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Comprehensive In Vitro Profiling Demonstrates Successful Immune Evasion of Bioengineered Immune‐Shielded Heart Valves

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Living donor heart valves offer superior durability for pediatric patients but trigger immune rejection. Lentiviral delivery of viral immune‐evasion genes US2 and Serpin b9 into donor valve cells and valve tissue suppresses HLA expression, reduces PBMC clustering and cytotoxic killing, and induces transcriptional immune‐tolerance programs, paving the ...
Abraham van Wijk, Leanne Van den Berg, Isa B. M. Velraeds, Valentina Osorio Zuluaga, Emma T. M. Peereboom, Martijn J. W. E. Rabelink, Arnaud Zaldumbide, Rob C. Hoeben, Marie‐Jose T. H. Goumans, Eric Spierings, Carlijn V. C. Bouten, Marijn C. Peters   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Near‐Infrared Light‐Activated Polydopamine Nanoparticles Conjugated With Transferrin Peptides for Enhanced Brain Accumulation

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This study demonstrates that Tf‐PDA NPs combine a receptor‐mediated targeting with mild photothermal activation to enhance nanoparticle accumulation in the brain. NIR‐activated Tf‐PDA NPs increase BBB permeability to NPs in vitro and in vivo without inducing cytotoxicity or adverse immune responses.
Rafaela Ferrão, Susana Simões, Paulo Rodrigues‐Santos, Vitor Francisco, Akhilesh Rai, Lino Ferreira   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hydrogel‐Based Airway‐on‐Tube With Perfusable Endothelial Lumen and Outward Epithelialization

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A hydrogel‐based airway‐on‐tube platform featuring a perfusable endothelial lumen and outward epithelialization is presented. The system supports primary human bronchial epithelial and lung microvascular endothelial coculture under air‐liquid interface conditions.
Ali Doryab, Jack F. Murphy, Michael Bartolf‐Kopp, Jenny C‐C Hsin, Alice Chernaik, Frank McCaughan, Yan Yan Shery Huang, Tomasz Jungst, Jürgen Groll   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Simultaneous determination and association between serum levels of irisin and chemerin in PCOS

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
Objective: To determine the serum levels of irisin, chemerin and insulin in women with polycystic ovary syndrome, and to compare their levels with respect to bodyweight and body mass index.
Hajer Wahbi Abdullateef, Shatha Mohammed Al-khateeb, Esraa Hameed AL-Maini   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bioengineered Interfaces for Peripheral Nerve Sensory Restoration

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Half of amputees abandon their prosthetics for lack of feeling. This review charts the full path from peripheral nerve injury to restored sensation, through surgical, regenerative, noninvasive, and implanted approaches, and shows how injury type and interface material properties determine which strategy can deliver naturalistic feedback, and why ...
Sydney Swedick, Salim El Hadwe, Kesi Liang, George G. Malliaras, Damiano G. Barone   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biochemical versus radiological screening for osteoporosis in menopause; will Irisin help?

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
Objective: To verify the discriminative power of irisin in osteoporosis patients. Method: The comparative case-control study was conducted at the University Teaching Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq,from March 2020 to June 2021 after approval from the ethics ...
Wisam Akram, Alaa Ibrahim Ali, Hind Hadi Majeed   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fabrication of Aligned Polycaprolactone Nanofibrillar Bundles to Control Cell‐Mediated Collagen Deposition in Engineered Cartilage

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Melt electrofibrillation (MEF) enables the fabrication of nanofibrillar PCL scaffolds with defined architectures that guide cellular alignment and retention during cartilage tissue engineering. Unlike conventional melt electrowriting, MEF consistently directs collagen type II‐rich extracellular matrix organization, providing a tunable platform to ...
Alba Pueyo Moliner, Lennard Spauwen, James L. Martin Robinson, Ángela García Grech, Isabelle Martinier, Sara Grasselli, Aylin Kara Özenler, Matthias Ryma, Jürgen Groll, Mylène de Ruijter, Jos Malda   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human plasma and cerebrospinal fibronectins differ in the accessibility of the epitopes on the N-terminal domains [PDF]

, 2010
Three monoclonal antibodies specific to the central cell-binding and the C- and N-terminal domains of fibronectin (FN) were used to test antigenic epitope accessibility on human plasma and cerebrospinal fibronectins.
Kątnik-Prastowska, Iwona, Jasonek, Jolanta, Pupek, Małgorzata, Lemańska-Perek, Anna   +3 more
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Surface Functionalization Modulates Collective Cell Behavior Near Topological Defects Induced by Topographical Patterning

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
Strongly adhered cells align with concentric circular ridges and exhibit predominantly tangential motion, whereas weakly adhered cells fail to follow topographical guidance and display enhanced radial inward motion. ABSTRACT Living cells establish long‐range orientational order through collective alignment, giving rise to topological defects whose ...
Prasoon Awasthi, Aniruddh Murali, Ellen Juel Pørtner, Adam Cohen Simonsen, Francesca Serra   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Relationship of Human Macrophage Agglutination Factor to Other Fibronectins

, 1989
Human macrophage agglutination factor (MAggF) is a lymphokine with a number of biochemical and immunochemical similarities to the fibronectins (FN). The present study was undertaken to define this relationship more exactly.
Melancon-Kaplan, J., Haak-Frendscho, M., Godfrey, Henry P, Canfield, L. S., Kaplan, A. P., Brown, E. J.   +5 more
core   +1 more source