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Melanin and Melanin-Like Hybrid Materials in Regenerative Medicine [PDF]
Nanomaterials, 2020 Melanins are a group of dark insoluble pigments found widespread in nature. In mammals, the brown-black eumelanins and the reddish-yellow pheomelanins are the main determinants of skin, hair, and eye pigmentation and play a significant role in ...
Chiara Cavallini +9 more
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Melanin-like nanofibers with highly ordered structures achieve ultrahigh specific electromagnetic interference shielding efficiency [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsLightweight, high-performance electromagnetic shielding materials rely on the precise design of electromagnetic response structures. Conventional shielding materials often involve complex fabrication of conjugated composites or graphitization of organic ...
Peng Chen +5 more
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Recent Applications of Melanin-like Nanoparticles as Antioxidant Agents
Antioxidants, 2023 Nanosized antioxidants are highly advantageous in terms of versatility and pharmacokinetics, with respect to conventional molecular ones. Melanin-like materials, artificial species inspired by natural melanin, combine recognized antioxidant (AOX ...
Alexandra Mavridi-Printezi +4 more
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Application of melanin and its engineered nanomaterials in tumor radiotherapy: a review [PDF]
Journal of Translational MedicineBackground Radiotherapy (RT) is the cornerstone of cancer treatment, but its clinical efficacy is frequently hampered by radiation-induced damage to normal tissues and the radioresistance of tumors.
Cheng Chen, Yong Guo
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Visible light is a better co-inducer of apoptosis for curcumin-treated human melanoma cells than UVA [PDF]
, 2013 Curcumin attracts worldwide scientific interest due to its anti-proliferative and apoptosis inducing effects on different tumor cells at concentrations ranging from 10 to 150 µM (3.7–55 µg/ml).
Bernd, August +7 more
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Synthetic fungal melanin nanoparticles with excellent antioxidative property
Giant, 2022 Melanin-inspired polymers have been widely used in biomedical applications due to their promising biocompatibility and antioxidant capacity. Although several works focusing on the eumelanin-like biomaterials such as polydopamine nanoparticles (PDA NPs ...
Hengjie Zhang +7 more
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Nature Communications, 2023 Melanin-like nanomaterials have emerged in surface biofunctionalization in a material-independent manner due to their versatile adhesion arising from their catechol-rich structures.
Haejin Jeong +4 more
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Molecules, 2022 We report herein an optimized procedure for preparation of carboxamides of 5,6-dihydroxyindole-2-carboxylic acid (DHICA), the main biosynthetic precursor of the skin photoprotective agents melanins, to get access to pigments with more favorable ...
Rita Argenziano +3 more
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Frontiers in Oncology, 2021 PurposeTo investigate the clinicopathological features and BRAF V600E mutation of melanotic neuroectodermal tumor of infancy (MNTI).Materials and MethodsEleven cases of MNTI diagnosed at the Department of Oral Pathology were collected ...
Rong-Hui Xia +6 more
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The versatile applications of polydopamine in regenerative medicine: Progress and challenges
Smart Materials in Medicine, 2023 In recent decades, great progress has been made in regenerative medicine with the development of various functional scaffolds, many of which have been put into practical clinical applications.
Shundong Cai +4 more
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