Multiphysics modelling of volume phase transition of ionic hydrogels responsive to thermal stimulus.

abstract：:Plant derived flavonoids have not been well explored in tissue engineering applications due to difficulties in efficient formulations with biomaterials for controlled presentation. Here, the authors report that surface coating of epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) on polymeric substrates including poly (L-lactic acid) (P...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Madhurakkat Perikamana SK,Lee SM,Lee J,Ahmad T,Lee MS,Yang HS,Shin H

更新日期：2019-04-01 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：:Poly(vinyl alcohol)-pyrene-anti-metadherin (PVA-Py-(Anti-MTDH)), a novel antibody based water soluble probe containing both fluorescent and target sites in the structure for in vitro imaging of breast cancer cells is reported here. Since breast cancer cells have an excess of MDTH protein expressed on the surface, a PV...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Medine EI,Odaci D,Gacal BN,Gacal B,Sakarya S,Unak P,Timur S,Yagci Y

更新日期：2010-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Blend films of silk fibroin and carboxymethyl chitin were prepared by solution casting using water as a cosolvent. The blend films were subjected to post-treatment with an aqueous methanol solution to induce beta-sheet formation of silk fibroin. The miscibility of the blend films both before and after methanol treatme...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Wongpanit P,Tabata Y,Rujiravanit R

更新日期：2007-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:This work focuses on the development of ultrasound contrast vesicles for ultrasound-mediated enhanced transfection of nucleic acids in the cancer cells and projects its application as a tool for diagnostic imaging. The ultrasound contrast vesicles are stable, anionic, nanoscaled vesicles with ultrasound contrast equiv...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Shah H,Tariq I,Engelhardt K,Bakowsky U,Pinnapireddy SR

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multicomponent systems for self-assembled molecular gels provide huge opportunities to generate collective or new functions that are not inherent in individual single-component gels. However, gelation tends to require careful and complicated procedures, because, among a myriad of kinetically trapped structures related...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Hata Y,Kojima T,Maeda T,Sawada T,Serizawa T

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3D hydrogels better replicate in vivo conditions, and yield different results from 2D substrates. However, imaging interactions between cells and the hydrogel microenvironment is challenging because of light diffraction and poor focal depth. Here, cryosectioning and vibrating microtomy methods and fixation protocols a...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Short AR,Czeisler C,Stocker B,Cole S,Otero JJ,Winter JO

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The design and preparation of highly efficient drug delivery platforms using green methodologies is at the forefront of nanotherapeutics research. POxylated polyurea dendrimers are efficiently synthesized using a supercritical-assisted polymerization in carbon dioxide. These fluorescent, pH-responsive and water-solubl...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Restani RB,Conde J,Pires RF,Martins P,Fernandes AR,Baptista PV,Bonifácio VD,Aguiar-Ricardo A

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within this work, a new class of sequence-defined heteromultivalent glycomacromolecules bearing lactose residues and nonglycosidic motifs for probing glycoconjugate recognition in carbohydrate recognition domain (CRD) of galectin-3 is presented. Galectins, a family of β-galactoside-binding proteins, are known to play ...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Freichel T,Heine V,Laaf D,Mackintosh EE,Sarafova S,Elling L,Snyder NL,Hartmann L

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immobilization of enzymes into polymer hydrogels is a versatile approach to improve their stability and utility in biotechnological and biomedical applications. However, these systems typically show limited enzyme activity, due to unfavorable pore dimensions and low enzyme accessibility. Here, 3D jet writing of wa...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Steier A,Schmieg B,Irtel von Brenndorff Y,Meier M,Nirschl H,Franzreb M,Lahann J

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biorecognition-based control of attachment/detachment of MCF-7 cancer cells from polymer-coated surfaces is demonstrated. A glass surface is coated with a thermoresponsive statistical copolymer of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-acrylamide) [p(NIPAm-co-Am)], which is end-capped with the Gly-Arg-Gly-Asp-Ser (GRGDS) p...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Brunato S,Mastrotto F,Bellato F,Garofalo M,Göddenhenrich T,Mantovani G,Alexander C,Gross S,Salmaso S,Caliceti P

更新日期：2020-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:5,6-Bis(benzylideneamino)-2-mercaptopyrimidin-4-ol (SCR7) is a new anti cancer molecule having capability to selectively inhibit non-homologous end joining (NHEJ), one of the DNA double strand break (DSB) repair pathways inside the cells. In spite of the promising potential as an anticancer agent, hydrophobicity of SC...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： John F,George J,Vartak SV,Srivastava M,Hassan PA,Aswal VK,Karki SS,Raghavan SC

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An insoluble wheat proteins-based polymer networks with new functional groups and positive charges were prepared through grafting-coupling reactions. The networks were also flexible with a lower glass transition temperature since the existence of the grafted mobile segments. The multi-component/multi-phase systems bec...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Kurniawan L,Qiao GG,Zhang X

更新日期：2009-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past few decades, numerous polymer drug carrier systems are designed and synthesized, and their properties are evaluated. Many of these systems are based on water-soluble polymer carriers of low-molecular-weight drugs and compounds, e.g., cytostatic agents, anti-inflammatory drugs, or multidrug resistance inh...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Chytil P,Koziolová E,Etrych T,Ulbrich K

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-polymer conjugates are widely used to improve the pharmacokinetic properties of therapeutic proteins. Commercially available conjugates employ poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) as the protective polymer; however, PEG has a number of shortcomings, including non-biodegradability and immunogenicity, that call for the d...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Steinbach T,Becker G,Spiegel A,Figueiredo T,Russo D,Wurm FR

