Cancer Metastasis: The Role of the Extracellular Matrix and the Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycan Perlecan [PDF]
, 2020 Zehra Elgundi +6 more
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Advances in Bioprinting to Model Immune‐Mediated Skin Diseases
Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.This review explores how 3D bioprinting drives innovation in developing in vitro skin models that mimic immune‐mediated diseases. It highlights current technologies, key applications in studying skin pathologies, and emerging challenges. The review points toward future opportunities for improving disease modeling and advancing therapeutic and cosmetic ...
Andrea Ulloa‐Fernández +4 more
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Extracellular Matrix Components and Mechanosensing Pathways in Health and Disease
BiomoleculesGlycosaminoglycans (GAGs) and proteoglycans (PGs) are essential components of the extracellular matrix (ECM) with pivotal roles in cellular mechanosensing pathways.
Aikaterini Berdiaki +5 more
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Targeting Chondroitin Sulfate Proteoglycans: An Emerging Therapeutic Strategy to Treat CNS Injury [PDF]
, 2020 Nabanita Mukherjee +9 more
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.This study characterizes the presence of microplastics in human normal gastric, para‐tumor, and gastric tumor tissue and confirms the association between microplastic exposure and lymph node metastasis in gastric cancer. This study explores the transcriptomic changes induced by microplastic exposure, laying the foundation for further investigation into
Liqiao Chen +13 more
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Stable Histone Methylation Changes at Proteoglycan Network Genes Following Ethanol Exposure
Frontiers in Genetics, 2018 Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a chronic mental illness in which patients often achieve protracted periods of abstinence prior to relapse. Epigenetic mechanisms may provide an explanation for the persisting gene expression changes that can be observed ...
David P. Gavin +9 more
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Heparinase selectively sheds heparan sulphate from the endothelial glycocalyx [PDF]
, 2008 A healthy vascular endothelium is coated by the endothelial glycocalyx. Its main constituents are transmembrane syndecans and bound heparan sulphates. This structure maintains the physiological endothelial permeability barrier and prevents leukocyte and ...
Becker, Bernhard F. +6 more
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A Biomimetic Buffering Hydrogel Scaffold for Long‐Term Culture of Patient‐Derived Tumor Organoids
Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.A biomimetic fibrous buffering hydrogel controls the local acidification at the tumoroid/hydrogel interface at the physiologically relevant level over 21‐day culture. The buffering effect promotes cancer cell proliferation in the tumoroids and supports the structural integrity and mechanical properties of the hydrogel scaffold over long‐term tumoroid ...
Elizaveta Gusarova +5 more
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LOXL2 in anabolic response to chondrodysplasia mice progressive TMJ and knee osteoarthritis [PDF]
, 2019 Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative joint disease that affects an estimated 9.6 % of men and 18 % of women over 60 years of age. However, there is no chondroprotective agent that is approved for clinical application.
Alsaqer, Saqer
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Ciprofloxacin enhances the stimulation of matrix metalloproteinase 3 expression by interleukin-1beta in human tendon-derived cells [PDF]
, 2002 To determine whether the fluoroquinolone antibiotic ciprofloxacin, which can cause tendon pain and rupture in a proportion of treated patients, affects the expression of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) in human tendon-derived cells in culture.
Astrom +16 more
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