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Electroactive Liquid Crystal Elastomers as Soft Actuators

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Electroactive liquid crystal elastomers (eLCEs) can be actuated via electromechanical, electrochemical, or electrothermal effects. a) Electromechanical effects include Maxwell stress, electrostriction, and the electroclinic effect. b) Electrochemical effects arise from electrode redox reactions.
Yakui Deng, Min‐Hui Li
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Myocardial inflammation in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy as a precipitating factor for heart failure: a prospective study

BMC Neurology, 2010
Background In patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), the absent or diminished dystrophin leads to progressive skeletal muscle and heart failure.
Kaklamanis Loukas, Polymeros Spyridon, Demerouti Eftichia, Kolovou Genovefa, Georgakopoulos Dimitris, Karanasios Evangelos, Papadopoulos George, Constandoulakis Pantelis, Spargias Kostas, Papavasiliou Antigoni, Mavrogeni Sophie, Magoutas Anastasios, Papadopoulou Evangelia, Markussis Vyron, Cokkinos Dennis V   +14 more
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Western Diet-Fed, Aortic-Banded Ossabaw Swine: A Preclinical Model of Cardio-Metabolic Heart Failure. [PDF]

, 2019
The development of new treatments for heart failure lack animal models that encompass the increasingly heterogeneous disease profile of this patient population.
Alex, Linda, Baines, Christopher P, Domeier, Timothy L, Edwards, Jenna C, Emter, Craig A, Ferreira-Nichols, Stephanie C, Ford, David A, Gao, Chen, Ivey, Jan R, Jones, John L, Jurrissen, Thomas J, Klutho, Paula J, Krenz, Maike, McDonald, Kerry S, Olver, T Dylan, Padilla, Jaume, Rau, Christoph, Rector, R Scott, Solaro, R John, Thorne, Pamela K, Veteto, Adam B, Wang, Yibin, Warren, Chad M   +22 more
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Oral Dosed Organo‐Silica Nanoparticles Restore Glucose Homeostasis and β‐Cell Function in Diabetes Rats

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
An oral nanoplatform, MOP@T@D, which can maintain glucose homeostasis and restore islet β cells in diabetic rats is developed. It achieves efficient intestinal absorption and liver‐targeted delivery. The nanoparticle disintegrates only in response to hyperglycemia to release insulin on demand and provides antioxidant protection through selenoprotein ...
Chenxiao Chu, Mingli Wei, Che Bian, Xiaoshuang Bi, Yaxin Deng, Peifu Xiao, Jiansong Zhao, Yuying Wang, Haibing He, Jingxin Gou, Tian Yin, Xing Tang, Li Yang, Hongbo Zhang, Yu Zhang   +14 more
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A Five-Repeat Micro-Dystrophin Gene Ameliorated Dystrophic Phenotype in the Severe DBA/2J-mdx Model of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Molecular Therapy: Methods & Clinical Development, 2017
Micro-dystrophins are highly promising candidates for treating Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a lethal muscle disease caused by dystrophin deficiency.
Chady H. Hakim, Nalinda B. Wasala, Xiufang Pan, Kasun Kodippili, Yongping Yue, Keqing Zhang, Gang Yao, Brittney Haffner, Sean X. Duan, Julian Ramos, Joel S. Schneider, N. Nora Yang, Jeffrey S. Chamberlain, Dongsheng Duan   +13 more
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The Role of Sarcopenia in Heart Failure with Depression

Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022
Heart failure (HF) and depression are both major medical health issues in our society. Currently, an increasing number of studies demonstrate an association between HF and depression.
Ruting Wang, Jiahao Duan, Wei Liu, Kai Huang, Zijun Chen, Chun Yang, Ling Yang   +6 more
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The combinational effect of cardiac and biochemical markers in diabetic patients with cardiovascular disease [PDF]

, 2011
Background: Clinicopathological correlations, as well as several angiographic studies, suggest that diabetic patients have more extensive atherosclerotic disease, affecting the coronary arteries in particular.
Palanisamy Pasupathi, YY Rao, Farook J, Sathiyamoorthy Subramaniyam, Babu Shankar Ponnusha, Athimoolam Ambika, Int J Cur Bio Med Sci.
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Birth outcome in relation to licorice consumption during pregnancy.

, 2001
A role for glucocorticoids is suspected in the etiology of low birth weight. The authors tested whether maternal consumption of glycyrrhizin (an inhibitor of cortisol metabolism) in licorice affects birth weight in humans. A sample of 1,049 Finnish women
Järvenpää, AL, McKeigue, PM, Strandberg, TE, Vanhanen, H   +3 more
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Role of galectin-3 in bone cell differentiation, bone pathophysiology and vascular osteogenesis [PDF]

, 2017
Galectin-3 is expressed in various tissues, including the bone, where it is considered a marker of chondrogenic and osteogenic cell lineages. Galectin-3 protein was found to be increased in the differentiated chondrocytes of the metaphyseal plate ...
Fantauzzi, Claudia Blasetti, Iacobini, Carla, Menini, Stefano, Pugliese, Giuseppe   +3 more
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Gourd‐Inspired Design of Unit Cell with Multiple Gradients for Physiological‐Range Pressure Sensing

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Gourd‐shaped micro‐dome arrays with coordinated modulus, conductivity, and geometric gradients co‐optimize sensitivity and linearity in piezoresistive tactile sensors. Under pressure, a solid upper dome embeds into a porous lower dome, triggering rapid contact‐area growth and series‐to‐parallel conduction, enabling unsaturated, intensity‐resolved ...
Jiayi Xu, Ming Lei, Yuanzhe Liang, Biao Qi, Ziyi Dai, Yong Zhao, Bingpu Zhou   +6 more
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