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In vitro tendon tissue engineering

, 2010
Tendon, ligament, and joint capsular injuries represent 45% of the 32 million musculoskeletal injuries each year in the United States. Tendon injuries are especially common, requiring surgical repair for the shoulder’s rotator cuff tendons (51,000 per year), the Achilles tendon (44,000 per year), and the patellar tendon (42,000 per year).
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Harnessing Phase Separation for the Development of High‐Performance Hydrogels

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Hydrogels are indispensable for the development of next‐generation bioelectronics, soft robotics, and biomedical devices, where their mechanical properties determine performance and reliability. Among strategies to enhance hydrogel mechanics, phase separation enables controlled heterogeneity resulting in gel networks that are reinforced by ...
Yue Shao, Yiming Ma, Baihao Shao, Molly M. Stevens   +3 more
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Bound Water as a Reinforcing Element for Ultra‐Strong Polyacrylamide

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Rather than acting as a conventional plasticizer, bound water serves as a reinforcing element in polyacrylamide by constructing strong PAM–water–PAM hydrogen‐bond networks. This water‐mediated architecture delivers ultra‐high mechanical strength and exceptional flame resistance, redefining the role of water in polymer reinforcement.
Sirawit Pruksawan, Nannan Li, Zehuang Lin, Jianwei Zheng, Terence Jun En Loh, Yi Ting Chong, Junhua Kong, Xunan Hou, Xian Jun Loh, Chaobin He, FuKe Wang   +10 more
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Stochastic Entanglement of Deterministic Origami Tentacles For Robust Robotic Grasping

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study introduces an origami tentacle gripper to robustly grasp objects‐in air, underwater, and even in orbital space‐by exploiting a synergy between local, deterministic deformation programming and global, stochastic entanglements. A single origami tentacle can be designed to coil with a simple tendon pull.
Alec Boron, Bokun Zheng, Ziyang Zhou, Noel Naughton, Suyi Li   +4 more
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The current status of various preclinical therapeutic approaches for tendon repair

Annals of Medicine
Tendons are fibroblastic structures that link muscle and bone. There are two kinds of tendon injuries, including acute and chronic. Each form of injury or deterioration can result in significant pain and loss of tendon function.
Wenqing Liang, Chao Zhou, Yongjun Deng, Lifeng Fu, Jiayi Zhao, Hengguo Long, Wenyi Ming, Jinxiang Shang, Bin Zeng   +8 more
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Heat‐Suppressing Projection Two‐Photon Lithography Enables High‐Throughput Sub‐Micrometer Manufacturing of Biopolymer Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The iLEAP technique integrates high‐throughput two‐photon lithography with extrusion printing, bridging sub‐micrometer precision and macroscopic scaffold fabrication. By employing a low‐exothermic photoinitiator, it mitigates thermal damage to biopolymers and preserves bioactivity.
Qifeng Guan, Yanzhe Fu, Xiangyu Xu, Naitao Li, Sen Hou, Kai Wang, Yufan Wang, Jiakun Li, Ping Li, Jiebo Li, Lizhen Wang, Yubo Fan   +11 more
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Hydroxyapatite-doped polycaprolactone nanofiber membrane improves tendon–bone interface healing for anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

International Journal of Nanomedicine, 2015
Fei Han,1,* Peng Zhang,2,* Yaying Sun,2 Chao Lin,1 Peng Zhao,1 Jiwu Chen2 1Shanghai East Hospital, The Institute for Biomedical Engineering and Nanoscience, Tongji University School of Medicine, Tongji University, 2Department of Sports Medicine, Huashan
Han F, Zhang P, Sun YY, Lin C, Zhao P, Chen JW   +5 more
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Integrating electrospun aligned fiber scaffolds with bovine serum albumin-basic fibroblast growth factor nanoparticles to promote tendon regeneration

Journal of Nanobiotechnology
Background Electrospun nanofiber scaffolds have been widely used in tissue engineering because they can mimic extracellular matrix-like structures and offer advantages including high porosity, large specific surface area, and customizable structure.
Yuwan Li, Zhen Ge, Ziming Liu, Longfei Li, Jian Song, Hongde Wang, Feng Tian, Pengfei Lei, Long Li, Jiajia Xue   +9 more
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Maternal Exercise Rescues Embryonic Osteogenesis Impaired due to POLG Mutation Through a Potential Apelin‐ATF4 Axis

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Maternal exercise (ME) increases apelin abundance across maternal and fetal tissues and is associated with improved fetal osteogenesis under POLG mutation‐induced mitochondrial dysfunction. Apelin‐APJ signaling is linked to enhanced mitochondrial function, Akt phosphorylation, and ATF4‐RUNX2 association, supporting coordinated fetal bone remodeling ...
Song Ah Chae, Ryan C. Riddle, Zhihua Jiang, Chaeyoung Shin, Min Du, Jun Seok Son   +5 more
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A Multidimensional Engineering Strategy Reprograms Microglia via Targeted and Sustained‐Release Extracellular Vesicles for Spinal Cord Injury Repair

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A multifunctional EV‐based nanoplatform (Ang‐TEVs@Gel) was engineered via preconditioning, surface targeting, and ROS‐responsive hydrogel encapsulation to reprogram microglia. This system restored autophagy via miR‐664a‐3p/PIK3CA axis, cleared myelin debris, resolved neuroinflammation, and promoted axon remyelination, ultimately achieving robust motor ...
Wu Xiong, Minhao Liu, Mingming Zheng, Jizhou Jia, Ziyan Zhu, Guang Kong, Jie Liu, Juan Wang, Wenbo Li, Qingyuan Wang, Qian Zhu, Peiran Chan, Tao Qin, Jiayang Wu, Yongjie Zhang, Chunming Tang, Cong Li, Jin Fan   +17 more
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