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Advancing Human Skin Equivalents: The Crucial Role of Neurovascular Integration

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This review discusses the importance of integrating vascular and peripheral nerve systems into human skin equivalents (HSEs) to better recapitulate native skin physiology. Recent advances in vascularized, innervated, and neurovascularized HSEs are highlighted, together with emerging bioengineering strategies, current challenges, and future ...
Hao Wu, Lorenzo Moroni, Nicolas Lebonvallet, Vincent Flacher, Paul Wieringa   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of interleukin-5 (IL-5 ) in vivo: studies with IL-5 deficient mice

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1997
Eosinophil recruitment is a characteristic feature of a number of pathological conditions and was the topic of the recent International Symposium on allergic inflammation, asthma, parasitic and infectious diseases (Rio de Janeiro, June 3-5, 1996).
Klaus I Matthaei, Paul S Foster, Ian G Young   +2 more
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The prevalence of helminthiases in North-Western Siberia rural indigenous and long-term resident people in 1988-89 and 2018-19

International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2021
The aim of this work was to compare the prevalence of opisthorchiasis, diphyllobothriasis, and ascariasis among the rural indigenous and long-term resident people of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (KMAO) in the years 1988–89 and 2018–19.
Andrey Kozlov, Galina Vershubskaya
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Chemical Strategies for Multistimuli Responsive Dynamic Covalent Materials in Regenerative Medicine

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Multistimuli responsive dynamic covalent materials integrate reversible chemistry with the complex chemical, mechanical, and biochemical cues of regenerative environments. This review highlights chemical strategies based on orthogonal dynamic bonds, multicomponent networks, and hierarchical architectures to regulate mechanics, degradation, and ...
Saurabh Joshi, Matthew B. Baker, Dominik Schauenburg   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Half of a forest bird community infected with haemosporidian parasites

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
IntroductionParasites play important roles in ecosystems. Through their interactions with host and vector species, they are capable of changing the behavior and population dynamics of their host species, and the shape of entire communities. Over the past
Finja Strehmann, Marcel Becker, Kim Lindner, Juan F. Masello, Petra Quillfeldt, Yvonne R. Schumm, Nina Farwig, Dana G. Schabo, Sascha Rösner   +8 more
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Bioinspired Adaptive Surfaces for Intelligent Liquid Manipulation: Progressing From Passive and Active to Hybrid Strategies

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review examines passive, active, and hybrid liquid manipulation strategies, highlighting hybrid approaches as an emerging route to reconcile energy efficiency with adaptive control. By actively reconstructing passive surfaces to store programmable interfacial energy, hybrid systems enable flexible yet low‐power liquid transport, with perspectives ...
Jiaqi Miao, Yiyuan Zhang, Liqiu Wang, Alan C. H. Tsang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advanced Materials for Biologics Delivery to Brain Tumors

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Material innovation is central to unlocking the therapeutic potential of biologics against many central nervous system diseases, including brain cancer. By engineering carriers with controlled transport, targeting, and release properties, advanced materials can overcome the blood–brain barrier and tumor microenvironment, improving the delivery of ...
Yuran Feng, Yuxue Cao, Maria Kavallaris, Taskeen Janjua, Amirali Popat   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Molecular techniques for the study and diagnosis of parasite infection

Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2011
In parasitology, routine laboratory diagnosis involves conventional methods, such as optical microscopy, used for the morphological identification of parasites. Currently, molecular biology techniques are increasingly used to diagnose parasite structures
RG Tavares, R Staggemeier, ALP Borges, MT Rodrigues, LA Castelan, J Vasconcelos, ME Anschau, SM Spalding   +7 more
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3D‐Printed Corneal Substitutes: Materials, Fabrication, and Preclinical Progress

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Successful clinical translation of 3D‐printed corneal substitutes relies on the interplay between the bioink properties, cellular component, and the fabrication process. These factors influence the critical properties of the construct, including optical transparency, mechanical stability, suture retention, that ultimately govern long‐term stromal ...
Shadi Moshayedi, Ashley Vazquez, Alexander J. Choi, Dimitrios Karamichos, Jayoung Kim   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nanomaterials in the Context of Type 2 Immune Responses—Fears and Potentials

Frontiers in Immunology, 2017
The type 2 immune response is an adaptive immune program involved in defense against parasites, detoxification, and wound healing, but is predominantly known for its pathophysiological effects, manifesting as allergic disease.
Albert Duschl, Martin Himly, Robert Mills-Goodlet, Mark Geppert   +3 more
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