Influence of age and gender in the sensory nerve fibers excitability. [PDF]
Brain Behav, 2022 Caetano A, Pereira P, de Carvalho M.
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A Soft Robotic Fish With a Dielectric Elastomer Actuator Body and Negative Stiffness Spine
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This work introduces a bio‐mimetic soft robotic fish driven by fiber‐reinforced dielectric elastomer actuators integrated as its body. By prestretching this active skin against a flexible spine, a negative stiffness system is created, enabling large‐amplitude bending.
Markus Koenigsdorff +4 more
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Altered Sigmoid Mucosal Innervation and Mast Cell Proximity to Sensory Nerve Fibers Are Associated With Symptom Severity in Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome. [PDF]
Neurogastroenterol MotilYuan PQ +7 more
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Hybrid Continuum Robot Designs and Architectures for Healthcare Applications
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Hybrid continuum robots represent an emerging class of flexible manipulators that blend materials, structures, and actuation concepts from the established fields of soft and continuum robotics. This review introduces an accessible framework to distinguish key hybridization approaches, surveys current designs aimed at complex clinical applications, and ...
Burak Ozdemir +4 more
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Like sand in your shoes: are the nerve fibers in peritoneal adhesions to blame for chronic abdominal pain after surgery? [PDF]
EBioMedicineYuan X, Zhao S, Zhao P, Shen T, Li X.
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Functional Fibers in Soft Robotics: Advances in Material, Structural, and Systemic Tactics
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Fiber‐form robotic systems offer a scalable pathway toward embodied intelligence in soft robotics. This review surveys functional fibers as material, structural, and systemic elements, highlighting advances in responsive materials, architectural programing, and fabrication strategies.
Joonhee Won +5 more
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Three-dimensional imaging and computational quantitation as a novel approach to assess nerve fibers, enteric glial cells, mast cells, and the proximity of mast cells to the nerve fibers in human sigmoid mucosal biopsies from healthy subjects. [PDF]
J Neurosci MethodsYuan PQ +5 more
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Advances in Electroactive Liquid Crystal Elastomers for Intelligent Robotics and Electronics
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Electroactive liquid crystal elastomers (eLCEs) integrate molecular anisotropy with electrical functionality to enable programmable actuation and reconfigurable electronics. This review classifies eLCEs into robotic actuators and adaptive electronics, summarizes key actuation mechanisms, and highlights fabrication strategies that bridge materials to ...
Kavita Ramesh Rathod +14 more
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Trisulfated Heparin Disaccharide (TS-HDS) Antibody-Positive Small Fiber Neuropathy Involving Sweat Gland Nerve Fibers After the Second Moderna Vaccination: A Case Report. [PDF]
CureusFinsterer J.
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Learning‐Based Soft Robotic Grasping: Recent Progress and Remaining Challenges
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This review analyzes learning‐based soft robotic grasping from a pipeline‐oriented perspective, encompassing soft gripper design, multimodal sensing, and learning‐based planning and control. It surveys key neural network architectures and benchmark datasets and identifies critical challenges such as sim‐to‐real transfer, generalization, and continual ...
Arnab Majumder +3 more
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