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Biomaterial Strategies for Targeted Intracellular Delivery to Phagocytes

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Phagocytes are essential to a functional immune system, and their behavior defines disease outcomes. Engineered particles offer a strategic opportunity to target phagocytes, harnessing inflammatory modulation in disease. By tuning features like size, shape, and surface, these systems can modulate immune responses and improve targeted treatment for a ...
Kaitlyn E. Woodworth, Neal I. Callaghan, Locke Davenport Huyer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vorticity‐Facilitated Platelet Aggregation: a High Expansion‐Ratio Stenotic Microfluidic Platform Unravels the Role of Complex Flow Dynamics in Arterial Thrombosis

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This study reveals how vorticity—a swirling flow pattern—enhances platelet aggregation and thrombus formation in high‐shear conditions. Using a custom microfluidic model, it is shows that vorticity promotes vWF–GPIbα interactions and calcium signaling, providing new insights into thrombosis mechanobiology and informing safer blood‐contacting medical ...
Jianfang Ren, Nurul Aisha Zainal Abidin, Allan Sun, Rui Gao, Yuxin Chen, Arian Nasser, Zihao Wang, Yunduo Charles Zhao, Alexander Dupuy, Anna Waterhouse, Qian Peter Su, Daniele Vigolo, Mike Chia Lun Wu, Lining Arnold Ju   +13 more
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Seeing inside the Body Using Wearable Sensing and Imaging Technologies

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This review explores wearable technologies for noninvasive internal health monitoring. It categorizes approaches into indirect sensing (e.g., bioelectrical and biochemical signals) and direct imaging (e.g., wearable ultrasound and EIT), highlighting multimodal integration and system‐level innovation toward personalized, continuous healthcare.
Sumin Kim, Seunghun Han, Sehwan Park, Jahyun Koo   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Extreme exertion and right ventricular function

Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 1990
The authors propose that disproportionate increases in right and left ventricular afterload during and immediately after extreme exertion account for the apparent differences in ventricular ...
Douglass A. Morrison, Karl E. Hammermeister   +1 more
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From Mechanoelectric Conversion to Tissue Regeneration: Translational Progress in Piezoelectric Materials

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review highlights recent progress in piezoelectric materials for regenerative medicine, emphasizing their ability to convert mechanical stimuli into bioelectric signals that promote tissue repair. Key discussions cover the intrinsic piezoelectric properties of biological tissues, co‐stimulation cellular mechanisms for tissue regeneration, and ...
Xinyu Wang, Sílvio Terra Stefanello, Victor Shahin, Yun Qian   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Designing the Next Generation of Biomaterials through Nanoengineering

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Nanoengineering enables precise control over biomaterial interactions with living systems by tuning surface energy, defects, porosity, and crystallinity. This review highlights how these nanoscale design parameters drive advances in regenerative medicine, drug delivery, bioprinting, biosensing, and bioimaging, while outlining key translational ...
Ryan Davis Jr., Ishaan Duggal, Nicholas A. Peppas, Akhilesh K. Gaharwar   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Thermally Actuated Soft Robotics

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review focuses on the recent development of thermally actuated soft robotics, highlighting the four major heating mechanisms, as well as structural designs, thermal management, material innovations, and emerging applications. A summary and outlook section present the current challenges of thermally actuated soft robots and the future directions to
Shuang Wu, Seol‐Yee (Jennifer) Lee, Yong Zhu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Right ventricular functional assessment by three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography is useful for withdrawal from a right ventricular assist device: a case report

JA Clinical Reports, 2017
Right ventricular assist device (RVAD) implantation is one type of surgical treatment used for right heart failure. It is important to assess right ventricular (RV) function precisely when RVAD withdrawal is considered. Although assessment of RV function
Hiroki Taenaka, Tatsuyuki Imada, Ryuichiro Abe, Akinori Uchiyama, Yuji Fujino   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Volumetric 3D Printing and Melt‐Electrowriting to Fabricate Implantable Reinforced Cardiac Tissue Patches

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This study presents an implantable reinforced cardiac patch (RCPatch) combining volumetrically 3D‐printed metamaterials with melt‐electrowritten (MEW) meshes. The design integrates tunable stiff polymer structures with soft, cell‐laden hydrogels. The RCPatch withstands suturing, intraventricular pressure, and cardiac contraction in a large animal ...
Lewis S. Jones, Hector Rodriguez Cetina Biefer, Manuel Mekkattu, Quinten Thijssen, Alessio Amicone, Anna Bock, Miriam Weisskopf, Dennis Zorndt, Debora Meier, Li Zheng, Melanie Generali, Robert K. Katzschmann, Omer Dzemali   +12 more
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A Hydro‐Expansive and Degradable Biomaterial Enabling Shape Recovery of Film‐Based Devices in Biofluids

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A chitosan‐based bio‐composite exhibits stable and strong tensile strength during volumetric expansion in body fluids, serving as a functional coating that enables a thin film‐based device to self‐flatten from its tubular shape required for catheter delivery.
Ruoxing Wang, Jiajie Sui, Pengfei Chen, Zulmari Silva‐Pedraza, Jack Bontekoe, Jooyong Kim, Patrick Li, Fengdan Pan, Eric G. Schmuck, Satoru Osaki, Bo Liu, Xudong Wang   +11 more
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