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Respiratory Organ‐on‐a‐Chip for Disease Modeling: From Architecture to Functional Integration

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Respiratory organ‐on‐a‐chip (ROC) models capture key mechanical and cellular cues of the human respiratory system, enabling quantitative dissection of disease mechanisms. This review links ROC architectures to disease modeling, functional integration, and commercialization, and proposes a decision framework that aligns model complexity with mechanistic
Jinzhuo Hu, Yongjie Tang, Sidi Liu, Tao Xu, Qian Liu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mucociliary Clearance Scans Show Infants Undergoing Congenital Cardiac Surgery Have Poor Airway Clearance Function

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2021
Background: Infants undergoing congenital cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass are at high risk for respiratory complications. As impaired airway mucociliary clearance (MCC) can potentially contribute to pulmonary morbidity, our study objective ...
Phillip S. Adams, Timothy E. Corcoran, Jiuann-Huey Lin, Daniel J. Weiner, Joan Sanchez-de-Toledo, Cecilia W. Lo   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Profile of sugammadex for reversal of neuromuscular blockade in the elderly: Current perspectives [PDF]

, 2017
The number of elderly patients is increasing worldwide. This will have a significant impact on the practice of anesthesia in future decades. Anesthesiologists must provide care for an increasing number of elderly patients, who have an elevated risk of ...
Bertoncello, Francesco, Carron, Michele, Ieppariello, Giovanna   +2 more
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Microengineered Gradient Hydrogels for Mechanobiology

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Gradient hydrogels are used to mimic the mechanical heterogeneity in native tissues, offering powerful in vitro platforms to study cell‐material interactions in diverse pathophysiological contexts. Here, we present a comprehensive review of the design and experimental considerations for stiffness gradient hydrogels, discussing exemplary achievements ...
Shin Wei Chong, Deepu Ashok, Anna Waterhouse, Marcela M. M. Bilek, Daniele Vigolo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Realizing the physics of motile cilia synchronization with driven colloids

, 2015
Cilia and flagella in biological systems often show large scale cooperative behaviors such as the synchronization of their beats in "metachronal waves".
Bruot, Nicolas, Cicuta, Pietro
core   +3 more sources

Rapid Fabrication of Self‐Propelled and Steerable Magnetic Microcatheters for Precision Medicine

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A rapid Joule heating fabrication method for the production of self‐propelling, adaptive microcatheters, with tunable stiffness and integrated microfluidic channels is presented. Demonstrated through three microrobotic designs, including a steerable guiding catheter, an untethered wave‐crawling TubeBot, and a distal‐end propelled microcatheter, it was ...
Zhi Chen, Boris Rivkin, David Castellanos‐Robles, Ivan Soldatov, Lukas Beyer, Mariana Medina‐Sánchez   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Elastomeric Micro‐Balloons for Remote Control of Cerebral Blood Flow and Real‐Time In vivo Imaging of Rodent Brain Response to Hypoperfusion

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This study reports the fabrication of MRI‐compatible elastomeric micro‐balloons via a multi‐step bubble casting process, where the monolithic elastomeric wall is selectively stiffened for reversible and controlled inflation and elasticity, depending on the target vessels for graded occlusion of cerebral arteries.
Jong Bin Kim, Jinghui Wang, Yinding Chi, Jingxian Wu, Alicia Ng, Guanda Qiao, Honglin Tan, Miroslaw Janowski, Piotr Walczak, Yajie Liang, Shu Yang   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Should the physiotherapy outcomes airway clearance, physical activity and fitness be recorded on the Australian Cystic Fibrosis Data Registry? A consensus approach

BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2021
Background Physiotherapy is a cornerstone of cystic fibrosis (CF) management, yet the Australian CF Data Registry (ACFDR) currently does not record physiotherapy-related data.
Angela Potter, Bhavita Pancholi, Lahni Smith, Carol Maher   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Olfactory evaluation in obstructive sleep apnoea patients [PDF]

, 2018
The sense of smell has a high impact on the quality of life. The aim of the present study was to investigate olfactory dysfunction in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS) and correlate the severity of disease with olfactory dysfunction.
ANGELETTI, DILETTA, CIOFALO, Andrea, de Vincentiis, M., Iannella, G., Magliulo, Giuseppe, Manno, A., PASQUARIELLO, BENEDETTA, Polimeni, A.   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Structure and function relationships of mucociliary clearance in human and rat airways

Nature Communications
Mucociliary clearance is a vital defense mechanism of the human airways, protecting against harmful particles and infections. When this process fails, it contributes to respiratory diseases like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma ...
Doris Roth, Ayşe Tuğçe Şahin, Feng Ling, Niels Tepho, Christiana N. Senger, Erik J. Quiroz, Ben A. Calvert, Anne M. van der Does, Tankut G. Güney, Sarah Glasl, Annemarie van Schadewijk, Laura von Schledorn, Ruth Olmer, Eva Kanso, Janna C. Nawroth, Amy L. Ryan   +15 more
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