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Preparation of Soybean Fiber/Sodium Alginate Microgel and Its Application in Low-Fat Yogurt

Foods
This study investigates the oral processing characteristics and application of soybean fiber and sodium alginate microgel in enhancing the texture and sensory attributes of low-fat yogurt.
Cunshe Chen, Sihan Zheng, Zexun An, Zhihua Pang, Xinqi Liu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Complexation of DNA with Thermoresponsive Charged Microgels: Role of Swelling State and Electrostatics

Gels, 2022
Micro- and nanogels are being increasingly used to encapsulate bioactive compounds. Their soft structure allows large loading capacity while their stimuli responsiveness makes them extremely versatile.
Julia Maldonado-Valderrama, Yan Yang, Maykel Jiménez-Guerra, Teresa del Castillo-Santaella, José Ramos, Alberto Martín-Molina   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Interplay of the Influence of Crosslinker Content and Model Drugs on the Phase Transition of Thermoresponsive PNiPAM-BIS Microgels

Gels, 2022
The phase transition behavior of differently crosslinked poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)/N,N’-methylenebisacrylamide (PNiPAM/BIS) microgels with varying crosslinker content is investigated in presence of aromatic additives.
Daniel Schlattmann, Monika Schönhoff
doaj   +1 more source

Studying stirred yogurt microstructure using optical microscopy: How smoothing temperature and storage time affect microgel size related to syneresis.

Journal of Dairy Science, 2020
A grainy texture and high syneresis are 2 defects in low-fat stirred yogurt that are often disliked by consumers. In this study, a rheometer controlling the shear rate and temperature was used to simulate the smoothing step of yogurt manufacture ...
A. Gilbert, Laurie-Eve Rioux, D. St-Gelais, S. Turgeon   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Can Elastomers Combine Stiffness, Toughness and Fatigue Resistance?

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review studies how the molecular and macroscopic architecture of elastomers influence their mechanical properties including: stiffness, stretchability, toughness, fatigue resistance, and damping behavior. By linking the structure to performance, it proposes design principles for advanced elastomeric systems that combine mechanical properties ...
Eva Baur, Esther Amstad
wiley   +1 more source

Powdered Cross-Linked Gelatin Methacryloyl as an Injectable Hydrogel for Adipose Tissue Engineering

Gels
The tissue engineering field is currently advancing towards minimally invasive procedures to reconstruct soft tissue defects. In this regard, injectable hydrogels are viewed as excellent scaffold candidates to support and promote the growth of ...
Tess De Maeseneer, Lana Van Damme, Merve Kübra Aktan, Annabel Braem, Paula Moldenaers, Sandra Van Vlierberghe, Ruth Cardinaels   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Licensing microgels prolong the immunomodulatory phenotype of mesenchymal stromal cells

Frontiers in Immunology, 2022
Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) are sensors of inflammation, and they exert immunomodulatory properties through the secretion of cytokines and exosomes and direct cell-cell interactions.
Matthew D. Patrick, Ramkumar T. Annamalai   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Spatial Control of Light‐Responsive Proteins and Optogenetics Within Hydrogels via Volumetric Bioprinting

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Spatiotemporal control over cell behavior within bioprinted constructs remains a key challenge in biofabrication. Volumetric bioprinting using multi‐wavelength light sources permits to activate light‐sensitive intracellular proteins as well as optogenetic gene and protein expression circuits in bioprinted cells, in addition to enabling fast printing of
Davide Ribezzi, Pere Català, Gabriel Größbacher, Paulina Nuñez Bernal, Olaf Nijssen, Sammy Florczak, Wilco Nijenhuis, Nuria Crusellas‐Villorbina, Bram Nijhoff, Paul Delrot, Jos Malda, Andreas Hierholzer, Martin Fussenegger, Lukas C. Kapitein, Riccardo Levato   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cryopreserved cell-laden alginate microgel bioink for 3D bioprinting of living tissues

Materials Today Chemistry, 2019
Cell-laden microgels have been used as tissue building blocks to create three-dimensional (3D) tissues and organs. However, traditional assembly methods can not be used to fabricate functional tissue constructs with biomechanical and structural ...
Oju Jeon, Yu Bin Lee, Thomas Hinton, A. Feinberg, E. Alsberg   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source