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A Visible Light‐Responsive Hydrogel to Study the Effect of Dynamic Tissue Stiffness on Cellular Mechanosensing

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A visible light‐responsive polyacrylamide‐azobenzene hydrogel enables safe, reversible stiffness control for studying cell mechanobiology without harmful UV exposure. This approach reveals stem cells respond rapidly to mechanical changes, showing altered shape and protein distribution within one hour.
Aafreen Ansari, Sanchyan Bhowmik, Kaiwen Zhang, Chayla L. Reeves, Danielle Vahala, Yu Suk Choi, Amy Gelmi, Alexander N. Combes, Rocky S. Tuan, Vinh X. Truong, John S. Forsythe, Jessica E. Frith   +11 more
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Mutable Collagenous Tissue: A Concept Generator for Biomimetic Materials and Devices

Marine Drugs
Echinoderms (starfish, sea-urchins and their close relations) possess a unique type of collagenous tissue that is innervated by the motor nervous system and whose mechanical properties, such as tensile strength and elastic stiffness, can be altered in a ...
M. Daniela Candia Carnevali, Michela Sugni, Francesco Bonasoro, Iain C. Wilkie   +3 more
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Decorin Protects Cardiac Myocytes against Simulated Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury

Molecules, 2020
Search for new cardioprotective therapies is of great importance since no cardioprotective drugs are available on the market. In line with this need, several natural biomolecules have been extensively tested for their potential cardioprotective effects ...
Renáta Gáspár, Kamilla Gömöri, Bernadett Kiss, Ágnes Szántai, János Pálóczi, Zoltán V. Varga, Judit Pipis, Barnabás Váradi, Bence Ágg, Tamás Csont, Péter Ferdinandy, Monika Barteková, Anikó Görbe   +12 more
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Matrix Tropism Influences Endometriotic Cell Attachment Patterns

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The influence of substrate stiffness and multicellular coculture on endometriotic cell attachment to extracellular matrix‐laden microarrayed islands is reported. This model investigates early endometriotic cell attachment, aiming to capture “lesion initiation events”.
Hannah S. Theriault, Hannah R.C. Kimmel, Alison C. Nunes, Allison L. Paxhia, Sarah Hashim, Kathryn B.H. Clancy, Gregory H. Underhill, Brendan A.C. Harley   +7 more
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Heparan sulfate and cell division

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 1999
Heparan sulfate is a component of vertebrate and invertebrate tissues which appears during the cytodifferentiation stage of embryonic development. Its structure varies according to the tissue and species of origin and is modified during neoplastic ...
Porcionatto M.A., Nader H.B., Dietrich C.P.   +2 more
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Machine Learning‐Enabled Polymer Discovery for Enhanced Pulmonary siRNA Delivery

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study provides an efficient approach to train a machine learning model by merging heterogeneous literature data to predict suitable polymers for siRNA delivery. Without the need for extensive laboratory synthesis, the machine learning enabled a virtual screening and successfully predicted a polymer that is validated for effective gene silencing in
Felix Sieber‐Schäfer, Min Jiang, Adrian Kromer, Anny Nguyen, Müge Molbay, Simone Pinto Carneiro, David Jürgens, Gerald Burgstaller, Bastian Popper, Benjamin Winkeljann, Olivia Monika Merkel   +10 more
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Syndecan-4 Modulates Cell Polarity and Migration by Influencing Centrosome Positioning and Intracellular Calcium Distribution

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2020
Efficient cell migration requires cellular polarization, which is characterized by the formation of leading and trailing edges, appropriate positioning of the nucleus and reorientation of the Golgi apparatus and centrosomes toward the leading edge ...
Daniel Becsky, Kitti Szabo, Szuzina Gyulai-Nagy, Tamas Gajdos, Zsuzsa Bartos, Arpad Balind, Laszlo Dux, Peter Horvath, Miklos Erdelyi, Laszlo Homolya, Aniko Keller-Pinter   +10 more
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Double Cross‐Linked Hydrogel for Intra‐articular Injection as Modality for Macrophages Metabolic Reprogramming and Therapy of Rheumatoid Arthritis

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A hydrogel for intra‐articular injection for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is formulated and comprehensively studied. After administration, the hydrogel induces a metabolic reprogramming of immunometabolism of macrophages to trigger fatty acid oxidation subsequently inducing polarization of anti‐inflammatory M2 macrophages. This results in
Yutong Song, Valentin A. Milichko, Ziqiao Ding, Wen Li, Bei Kang, Yunsheng Dou, Sona Krizkova, Zbynek Heger, Nan Li   +8 more
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Adalimumab‐Poloxamer Conjugate for Bio‐Better: Enhanced Stability and Function

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Antibody‐polymer conjugates, particularly poloxamer conjugates, enhance antibody stability by improving tolerance to physicochemical stress and attenuating proteolysis by proteases. Furthermore, the higher affinity observed with poloxamer conjugation compared to standard PEGylation results in improved therapeutic efficacy in rheumatoid arthritis mouse ...
Jaewon Roh, Sanghee Lee, Soomin Cho, Kun Na   +3 more
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Proteoglycan Dysfunction: A Common Link Between Intervertebral Disc Degeneration and Skeletal Dysplasia [PDF]

Neurospine
Proteoglycans through their sulfated glycosaminoglycans regulate cell-matrix signaling during tissue development, regeneration, and degeneration processes.
Kimheak Sao, Makarand V. Risbud
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