hand, play an essential role in t...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Nijhuis AW,Leeuwenburgh SC,Jansen JA

更新日期：2010-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last decade, substantial research in the field of post-plasma grafting surface modification has focussed on the introduction of carboxylic acids on surfaces by grafting acrylic acid (AAc). In the present work, we report on an alternative approach for biomaterial surface functionalisation. Thin poly-ε-caprolacto...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Desmet T,Billiet T,Berneel E,Cornelissen R,Schaubroeck D,Schacht E,Dubruel P

更新日期：2010-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Uniform stereo-complex microparticles ranging from nanometer to micrometer size are prepared by using stereo multiblock co-poly(rac-lactide)s (smb-PLAs) with different stereo-regularity. At comparable molecular weights, as the smb-PLA stereo-regularity decreases from 88% to 76%, the crystallinity of the microparticles...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Hu J,Tang Z,Qiu X,Han Y,Du Q,Chen X,Jing X

更新日期：2005-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly[(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate] (P(3HB)) and its copolymers are accumulated by a wide variety of microorganisms as intracellular carbon and energy material, and are extensively studied as biodegradable and biocompatible thermoplastics. However, these microbial polyesters have not been recognized as practical because of th...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Iwata T

更新日期：2005-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Silk fibroin is a useful protein polymer for biomaterials and tissue engineering. In this work, porogen leached scaffolds prepared from aqueous and HFIP silk solutions were reinforced through the addition of silk particles. This led to about 40 times increase in the specific compressive modulus and the yield strength ...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Rajkhowa R,Gil ES,Kluge J,Numata K,Wang L,Wang X,Kaplan DL

更新日期：2010-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial transglutaminase (mTG) and mushroom tyrosinase (MT) are used to crosslink B. mori silk fibroin/gelatin (SF/G) films. Crosslinked and uncrosslinked SF/G films show no phase separation. The thermal behavior and the conformational structure of SF/G films are strongly affected by blending and enzymatic treatment...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Taddei P,Chiono V,Anghileri A,Vozzi G,Freddi G,Ciardelli G

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Controlled delivery of multiple growth factors (GFs) holds great potential for the clinical treatment of ischemic diseases and might be more therapeutically effective to reestablish vasculature than the provision of a single GF. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) are two poten...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Awada HK,Johnson NR,Wang Y

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three types of multilayer films made from poly(L-lysine)/hyaluronan, chitosan/hyaluronan, and poly(allylamine hydrochloride)/poly(L-glutamic acid), were used to investigate the interplay between film mechano-chemical properties and cell adhesion. We showed that C2C12 myoblast adhesion and proliferation depended on the...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Boudou T,Crouzier T,Nicolas C,Ren K,Picart C

更新日期：2011-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) is an important protein for wound healing and angiogenesis in tissue engineering, but the lack of a viable delivery system hampers its clinical application. This study aims to maintain the long-term controlled release of bFGF by utilizing a collagen/heparin bi-affinity multilayer ...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Hao W,Han J,Chu Y,Huang L,Zhuang Y,Sun J,Li X,Zhao Y,Chen Y,Dai J

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The material surface must be considered in the design of scaffolds for bone tissue engineering so that it supports bone cells adhesion, proliferation and differentiation. A biomimetic approach has been developed as a 3D surface modification technique to grow partially carbonated hydroxyapatite (the bonelike mineral) i...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Zhang R,Ma PX

更新日期：2004-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel water-insoluble, and reduction-responsive nonwoven scaffolds were fabricated from gamma-PGA and tested in cell culture. An electrospinning method was developed to produce scaffolds of fibers with diameters of 0.05-0.5 microm. Crosslinking of the fibers with cystamine in the presence of EDC resulted in water-inso...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Yoshida H,Klinkhammer K,Matsusaki M,Möller M,Klee D,Akashi M

更新日期：2009-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work we report, compare and discuss the results obtained from fully atomistic molecular dynamics simulations of generations 4, 5, and 6 of PAMAM-based dendrimers having NH(3) and triethanolamine as cores, forming complexes with a short interfering RNA (siRNA) at different pH values and at physiological ionic ...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Karatasos K,Posocco P,Laurini E,Pricl S

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bleeding complications usually cause significant morbidity and mortality in civilian and military populations. In clinical application, hemostatic sponges, gauzes, hydrogel, and bandages are widely used as the traditional effective hemostatic products for hemorrhage. However, the traditional hemostatic devices or agen...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Chen Y,Wu L,Li P,Hao X,Yang X,Xi G,Liu W,Feng Y,He H,Shi C

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biopolymers are an attractive class of compounds for being used in biomedical applications as they are widely available from biomass. Their drawback is the lack of mechanical stability and the ability to tune this properly. Covalent chemical cross-linking is an often used approach but it limits usability due to legisl...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Kühn PT,Meijer TL,Schiavon I,van Poll M,van Aken J,Groen S,Kuijer R,van Kooten TG,van Rijn P

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The design of a novel polymer-modified overlayer composed of PPAPE and GPMS on a silicon wafer for immobilization of DNA molecules is described. After hydroxylation of Si(100) surfaces, GPMS molecules were self-assembled onto these surfaces. PPAPE molecules were then covalently attached to the epoxy-terminated surface...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Demirel GB,Coşkun S,Kalkan M,Caykara T

更新日期：2009-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:O-carboxymethylchitin (molecular weight = 1.07 x 10(5), degree of carboxymethylation = 80%, degree of N-acetylation = 91%) was chemically attached to superoxide dismutase by the formation of amide linkages through a carbodiimide catalyzed reaction. The glycosidated enzyme contained about 1.8 mole of polysaccharide per...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Valdivia A,Perez Y,Dominguez A,Caballero J,Gomez L,Schacht EH,Villalonga R

更新日期：2005-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In drug delivery to the human brain, blood vessels are a significant hurdle because they restrict the entry of most solutes to protect brain. To overcome this hurdle, an in vitro 3D model for brain endothelial barrier is developed using a microfluidic device with hydrogel providing a 3D extracellular matrix scaffold. ...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Chung B,Kim J,Nam J,Kim H,Jeong Y,Liu HW,Cho Y,Kim YH,Oh HJ,Chung S

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An arginine-leucine block copolypeptide (R60 L20 ) is synthesized, which is capable of forming vesicles with controllable sizes, able to transport hydrophilic cargo across the cell membrane, and exhibit relatively low cytotoxicity. The R60 L20 vesicles also possess the ability to deliver DNA into mammalian cells for t...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Sun VZ,Choe UJ,Rodriguez AR,Dai H,Deming TJ,Kamei DT

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to impart antibacterial properties to microfibrous electrospun materials from styrene/maleic anhydride copolymers, quaternized chitosan derivatives (QCh) containing alkyl substituents of different chain lengths are covalently attached to the mats. A complete inhibition of the growth of bacteria, S. aureus (Gr...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Ignatova M,Petkova Z,Manolova N,Markova N,Rashkov I

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00