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Advanced Materials, Volume 37, Issue 7, February 19, 2025.A universal phase‐engineering strategy is reported to achieve mechanically robust hydrogels by tuning microphase separation using cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) and common compatible polymer systems. CNC plays a crucial role in contributing to mitigating microphase separation for strengthening and toughening hydrogels.
Siheng Wang +8 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 The aim of this study was to investigate the merits of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using an elastin-binding contrast agent after myocardial infarction in mouse models with deletions of monocyte populations.
Britta Elkenhans +4 more
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A synaptic nidogen: developmental regulation and role of nidogen-2 at the neuromuscular junction [PDF]
, 2008 Background: The skeletal neuromuscular junction is a useful model for elucidating mechanisms that regulate synaptogenesis. Developmentally important intercellular interactions at the neuromuscular junction are mediated by the synaptic portion of a basal ...
Fox, Michael A. +3 more
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Advanced Materials Interfaces, Volume 12, Issue 3, February 3, 2025.In here, the formation of water‐in‐water emulsions based on ultra‐high molecular weight poly(N,N‐dimethylacrylamide) and poly(4‐acryloylmorpholine) is investigated. The system phase‐separates into aqueous droplets by association of the different polymers at very low polymer concentrations.
Rafael B. Lira +6 more
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Role of the Extracellular Matrix in Cancer: Insights into Tumor Progression and Therapy
Advanced Therapeutics, Volume 8, Issue 2, February 2025.The extracellular matrix (ECM) is pivotal in cancer progression, influencing tumor growth, metastasis, and therapy resistance. This paper explores ECM remodeling, highlighting components like collagens and proteoglycans, their impact on immune evasion, and emerging therapies targeting ECM mechanics and composition.
Nimeet Desai +8 more
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Elastin haploinsufficiency induces alternative aging processes in the aorta [PDF]
, 2008 Elastin, the main component of elastic fibers, is synthesized only in early life and provides the blood vessels with their elastic properties. With aging, elastin is progressively degraded, leading to arterial enlargement, stiffening, and dysfunction ...
Boyle, Walter A +13 more
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Coarse-grained model of tropoelastin self-assembly into nascent fibrils
Materials Today Bio, 2019 Elastin is the dominant building block of elastic fibers that impart structural integrity and elasticity to a range of important tissues, including the lungs, blood vessels, and skin.
A. Tarakanova +3 more
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Biocatalytic Synthesis of Polymers of Precisely Defined Structures [PDF]
, 1999 The fabrication of functional nanoscale devices requires the construction of complex architectures at length scales characteristic of atoms and molecules. Currently microlithography and micro-machining of macroscopic objects are the preferred methods for
AB Mauger +59 more
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Tropoelastin a novel marker for plaque progression and instability:MRI of tropoelastin in atherosclerosis [PDF]
, 2018 BACKGROUND – Elastolysis and ineffective elastogenesis favor the accumulation of tropoelastin, rather than cross-linked elastin, in atherosclerotic plaques. We developed gadolinium-labeled tropoelastin-specific magnetic resonance contrast agents (Gd-TESMAs) for tropoelastin imaging in animal models.
Phinikaridou, Alkystis +6 more
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Structural studies of elastic fibre and microfibrillar proteins
Matrix Biology Plus, 2021 Elastic tissues owe their functional properties to the composition of their extracellular matrices, particularly the range of extracellular, multidomain extensible elastic fibre and microfibrillar proteins.
Mukti Singh +3 more
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