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Paracrine Factor Local Gradient‐Generating System for Engineering Perfusable Vascularized Hepatocyte Tissues with Perfusion‐Induced Proliferation

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
A paracrine factor local gradient (PFLG)‐generating system enables microvessel penetration across 3D hepatocyte tissues. The resulting vascularized constructs recapitulate hepatic sinusoidal hepatocyte—endothelial contact architecture and enhance hepatic functions in vitro.
Yen‐Hsiang Huang, Tadahiro Yamashita, Ryo Sudo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Primary cultures of chick osteocytes retain functional gap junctions between osteocytes and between osteocytes and osteoblasts [PDF]

, 2008
The inaccessibility of osteocytes due to their embedment in the calcified bone matrix in vivo has precluded direct demonstration that osteocytes use gap junctions as a means of intercellular communication.
Ishihara, Yoshihito, Kamioka, Hiroshi, Lim, Soo-Siang, Murshid, Sakhr A., Ris, Hans, Sugawara, Yasuyo, Yamamoto, Teruko Takano   +6 more
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Three‐Dimensional Ovary Model to Improve and Study Murine Follicle Growth

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
To develop new methods for fertility preservation in women, novel culture systems for small follicles need to be established. In this work, a poly(ethylene glycol) based scaffold, with appropriate mechanical and bioactive features to support mouse follicle and ovary cell growth is developed, and the formed cell‐follicle interactions are visualized ...
Mira Jacobs, Valon Gllareva, Lukas Moser, Silvia Pravato, Eric Mora Pimentel, Brigitte Leeners, Martin Ehrbar   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Matrix metalloproteinase-13 refines pathological staging of precancerous colorectal lesions [PDF]

, 2016
An exact classification of precancerous stages of colorectal polyps might improve therapy and patients´ outcome. Here we investigate the association between grade of dysplasia and Matrix metalloproteinase-13 (MMP-13) expression in 137 biopsies from ...
Churin, Yuri, Gattenlöhner, Stefan, Roderfeld, Martin, Roeb, Elke, Sheridan, Diana, Tschuschner, Annette, Wernicke, Anna-Katharina, Windhorst, Anita   +7 more
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Start, Stop, Rewind, Repeat—Cyclic Exposure of Adipose Stromal Cells‐derived Cartilage Organoids to Chondrogenic and Proliferative Cues to Achieve Scaled‐up and Customizable Bone Formation by Endochondral Ossification

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This study exploits the plasticity of ASCs‐derived cartilage organoids which generate a perichondrial layer of MSCs when exposed to cyclic chondrogenic/proliferative cues. Using these organoids as building blocks, we develop (i) Phalange Shaped Tissue Engineered Cartilage (Pa‐TECs), recapitulating endochondral ossification suitable for the treatment of
Pablo Pfister, Emilien Lhospice, Andrés García‐García, Robert Paillaud, Sebastian Jung, Romain Schaller, Elisabeth A. Kappos, Claude Jaquiéry, Tarek Ismail, Dirk J. Schaefer, Michael de Wild, Ivan Martin, Alexandre Kaempfen, Arnaud Scherberich, Adrien Moya   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design and Synthesis of Peptide‐Polyester Conjugates for Cell‐Mediated Scaffold Degradation

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This work describes polycaprolactone (PCL)‐based biomaterials engineered to degrade in response to cell‐secreted proteases. A fast‐degrading peptide (Fast) sequence is integrated into a PCL conjugate backbone to produce a biomaterial that is selectively degraded by multiple cell types compared to its scrambled control (ScrFast).
Korina Vida G. Sinad, Natasha K. Hunt, Srujan Singh, Kelly B. Seims, Yingjie Wu, E. Thomas Pashuck, Warren L. Grayson, Lesley W. Chow   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Engineered ETS1‐Nanoconjugate Restores Immune Homeostasis through Dual Immune‐Vascular Modulation in Relapsing and Progressive Multiple Sclerosis

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
The biomimetic nanoplatform IMNP (ETS1 pDNA/PBAE@ITP‐MM) undergoes targeted disassembly at inflammatory vascular sites to release the ETS1 plasmid (pETS1). This release initiates a cascade of effects that inhibit pathogenic pathways and support immune homeostasis. (Abbreviations: EndMT, endothelial‐to‐mesenchymal transition; EC, endothelial cell; TC, T
Feng Zhang, Si‐Bo Yang, Yan Luo, Xiao‐Di Sun, Bo‐Hao Chang, Da‐Qiang Zhou, Jun‐Jie Jiang, Ya‐Nan Li, Jie‐Hong Wu, Hui‐Juan Jin, Hang Yang, Hang Hu, Yi‐Fan Zhou, Bo Hu   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Glucocorticoids for human skin: New aspects of the mechanism of action [PDF]

, 2005
Topical glucocorticoids have always been considered first-line drugs for inflammatory diseases of the skin and bronchial system. Applied systemically, glucocorticoids are used for severe inflammatory and immunological diseases and the inhibition of ...
Ahmed, M., Holtje, H. D., Kleuser, B., Korting, Hans Christian, Schäfer-Korting, Monika   +4 more
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Diels‐Alder Click Chemistry as a Dynamic‐Covalent Crosslinking Method in Spheroid‐Encapsulating Hydrogels for Cartilage Engineering

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This research shows the development of hydrogels with Diels‐Alder click chemistry for engineering cartilage‐like tissue. The hydrogels support cartilage spheroids which could be cultured for at least 28 days. Furthermore, the spheroids showed a tendency to fuse together into a more consistent construct, and produced important components needed for ...
Sanne M. van de Looij, Antonia G. Vasilopoulou, Lennard Spauwen, Antoinette van den Dikkenberg, Jasmijn V. Korpershoek, Mylene de Ruijter, Jos Malda, Bas G. P. van Ravensteijn, Tina Vermonden   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Collagenase clostridium histolyticum for the treatment of Dupuytren’s contracture: systematic review and economic evaluation

Health Technology Assessment, 2015
Background: Dupuytren’s disease is a slowly progressive condition of the hand, characterised by the formation of nodules in the palm that gradually develop into fibrotic cords. Contracture of the cords produces deformities of the fingers.
Miriam Brazzelli, Moira Cruickshank, Emma Tassie, Paul McNamee, Clare Robertson, Andrew Elders, Cynthia Fraser, Rodolfo Hernandez, David Lawrie, Craig Ramsay   +9 more
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