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Smart Catheters for Diagnosis, Monitoring, and Therapy

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This study presents a comprehensive review of smart catheters, an emerging class of medical devices that integrate embedded sensors, robotics, and communication systems, offering increased functionality and complexity to enable real‐time health monitoring, diagnostics, and treatment. Abstract This review explores smart catheters as an emerging class of
Azra Yaprak Tarman, Samiha Ahmed, Majed Othman Althumayri, Megan Guy, Darlenne Chavez Lugo, Frances S. Ligler, George T. Ligler, Rahmi Oklu, Hiroshi Kawahira, Michael J. McShane, Jun Kameoka, Jonathan Bova, Hatice Ceylan Koydemir   +12 more
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Characteristics of selected active substances used in disinfectants and their virucidal activity against ASFV

Journal of Veterinary Research, 2019
African swine fever (ASF), caused by African swine fever virus (ASFV), is currently one of the most important and serious diseases of pigs, mainly due to the enormous sanitary and socio-economic consequences. It leads to serious economic losses, not only
Juszkiewicz Małgorzata, Walczak Marek, Woźniakowski Grzegorz   +2 more
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Effectiveness of Chemical Compounds Used against African Swine Fever Virus in Commercial Available Disinfectants

Pathogens, 2020
African swine fever (ASF) causes huge economic losses and is one of most dangerous diseases of pigs. The disease is known for almost 100 years, an effective vaccine or treatment is still unavailable, only proper biosecurity measures, including ...
Małgorzata Juszkiewicz, Marek Walczak, Natalia Mazur-Panasiuk, Grzegorz Woźniakowski   +3 more
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Characterization of an Injectable Poly(vinyl alcohol)‐gelatin Hydrogel for Growth Factor Delivery in an Orthopedic Application

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This work introduces photo‐crosslinkable tyraminated poly(vinyl alcohol)‐gelatin (PVA‐GT) hydrogels as tunable injectable platforms for tissue engineering and growth factor delivery applications. This schematic illustrates the two developed hydrogel formulations and the experimental workflow used to evaluate their physico‐chemical properties in vitro ...
Alessia Longoni, Gretel S. Major, Sam Arnold, Samuel Tomkins, Eugenia Spessot, Scott Loeffler, Kieran Lau, Richard Tan, Jessica Harte, Roslyn Kemp, Tess Reynolds, Jelena Rnjak‐Kovacina, Gary J. Hooper, Tim B. F. Woodfield, David C. Kieser, Khoon S. Lim   +15 more
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Cytolethal distending toxin from Glaesserella parasuis induces ferroptosis in porcine alveolar macrophages and mice

Veterinary Research
Glaesserella parasuis cytolethal distending toxin (GpCDT) is a bacterial genotoxin whose main action is to activate DNA damage responses, induce cell cycle arrest, and induce the apoptosis of host cells.
Shiyu Xu, Li Lei, Zhen Yang, Yu Wang, Senyan Du, Qin Zhao, Xiaobo Huang, Sanjie Cao, Rui Wu, Yiping Wang, Qigui Yan, Yiping Wen   +11 more
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African swine fever (ASF) and ticks. No risk of tick-mediated ASF spread in Poland and Baltic states

Journal of Veterinary Research, 2017
Infectious diseases of swine, particularly zoonoses, have had a significant influence on nutritional safety and availability of pig meat as high-energy protein product since the time that pigs were domesticated back in the 7th century BC.
Frant Maciej, Woźniakowski Grzegorz, Pejsak Zygmunt   +2 more
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The Spillover of African Swine Fever in Western Poland Revealed Its Estimated Origin on the Basis of O174L, K145R, MGF 505-5R and IGR I73R/I329L Genomic Sequences

Viruses, 2020
The African swine fever epidemic occurred in Poland at the beginning of 2014 and, up to date, the disease has been spreading mainly in the eastern part of the country.
Natalia Mazur-Panasiuk, Marek Walczak, Małgorzata Juszkiewicz, Grzegorz Woźniakowski   +3 more
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The spatial ecology of free-ranging domestic pigs (Sus scrofa) in western Kenya [PDF]

, 2013
Background In many parts of the developing world, pigs are kept under low-input systems where they roam freely to scavenge food. These systems allow poor farmers the opportunity to enter into livestock keeping without large capital investments.
Cook, Elizabeth A., De Glanville, William, Fèvre, Eric M., Thomas, Lian F   +3 more
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3D‐Printed Gastrointestinal Stents: In Vivo Evaluation in a Swine Small Bowel Perforation Model

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Gastrointestinal fistulae and perforations can lead to severe complications including sepsis and patient death. In this work, the efficacy of 3D‐printed gastrointestinal stents composed of poly‐lactic‐acid (PLA) was evaluated in an in vivo swine model.
Gweniviere Capron, Parinaz Fathi, Tor Wolf Jensen, Derek J. Milner, André J. van der Vlies, Regan L. Moody, Elizabeth A. Bangert, Blair Rowitz, Dipanjan Pan, Matthew B. Wheeler   +9 more
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Enrofloxacin decreases IL-6 and TNF-α production by lipopolysaccharide-stimulated porcine peripheral blood mononuclear cells

Journal of Veterinary Research, 2016
Introduction: The aim of the study was to explore the effect of enrofloxacin on production of selected cytokines by porcine peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs).
Pomorska-Mól Małgorzata, Czyżewska-Dors Ewelina, Kwit Krzysztof, Pejsak Zygmunt   +3 more
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