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Tuning Mechanoreceptor Signaling Enhances the Adjuvant Effect of Biomaterial Vaccines

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Matrix stiffness serves as an independent immunological signal in biomaterial vaccines. Stiffer microporous hydrogel vaccines enhance dendritic cell maturation and migration to draining lymph nodes, promote T follicular helper cell expansion through Yap/Taz signaling, and increase antigen‐specific antibody production.
Lily Shang, Daniel P. Mayer, Prabhat K. Purbey, Yingzi Liu, Kindra Kelly‐Scumpia, Clara Kang, Natalie Tsubamoto, Dhriti Bolangadi, Iqra Arshad, Charisse Ng, Maksim V. Plikus, Dino Di Carlo, Jason S. Weinstein, Philip O. Scumpia   +13 more
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Microfluidic Nano‐Assembly of Red‐Blood‐Cell (RBC) Lipids and Components for Engineering Extracellular Vesicles

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Engineered red blood cell‐derived extracellular vesicles (eRBCEVs) are synthesized via controlled microfluidic assembly from native RBC lipids, enabling tunable encapsulation of proteins, nucleic acids, nanoparticles, and viral vectors. The platform demonstrates reproducible nanoscale architecture, preserved membrane composition, and functional cargo ...
Chiranth K. Nagaraj, Xilal Y. Rima, Kim T. Nguyen, Courtney Culkins, Nana Boateng, Jacob Doon‐Ralls, Alejandro Bresolin, Xin Huang, Hong Li, Vahedi Amid, Ajeet Pal Singh, Dharti Shantaram, Anastasiia Amari, Mangesh D. Hade, Nicholas R. Merriam, Zachary D. Schultz, Scott Q. Harper, Nizar Y. Saad, Setty M. Magaña, Willa A. Hsueh, Rachel E. Kopec, Blaise R. Kimmel, Andre F. Palmer, Eduardo Reátegui   +23 more
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A Novel Perfused Full‐Thickness Human Skin Microphysiological System for Modeling Injury, Regeneration, Tumor Pathophysiology, and Therapeutics Development

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
What if human skin could remain fully alive and functional outside the body for weeks? A New Alternative Method (NAM) based on a vascularized full‐thickness skin microphysiological system achieves precisely this, preserving native vasculature, resident immunity, and metabolic activity for up to three weeks, while faithfully recapitulating radiation ...
Yusuf Surucu, Hamid Malekzadeh, Alexa Rivera Del Rio Hernandez, Naresh Mahajan, Ethan Banks, Dayyan Ur Rahman, José A. Arellano, Katherine S. Yang, Alexey Altman, G.V. Naveen Kumar, Matthew L. Steinhauser, Jeffrey A. Gusenoff, J. Peter Rubin, Asim Ejaz   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Helmet Design Based on the Optimization of Biocomposite Energy-Absorbing Liners under Multi-Impact Loading

Applied Sciences, 2019
Cellular materials have been used in many applications such as insulation, packaging, and protective gear. Expanded polystyrene has been widely used as energy-absorbing liner in helmets due to its excellent cost-benefit relation.
Fábio A. O. Fernandes, Ricardo J. Alves de Sousa, Mariusz Ptak, Gonçalo Migueis   +3 more
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Wearable OLED‐Assisted Photodynamic Cancer Therapy Using Chlorin e6‐Loaded Pluronic Nanocapsules as Photosensitizers

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
A novel photodynamic therapeutic approach has been employed for anticancer therapy, utilizing chlorin e6‐loaded Pluronic nanocapsules and a wearable organic light‐emitting diode light source. This has shown significant in vivo antitumor efficacy with minimal off‐target toxicity. The innovative combination of a wearable light source and photosensitizers
Hyeryeon Oh, Seung Min Jeong, Cheol Hui Park, Panmo Son, Yeseo Lee, Heebeom Koo, Won Il Choi, Kyung Cheol Choi   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Refashioned Head Cover Device of Personal Protective Equipment to Facilitate Conventional Auscultation

Indian Pediatrics
Conventional stethoscope is a useful clinical examination tool to aid evaluation of the underlying clinical condition, especially respiratory and cardiac illnesses, even before definitive imaging studies are performed. Auscultation with a stethoscope becomes highly challenging when wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) because the hood of the PPE
Thirunavukkarasu, Arun Babu, Vijayan, Sharmila   +1 more
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Engineering Concentration‐Dependent Intravitreal Mobility via Cyclic Arginine‐Enriched Nanocarrier Surface Modification: In Vivo Proof‐of‐Concept in a Porcine Large Animal Model

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
In this study, Hammer et al. highlight cyclic‐arginine surface engineering as a highly biocompatible, controllable, and concentration‐dependent regulator of intravitreal nanoparticle mobility in vivo in a translational large animal model. The cyclic arginine surface‐modification supports the development of next‐generation biomaterials for long‐acting ...
Maximilian Hammer, Bryan Calder Ackermann, Anna Stoß, Niklas Junker, Ludwig Geisweid, Sabrina Wohlfart, Jonathan Herth, Simon William Pohl, Manuel Ben Böhmann, André Schulz, Victor Aristide Augustin, Gerd Uwe Auffarth, Philipp Uhl   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Aerosol-generating otolaryngology procedures and the need for enhanced PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic: a literature review

Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 2020
Background Adequate personal protective equipment is needed to reduce the rate of transmission of COVID-19 to health care workers. Otolaryngology groups are recommending a higher level of personal protective equipment for aerosol-generating procedures ...
Paul Mick, Russell Murphy
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Inhibition of VEGF‐Induced Angiogenesis and Vascular Leakage by Bicistronic Co‐Expression of Aflibercept and COMP‐Ang1

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
A bicistronic rAAV8 vector encoding Aflibercept (Afb) and COMP‐cAng1 simultaneously coordinates VEGF clearance and Tie2‐mediated vessel maturation. In a 3D angiogenesis‐on‐a‐chip model, rAAV8‐Afb/cAng1 effectively reverses pathological barrier breakdown under clinical disease‐mimicking challenges.
Bong‐Kyu Kim, Jaehong Min, Sang‐Hee Park, Subeen Shin, Sangbin Yu, Jeong‐Eun Park, Sujin Kim, Wooju Park, Jihoon Ko, Sunjong Kwon   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Study of the Effective Parameters on the Making Use of Protective Devices in Qom Province Workers Community in 2006

Majallah-i Dānishgāh-i ̒Ulūm-i Pizishkī-i Qum, 2008
Background and objective Noise threats health of many groups of industrial workers and causes hearing loss. Use of personal protective device is the best control method to protect against hazardous conditions. Hence, this investigation was carried out to
Y Tabaraie, S Ahmadizad, HR Heidari, AR Koohpaie   +3 more
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