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Bifunctional Surfaces With Immobilized Antibodies and Bioactive Peptides Mediate Selective Capture and Proliferation of Endothelial Colony‐Forming Cells

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
A tunable bifunctional surface is developed by combining Fc‐binding peptides and RGD motifs to present oriented antibodies alongside integrin‐mediated signaling. The platform selectively captures endothelial colony‐forming cells while promoting their adhesion and proliferation.
Hugo A. Level, Marc‐Antoine Campeau, Mohamed A. Elkhodiry, Gaétan Laroche, Jean‐François Tanguay, Corinne A. Hoesli   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Piezoelectric Surface Charge and Dynamic Stimulation Synergize to Promote Cardiac Myoblast Alignment and Maturation

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Surface polarization of PVDF films combined with mechanical stimulation generates piezoelectric electrical cues that modulate cardiomyoblast behaviour. Non‐poled and poled PVDF substrates provide distinct electroactive microenvironments influencing cell adhesion, proliferation, and differentiation.
Rafaela M Meira, Sylvie Ribeiro, Senentxu Lanceros‐Mendez, Clarisse Ribeiro   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gender inequality and the ‘East-West’ divide in contraception: an analysis at the individual, couple, and country level [PDF]

, 2016
Bracke, Piet, Dereuddre, Rozemarijn, Van de Velde, Sarah   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Wound Geometry Determines Whether Aligned‐Fiber Scaffolds Accelerate or Impede Diabetic Wound Healing: A Biased Random Walk Analysis

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Wound closure is governed by geometry‐orientation coupling: aligned fibers speed migration along their axis but hinder perpendicular advance. In vivo diabetic wound experiments with composition‐matched fibrin, combined with an anisotropic diffusion (biased random‐walk) model, quantify this trade‐off and generate a healing landscape.
Yin‐Yuan Huang, Xiangjun Peng, Yuxuan Huang, Kunkoo Kim, Chengli Li, Peilun Hu, Sean J. Wang, Rohan Avula, Chun‐Yi Yang, Pengchao Ma, Shuhui Yang, Shumeng Jiang, Guy M. Genin, Xiumei Wang   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Tri‐Culture Heart‐on‐a‐Chip Platform With iPSC‐Derived Cardiac Cells for Predictive Cardiotoxicity Testing

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This study presents the first entirely isogenic heart‐on‐chip, unifying cardiomyocytes, fibroblasts, and endothelial cells from a single iPSC source. The platform reveals a critical biological insight: the endothelium actively shields cardiac tissue from drug‐induced toxicity, challenging the predictive accuracy of conventional, avascular models for ...
Karine Tadevosyan, Jose Yeste, Mar Alvarez, Denise Marrero, Laura Casado‐Medina, Yvonne Richaud‐Patin, Olalla García‐Iglesias, Jagoda Litowczenko, Alba Morillas Garcia, Anton Guimerà, Xavi Illa, Rosa Villa, Angel Raya   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Soft Neural Interfaces for Circuit‐Level Analysis of Magnetogenetic Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson's Disease Models

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Magnetogenetic deep brain stimulation (MG‐DBS) represents a wireless neuromodulation that has demonstrated long‐lasting behavioral benefits in Parkinson's disease models. However, the circuit‐level mechanisms underlying these therapeutic effects have remained uncharacterized due to limitations of conventional neural interfaces.
Jakyoung Lee, Yeongdo Lee, Enji Kim, Hunkyu Seo, Myoungjae Oh, Hanho Joo, Somin Lee, Jae‐Hyun Lee, Hyun Ho Jung, Minsuk Kwak, Jang‐Ung Park   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Thermo‐Fluorescent Bactericidal Quantum Dots Based Smart Multifunctional Textiles via Molecular Surface Engineering and 3D‐Printed Interlocked Architectures

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
A versatile approach is presented for fabricating smart multifunctional textiles by integrating thermo‐fluorescent carbon dot/polymer nanocomposite coatings with 3D‐printed interlocked architectures. The fabrics exhibit temperature‐responsive fluorescence, durable hydrophobicity, strong antibacterial and antioxidant activity, and enhanced UV protection.
Poushali Das, Sayan Ganguly, Parham Khoshbakht Marvi, Misha Muthalali, Fatemeh Parniani, Shiza Hassan, Xiaowu (Shirley) Tang, Seshasai Srinivasan, Amin Reza Rajabzadeh   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhanced Endoscopic Internal Drainage of Gastric Abscess Through Additively Manufactured Stents

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Postoperative gastric leaks are often treated with off‐label biliary double‐pigtail stents, yet conventional extruded designs are not optimized for leak anatomy, can migrate, and may limit abscess evacuation. PETALS is introduced to optimize transmural drainage geometry and enable patient‐specific 3D‐printable stents.
Parima Phowarasoontorn, Yongbin Ko, Juan S. Barajas‐Gamboa, Juan P. Pantoja, Oraib Al‐Ketan, Mohamed Ali, Sungyun Sohn, Heba Tageldeen Naser, Abdel‐Hameed Dabbour, Batoul Khlaifat, Ahmed AlZubaidi, Carlos Abril Vega, John Rodriguez, Matthew Kroh, Khalil B. Ramadi   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Oxygen Supply of Islets of Langerhans by Photosynthetically Active Microalgae in Bioprinted Co‐Cultures Maintains Their Function in a Hypoxic Environment

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This study developed a bioprinted co‐culture system embedding rat pancreatic islets and Scenedesmus sp. microalgae spatially defined in close vicinity. Red light was found optimal to ensure microalgal photosynthesis while maintaining islet viability and functionality. A tailored co‐culture medium supported both cell types.
Finn Dani, Sarah Duin, Ashwini Rahul Akkineni, Susann Lehmann, Barbara Ludwig, Michael Kühl, Michael Gelinsky, Anja Lode   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Psychosocial profile of women who have undergone sterilization: A cross sectional study

Archives of Mental Health, 2011
Background Though sterilization is a popular method of contraception, there are some concerns about the psychological sequelae including regret after the procedure. Such regret may result in lifelong personal distress.
Sudha Rani, M Gowri Devi, B Anand
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