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Time lag between oscillatory pressure and flow affecting accuracy of forced oscillation technique

BioMedical Engineering OnLine, 2011
Background The forced oscillation technique (FOT) is a simple method for assessing the oscillatory mechanics of the respiratory system. The oscillatory properties, respiratory system resistance (Rrs) and reactance (Xrs), are calculated from the ...
Ohishi Junichi, Kurosawa Hajime
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Cellular Responses to Mechanical Cues Across Scales: From Fundamental Insights to Translational Potential

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This review examines how cellular behavior is regulated by mechanical cues transmitted through soft biomaterials, from single‐cell mechanosensing to tissue‐level adaptation. It highlights why physiological relevance, rather than model complexity alone, is critical for translational mechanobiology and introduces a scoring framework linking material ...
Mathias Polz, Manuel P. Kainz, Niklas Haider, Theresa Rienmüller, Kerstin Lenk, Rupert Kargl, Michele Terzano, Gerhard Sommer, Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Julia Fuchs   +9 more
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Bioprinting High‐Cell‐Density Cardiac Tissue Constructs With Sustained Contractile Function

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Contractile cardiomyocytes in 3D culture provide insights into the behavior of the heart. Combining a 3D bioprinting approach with a multi‐electrode array allows the development of the 3D culture to be monitored over time, and matured cultures allow the effect of drugs on cardiac function to be modelled, replicating effects seen in clinical application.
Priscila Melo, Wing Tai Tung, Harvey Lewis, Kavin Hettiarachchilage, Babis Tzivelekis, Rolando Berlinguer‐Palmini, Ana Marina Ferreira, Jason Gill, Kenneth Dalgarno   +8 more
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Multifunctional Catechol‐Functionalized Cellulose Hydrogels for the Minimally Invasive Treatment of Acute Optic Nerve Injuries

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Catechol‐functionalized cellulose hydrogels are developed as injectable, bioadhesive platforms for retinal neuroprotection. The hydrogels exhibit tunable rheological and mechanical properties, strong tissue adhesion, and sustained antioxidative activity.
Kai‐Hsiang Chang, Yi‐Ke Lin, Wei‐Li Chen, Ta‐Ching Chen, Jiashing Yu   +4 more
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Patterned ELR‐Gelatin Hydrogels Enable Rapid Endothelial Monolayer Formation via Bioactive Matrix Chemistry and Surface Topography

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Micro‐ and nano‐patterned elastin‐like recombinamer (ELR) hydrogels integrate bioactive matrix chemistry with defined surface topography. The combined cues promote rapid endothelial cell capture, alignment, and monolayer formation on soft substrates.
Jagoda Litowczenko, Yannick Richter, Martyna Michalska, Piotr Paczos, Karine Tadevosyan, Daniel Uribe, Jose Carlos Rodriguez‐Cabello, Ioannis Papakonstantinou, Angel Raya   +8 more
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FOT Technique Applied for Monitoring of COVID-19 Pneumonia Reveals Small Airways Involvement

Diagnostics
The fact that some SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia patients benefit from changing body position, and some from continuous positive airways pressure (CPAP), indicates the functional character of hypoxia.
Immanuels Taivans, Laura Grima, Normunds Jurka, Ligita Zvaigzne, Valentina Gordjušina, Gunta Strazda   +5 more
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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
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Evaluating the forced oscillation technique in the detection of early smoking-induced respiratory changes

BioMedical Engineering OnLine, 2009
Background Early detection of the effects of smoking is of the utmost importance in the prevention of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The forced oscillation technique (FOT) is easy to perform since it requires only tidal breathing and ...
Jansen José M, Lopes Agnaldo J, Faria Alvaro CD, Melo Pedro L   +3 more
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Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy in Bionanotechnology: Current Advances and Future Perspectives

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM) enables the nanoscale mapping of electrostatic surface potentials. While widely applied in materials science, its use in biological systems remains emerging. This review presents recent advances in KPFM applied to biological samples and provides a critical perspective on current limitations and future directions for
Ehsan Rahimi, Mario Palacios‐Corella, Arjan Mol, Salvador Pané, Josep Puigmartí‐Luis   +4 more
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Resolving the Structural Duality of Graphene Grain Boundaries

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Cantilever ncAFM resolves the atomic structure of grain boundaries in graphene, revealing coexisting stable and metastable types. Both contain pentagon/heptagon defects, but metastable GBs show irregular geometries. Modeling shows metastable GBs form under compression, exhibiting vertical corrugation, while stable GBs are flat.
Haojie Guo, Emiliano Ventura‐Macías, Mariano D. Jiménez‐Sánchez, Nicoleta Nicoara, Pierre Mallet, Jean‐Yves Veuillen, Vincent T. Renard, Antonio J. Martínez‐Galera, Pablo Pou, Julio Gómez‐Herrero, Rubén Pérez, Iván Brihuega   +11 more
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