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HSVEC behavior under physiological shear stress in vitro is investigated on PET surfaces micropatterned with both RGDS and WQPPRARI peptides. This technique allows (i) creating geometries on surface to guide cell orientation under shear stress and (ii) controlling surface chemical composition in order to modulate cell...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Chollet C,Bareille R,Rémy M,Guignandon A,Bordenave L,Laroche G,Durrieu MC

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transparent, biodegradable, mechanically robust, and surface-patterned silk films were evaluated for the effect of surface morphology on human corneal fibroblast (hCF) cell proliferation, orientation, and ECM deposition and alignment. A series of dimensionally different surface groove patterns were prepared from optic...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Gil ES,Park SH,Marchant J,Omenetto F,Kaplan DL

更新日期：2010-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel cell-supporting scaffold, Tetronic-oligolactide-heparin (TLH) hydrogel, was prepared by coupling heparin to polymerized Tetronic-oligolactide for use in improving tissue regeneration. Aqueous TLH solutions showed thermosensitive behavior, demonstrating potential for use as injectable hydrogels. The content and...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Go DH,Joung YK,Lee SY,Lee MC,Park KD

更新日期：2008-12-08 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：:Gelatin-methacrylamide (gelMA) hydrogels are shown to support chondrocyte viability and differentiation and give wide ranging mechanical properties depending on several cross-linking parameters. Polymer concentration, UV exposure time, and thermal gelation prior to UV exposure allow for control over hydrogel stiffness...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Schuurman W,Levett PA,Pot MW,van Weeren PR,Dhert WJ,Hutmacher DW,Melchels FP,Klein TJ,Malda J

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comb-shaped glycopolymer/peptide bioconjugates are constructed by grafting reduced glutathione (GSH) onto acrylate-functional block glycocopolymers via thiol-ene click chemistry. In aqueous solution, the glycopolymer/GSH bioconjugate self-assembles to sugar-installed spherical micelles. The size of micelles decreases ...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Wang X,Liu L,Luo Y,Shi H,Li J,Zhao H

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excessive bilirubin in the body of patient with liver dysfunction or metabolic obstruction may cause jaundice with irreversible brain damage, and new type of adsorbent for bilirubin is under frequent investigation. Herein, graphene oxide based core @ polyethersulfone-based shell beads are fabricated by phase inversion...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： He C,Li M,Zhang J,Yan B,Zhao W,Sun S,Zhao C

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an urgent unmet medical need for new treatments for wound and burn infections caused by multidrug-resistant Gram-negative "superbugs," especially the problematic Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In this work, the incorporation of colistin, a potent lipopeptide into a self-healable hydrogel (via dynamic imine bond form...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Zhu C,Zhao J,Kempe K,Wilson P,Wang J,Velkov T,Li J,Davis TP,Whittaker MR,Haddleton DM

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents the reactive self-assembly of isocyanate functional and amphiphilic six-arm, star-shaped polyether prepolymers in water into nanogels. Intrinsic molecular amphiphilicity, mainly driven by the isophorone moiety at the distal endings of the star-shaped molecules, allows for the preparation of spheric...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Hildebrandt H,Paloheimo O,Mäntylä E,Willman S,Hakanen S,Albrecht K,Groll J,Möller M,Vihinen-Ranta M

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic resins have been extensively employed by artists in their works of art, e.g. as paint binders, or by conservators for conservation treatments, e.g. as stone consolidants and protectives. It is generally thought that synthetic resins are less prone to chemical, physical and biological deterioration than other...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Cappitelli F,Zanardini E,Sorlini C

更新日期：2004-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Extraction processes of natural fibers can be performed by different procedures that include mechanical, chemical and biological methods. Each method presents different advantages or drawbacks according to the amount of fiber produced or the quality and properties of fiber bundles obtained. In this study, biological n...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Gañán P,Zuluaga R,Velez JM,Mondragon I

更新日期：2004-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Photo-crosslinkable, fumaric acid monoethyl ester-functionalized triblock oligomers are synthesized and copolymerized with N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone to form biodegradable photo-crosslinked hydrogels. Poly(ethylene glycol) is used as the middle hydrophilic segment and the hydrophobic segments are based on D,L-lactide, trim...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Jansen J,Mihov G,Feijen J,Grijpma DW

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The random copolymer, poly[lactide-co-glycotide-co-(epsilon-caprolactone)] (PLGACL) diacrylate was prepared by ring-opening polymerization of L-lactide, glycolide, and epsilon-caprolactone initiated with tetra(ethylene glycol). The diacrylated polymers were extensively characterized. With a UV embossing method, these ...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Zhu A,Chen R,Chan-Park MB

更新日期：2006-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary human megakaryocytes, the precursor cells of platelets, are difficult to collect and cultivate. Polymers that enrich these cells without affecting their regulation or function are of interest for basic research as well as for cord blood transplantation purposes since co-transplantation of enriched megakaryocyt...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Hansen A,Corless S,Cleland A,Petrik J,Gilbert N,Bradley M

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different strategies of chemotherapeutics-based combination cancer therapy have presented enhanced antitumor efficiency and are widely used in clinical cancer treatments. However, several drawbacks of the systems for systemic administration, including low drug accumulation at tumor sites and significant systemic side ...

journal_title：Macromolecular bioscience

authors： Yu S,He C,Chen X

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00