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Design Strategies and Emerging Applications of High‐Performance Flexible Piezoresistive Pressure Sensors

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Flexible piezoresistive pressure sensors underpin wearable and soft electronics. This review links sensing physics, including contact resistance modulation, quantum tunneling and percolation, to unified materials/structure design. We highlight composite and graded architectures, interfacial/porous engineering, and microstructured 3D conductive networks
Feng Luo, Artur Ciesielski, Paolo Samorì   +2 more
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Syndecan-1 regulates vascular smooth muscle cell phenotype.

PLoS ONE, 2014
ObjectiveWe examined the role of syndecan-1 in modulating the phenotype of vascular smooth muscle cells in the context of endogenous inflammatory factors and altered microenvironments that occur in disease or injury-induced vascular remodeling.Methods ...
Somali Chaterji, Christoffer H Lam, Derek S Ho, Daniel C Proske, Aaron B Baker   +4 more
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Generation of myogenic progenitor cell-derived smooth muscle cells for sphincter regeneration

Stem Cell Research & Therapy, 2020
Background Degeneration of smooth muscles in sphincters can cause debilitating diseases such as fecal incontinence. Skeletal muscle-derived cells have been effectively used in clinics for the regeneration of the skeletal muscle sphincters, such as the ...
Marco Thurner, Martin Deutsch, Katrin Janke, Franka Messner, Christina Kreutzer, Stanislav Beyl, Sébastien Couillard-Després, Steffen Hering, Jakob Troppmair, Rainer Marksteiner   +9 more
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Active Learning‐Accelerated Discovery of Fibrous Hydrogels with Tissue‐Mimetic Viscoelasticity

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Active learning accelerates the design of fibrous hydrogels that mimic the viscoelasticity of native tissues. By integrating multi‐objective optimization and closed‐loop experimentation, this approach efficiently identifies optimal formulations from thousands of possibilities and decouples elasticity and viscosity. The resulting hydrogels offer tunable
Zhengkun Chen, Zheyuan Miao, Gary Tom, Austin H. Cheng, Elizaveta Gusarova, Benjamen Zondag, Tianyi Wu, Dianoosh Kalhori, Boris Hinz, Milad Abolhasani, Alán Aspuru‐Guzik, Eugenia Kumacheva   +11 more
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MicroRNA26 attenuates vascular smooth muscle maturation via endothelial BMP signalling.

PLoS Genetics, 2019
As small regulatory transcripts, microRNAs (miRs) act as genetic 'fine tuners' of posttranscriptional events, and as genetic switches to promote phenotypic switching. The miR miR26a targets the BMP signalling effector, smad1.
Charlene Watterston, Lei Zeng, Abidemi Onabadejo, Sarah J Childs   +3 more
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Smad3 Regulates Neuropilin 2 Transcription by Binding to its 5′ Untranslated Region

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2020
Background Vascular smooth muscle cell phenotypic change and consequential intimal hyperplasia (IH) cause arterial stenosis and posttreatment restenosis.
Xiujie Xie, Go Urabe, Lynn Marcho, Corey Williams, Lian‐Wang Guo, K. Craig Kent   +5 more
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Transfer Printing and Reconfiguration of Soft Electronics Using Digital Microfluidics and Laser Machining

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This paper presents a digital microfluidics‐based technique for transferring and reconfiguring soft nanomembranes. Laser‐machined nanothin membranes are picked up, transported, and aligned via tailored surface tension and the actuation of water droplets, enabling the development of flexible electronics, the integration of functional materials on 3D ...
Quang Anh Nguyen, Chi Cong Nguyen, Tran Bach Dang, Phuoc Thien Phan, Jordan Thorpe, Michael Listyawan, Nhat Minh Doan, Sinuo Zhao, Hongru Chen, Trung Thien Hoang, Mingsheng Xu, Jisheng Han, Thanh Nho Do, Adam Hill, Timothée Mouterde, Hoang‐Phuong Phan   +15 more
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Somatic PDGFRB activating variants promote smooth muscle cell phenotype modulation in intracranial fusiform aneurysm

Journal of Biomedical Science
Background The fusiform aneurysm is a nonsaccular dilatation affecting the entire vessel wall over a short distance. Although PDGFRB somatic variants have been identified in fusiform intracranial aneurysms, the molecular and cellular mechanisms driving ...
Li Hao, Xiaolong Ya, Jiaye Wu, Chuming Tao, Ruochen Ma, Zhiyao Zheng, Siqi Mou, Yiming Ling, Yingxi Yang, Jiguang Wang, Yan Zhang, Qing Lin, Jizong Zhao   +12 more
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Swelling‐Induced Stress‐Assisted Transfer of Nanodiamond Arrays With a PVA Carrier Tape for Conformal Bio‐Integrated Sensing and Labelling

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This work introduces a swelling‐induced, stress‐assisted water‐soluble PVA tape strategy to transfer‐print nanodiamond quantum‐sensor arrays onto soft, curved biological interfaces. The room‐temperature, water‐triggered process achieves >98% fidelity and residue‐free integration, enabling conformal quantum sensing on contact lenses, neural probes, and ...
Luyao Zhang, Lingzhi Wang, Xinhao Hu, Tai Nam Yip, Mingze Sun, Jixiang Jing, Lizhi Xu, Yuan Lin, Yong Hou, Zhiqin Chu   +9 more
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Human eosinophil–airway smooth muscle cell interactions

Mediators of Inflammation, 2000
Eosinophils are present throughout the airway wall of asthmatics. The nature of the interaction between human airway smooth muscle cells (ASMC) and eosinophils was investigated in this study. We demonstrated, using light microscopy, that freshly isolated
J. Margaret Hughes, Craig A. Arthur, Shane Baracho, Stephen M. Carlin, Kristen M. Hawker, Peter R.A. Johnson, Carol L. Armour   +6 more
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