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A Review of Recent Progress in Synthetic Polymer Surface Coatings for the Prevention of Biofilm Formation

Molecules
Bacterial adhesion and the subsequent formation of biofilms and biofouling have significant economic and health impacts across all sectors. They are especially impactful in industrial corrosion, healthcare, food processing, agriculture, and waste and ...
Adrienne Shea, Matthew T. Bernards
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Soft Lithography and Minimally Human Invasive Technique for Rapid Screening of Oral Biofilm Formation on New Microfabricated Dental Material Surfaces

International Journal of Dentistry, 2018
Introduction. Microfabrication offers opportunities to study surface concepts focused to reduce bacterial adhesion on implants using human minimally invasive rapid screening (hMIRS). Wide information is available about cell/biomaterial interactions using
Marta Alvarez-Escobar, Sidónio C. Freitas, Derek Hansford, Fernando J. Monteiro, Alejandro Pelaez-Vargas   +4 more
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Neisseria meningitidis differentially controls host cell motility through PilC1 and PilC2 components of type IV pili

, 2009
Neisseria meningitidis is a strictly human pathogen that has two facets since asymptomatic carriage can unpredictably turn into fulminant forms of infection.
Thomas F Meyer, Drab Marek, Meyer Thomas F., Nassif Xavier, Morand, P., Morand, Philippe C., Drab, Marek, Rajalingam, K., Meyer, T., Morand Philippe C., Xavier Nassif, Marek Drab, Drab, M., Philippe C Morand, Nassif, Xavier, Krishnaraj Rajalingam, Rajalingam Krishnaraj, Rajalingam, Krishnaraj, Nassif, X., Meyer, Thomas F.   +19 more
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One‐Step Microfluidic Manufactured Fucose‐Decorated Sweetosomes Choose the Time and the Road for Their Intracellular Journey to Cancer Treatment

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Sweetosomes, a new class of fucose‐decorated liposomes, are developed via a one‐step microfluidic process without surface chemistry. This study elucidates their main caveolae‐mediated entry and distinct endosomal trafficking. These nanostructures demonstrate superior endosomal escape, organelle acidity modulation, and prolonged plasma persistence ...
Mattia Tiboni, Mariele Montanari, Shiva Khorshid, Michele Verboni, Andrea Duranti, Simone Lucarini, Daniele Lopez, Annalisa Aluigi, Gianluca Morganti, Michele Menotta, Giovanna Panza, Daniel J. Klionsky, Barbara Canonico, Luca Casettari   +13 more
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Factors influencing bacterial adhesion to contact lenses [PDF]

, 2012
The process of any contact lens related keratitis generally starts with the adhesion of opportunistic pathogens to contact lens surface. This article focuses on identifying the factors which have been reported to affect bacterial adhesion to contact ...
Willcox, M, Dutta, D, Cole, NA, Willcox, MD, Cole, N   +4 more
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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
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Photothermal‐Activated Antibacterial Amyloid‐Polyphenol‐Iron Hydrogels for Synergistic Wound Healing

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
We report a thermally triggered supramolecular hydrogel (LTFe) formed by Fe3+ and tannic acid on lysozyme amyloid fibrils. Fe3+ enables rapid gelation and photothermal transduction with an efficiency of 88.56%. The LTFe hydrogel exhibits excellent biocompatibility, potent antibacterial activity against E. coli and S.
Di Wu, Jiangtao Zhou, Yang Shen, Qiyao Sun, Tong Li, Xiaoyang Zou, Bin Liu, Hongshan Liang, Raffaele Mezzenga   +8 more
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Epidermal Patch Technologies for Integrated Healthcare and Infection Management

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Epidermal patches have evolved from simple wound coverings into multifunctional, skin‐conformable platforms integrating drug delivery, biosensing, and therapeutic functionalities. This review highlights their material innovations, fabrication strategies, and intelligent designs, including hydrogels, microneedles, and flexible electronics, while ...
Yuqi Wang, Atakan Tevlek, Pawel L. Urban, Boaz Mizrahi, Onome Ejeromedoghene, Roshan Deen, Yuanjing Lin, Jagan Mohan Dodda   +7 more
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Surface modification of polyurethane biomaterials by ammonia plasma: bacterial adhesion and cellular response

JCIS Open
Polyurethanes (PUs) are versatile polymers widely used in biomedical applications due to their tunable properties. However, PU-based medical devices are susceptible to bacterial contamination, necessitating surface modifications to improve ...
Kamil Drożdż, Paulina Chytrosz-Wróbel, Divya Kumar, Andrzej Kotarba, Monika Brzychczy-Włoch   +4 more
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Bacterial Adhesion molecular and Ecological Diversity

, 1996
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Fletcher, Madilyin
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