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Supramolecular Engineering of Fluid Pressure in Filamentous Hybrid Double Network Hydrogels for 3D Chondrocyte Culture

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Inspired by the water‐rich and interconnected biopolymer networks of native load‐bearing tissues, we disclose a connectable design for a hybrid filamentous supramolecular and covalent double network hydrogel generated through in situ photopolymerization.
Ciqing Tong, Ying Chen, Merel L. Janssen, Isabel Sariol, Joeri A. J. Wondergem, Marijn van den Brink, Mertcan Özel, Rob G. H. H. Nelissen, Ingrid Meulenbelt, Doris Heinrich, Yolande F. M. Ramos, Roxanne E. Kieltyka   +11 more
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Imperativos da beleza: corpo feminino, cultura fitness e a nova eugenia

Cadernos Cedes
Este texto se propõe a discutir os atuais imperativos da beleza feminina, evidenciando marcas de uma nova eugenia em meio à cultura fitness. Para tanto, utilizo textos de Renato Kehl, destacado eugenista brasileiro que, em meio a seus escritos, propõe a ...
André Luiz Dos S. Silva
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Bioengineered 3D hPSC‐Cholangiocyte Ducts With Physiological Signals for Biliary Disease Modeling

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Tian and colleagues generated a bioengineered bile duct from human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC)‐derived intrahepatic cholangiocytes within a high‐throughput, 384‐well platform to systematically examine the influence of biliary physiological signals including fluid flow, stromal cells and bile acids, and models intrahepatic biliary disease progression ...
Britney Tian, Mina Ogawa, Manami Kondo, Gabrielle Langeveld, Ling Jun Huan, Feng Zhang, Andrew Hollinger, Sara Deir, Christine Bear, Boyang Zhang, Shinichiro Ogawa   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Salvation of Europe is (Found) in Beauty?

Kultura (Skopje), 2014
In this essay Dostoevsky’s famous utterance, “Beauty will save the world”, from his novel The Idiot (1869) is being analyzed, namely, by examining the interpretations of this utterance in the works of Solovyov and Solzhenitsyn.
Ivan Djeparoski
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A Parallax View on Eastern Orthodox Aesthetics: From the Ethos of Liturgical Art to Dionysis Savvopoulos’ Aesthetic Eschatology

Religions
This study explores Eastern Orthodox aesthetics through a parallax lens, situating it at the intersection of theology, anthropology, and cultural practice to move beyond the icon-centric discourse.
Sotiris Mitralexis
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From made in Italy to etno-chic. Some thoughts on costume design in contemporary Italian cinema (class, gender and national identity) [PDF]

, 2016
This article outlines an overview of the relationship between costume and film in contemporary Italian cinema, with particular reference to class, gender and ideological discourse.
Minuz, Andrea
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Extracellular Vesicles Modulation by an Adiponectin Receptor Agonist Provides Cardioprotection for Myocardial Ischemic Injury

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This study demonstrates that ALY688, a drug mimicking the heart‐protective hormone adiponectin, reduces myocardial ischemia injury. ALY688 increases the production of extracellular vesicles, which carry protective cargo including adiponectin itself.
Jialing Tang, Wing Yan Chung, Serena M. Pulente, Yubin Lei, Khang Nguyen, Eddie Tam, Nadya M. Morrow, Ilka Lorenzen‐Schmidt, Fengxia Xiao, Augusto Zani, Dylan Burger, Hye Kyoung Sung, Erin E. Mulvihill, Gary Sweeney   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

Opinion: Gavage Administration of MXene as a Route‐Specific Alternative to Intravenous Injection into the Bloodstream of Laboratory Animals for Reducing Systemic Nanotoxicity Risks in Immunosuppression and Post‐Transplantation Models with Bile Acid Modification

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Recent studies reported immunosuppressive properties of specific MXene nanomaterials. Their intravenous injection into the bloodstream of laboratory animals has been a common delivery method to suppress systemic inflammation and prevent transplant rejection.
Alireza Rafieerad, M. Akif Rahman, Ahmad Amiri   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dismantling the master’s house with his own tools: the Wrinkles Jewelry Collection’s defiance of visual agism

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
The prevailing antiaging beauty industry equates beauty and attractiveness with youth, especially in the case of women. Efforts to artistically challenge common conceptions of women’s representations are often based on undermining the mindset of the ...
Shlomit Aharoni Lir, Liat Ayalon
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