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Towards topical antifibrotics in tissue engineering and repair

Towards topical antifibrotics in tissue engineering and repair

... its latent form bound to TGF- binding proteins in the matrix [44], and can in its active form be scavenged and possibly neutralized by decorin-mediated binding into the ECM [45, 46] (for review ... biomaterials for use in tissue engineering Unfortunately, effective characterization of antifibrotic lead compounds has been constrained by poor extracellular matrix formation in vitro, and the inability ... 71 Chapter Peri-implantational fibrosis: a bottleneck in tissue engineering 72 4.1 Biomaterials in tissue engineering 73 4.2 Foreign body response 73 4.3 Biocompatibility ...

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Synthesis and characterization of collagen terpolymer fibers for applications in tissue engineering

Synthesis and characterization of collagen terpolymer fibers for applications in tissue engineering

... proteins and new tissue formation Hence, the properties of the scaffolding materials are crucial in determining the success of many tissue engineering applications The general tissue engineering ... matrix proteins and new tissue formation Therefore, the properties of such biomaterials are crucial in determining the success of many tissue engineering applications Tissue engineering scaffolds ... vascularised tissues that can integrate with the host native tissues 2.2 Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering Biomaterials is one important component in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:10

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Laser surface structuring of biocompatible polymers films for potential use in tissue engineering applications

Laser surface structuring of biocompatible polymers films for potential use in tissue engineering applications

... failure Tissue engineering has been heralded as the new wave to revolutionize the healthcare-biotechnology industry It is a multidisciplinary field and involves the integration of engineering principles, ... Saw Dicing Journal of Laser Micro/Nanoengineering, 2006 1(1): p 84-88 K S Tiaw, S.H Teoh, R Chen and M.H Hong, Processing Methods of Ultrathin Poly( -caprolactone) Films for Tissue Engineering Applications ... of the tissue over the scaffold Fig 2.5 Five core technologies (biomaterials, cells, scaffolds, bioreactors, and medical imaging) required for tissue engineering [15] 13 Tissue engineering of...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:36

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biopolymer methods in tissue engineering

biopolymer methods in tissue engineering

... cells in a derivatized hyaluronan-gelatin composite sponge Tissue Engineering 5, 545–554 45 Doser, M (1999) Criteria for the selection of biomaterials for tissue engineering, in Polymers for Medical ... 1.2 Tissue- Engineering Scaffolds The main goal of tissue engineering is to produce new tissue where it is needed Therefore, knowledge of the structure and functional limits of the regenerated tissue ... (2002) Fibrin microbeads for isolating and growing bone marrow derived progenitor cells capable of forming bone tissue Tissue Engineering 8, 661–672 19 Marx, G and Gorodetsky, R (2000) Fibrin microbeads...

Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2014, 11:11

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Báo cáo hóa học: " Investigation of utilization of nanosuspension formulation to enhance exposure of 1,3dicyclohexylurea in rats: Preparation for PK/PD study via subcutaneous route of nanosuspension drug delivery" doc

Báo cáo hóa học: " Investigation of utilization of nanosuspension formulation to enhance exposure of 1,3dicyclohexylurea in rats: Preparation for PK/PD study via subcutaneous route of nanosuspension drug delivery" doc

... suitable formulations in time for a drug candidate’s in vivo evaluation remains a big challenge In general, formulations made at this early stage need to be prepared on a small scale using common ... beads (1.5 times weight by weight of the final formulation), and a vehicle containing 0.5% (w/w) Tween 80 in phosphate saline (pH 7.4) were added in a scintillation vial to the desired volume The ... maintaining free fraction plasma concentrations of DCU (3% unbound) above a multiple of the cellular IC50 (6 nM) at the trough levels Modeling of the pharmacokinetic data was performed using in- house...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 03:20

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báo cáo khoa học:" Gene-enhanced tissue engineering for dental hard tissue regeneration: (2) dentin-pulp and periodontal regeneration" pptx

báo cáo khoa học:" Gene-enhanced tissue engineering for dental hard tissue regeneration: (2) dentin-pulp and periodontal regeneration" pptx

... dentin is feasible because dentin is in intimate contact with an underlying highly vascular and innervated pulpal tissue, forming a tightlyregulated "dentin-pulp complex" During primary tooth formation, ... factors are incorporated into the developing dentin matrix during initial tooth formation, forming a reservoir from which they can be released following dentin breakdown The origin of pulpal ... secondary dentine at a low level Pulpal tissue retains a limited potential to repair itself following various insults These healing stages in the pulp resemble those of other hard tissues Depending on...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:22

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báo cáo khoa học:" Prospects of micromass culture technology in tissue engineering" pot

báo cáo khoa học:" Prospects of micromass culture technology in tissue engineering" pot

... most investigations concerning micromass technology were performed in developmental studies, only limited literature is available concerning the use of this technique in tissue engineering [14] ... to humans In addition, for tissue- engineering purposes, the number of cell duplications must be, for each species, carefully monitored to remain in the range of amplification allowing redifferentiation ... improved in sense of a repair tissue that mimics the features of the original skeletal tissue [1,24] Especially preclinical and clinical cartilage repair studies demonstrated that tissue formation...

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Applications of prolyl hydroxylase inhibitors in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine

Applications of prolyl hydroxylase inhibitors in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine

... obstacle in tissue engineering While the field of tissue engineering has come a long way since its original conception in the late 1980s, its clinical applications remain limited mainly to thin or ... Assessing functional vascularization 110 6.2.2 Applying our findings pertaining to PDCA-Gelfoam 112 6.2.3 Developing PHI-delivering materials for bone regeneration and tissue engineering ... fracture healing 28 2.4 Potential applications of PHIs in tissue engineering 31 Chapter Incorporation of a PHI into Scaffolds: A Vascularization Strategy for Tissue Engineering Applications...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 11:11

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mobile mini robots for engineering, Vol.6, No.1 Published in Australia© 2002 pdf

mobile mini robots for engineering, Vol.6, No.1 Published in Australia© 2002 pdf

... mobile robots offers interesting practical experiments for education in system engineering topics, motivated by industrial applications 84 K Schilling, H Roth & O Rösch Within the framework and ... appointed to the editorial board of the journals Space Technologie and Control Engineering Practice Prof Dr-Ing Hubert Roth is Chair for Control Systems Engineering at the University of Siegen in ... tele-education in engineering He is also the head of the Steinbeis Centre for Technology Transfer ARS Prof Roth worked earlier in the space industry on attitude and orbit control systems for astronomical...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 15:20

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Simultaneous in-field boost for patients with 1 to 4 brain metastasis/es treated with volumetric modulated arc therapy: a prospective study on quality-of-life" potx

Báo cáo khoa học: "Simultaneous in-field boost for patients with 1 to 4 brain metastasis/es treated with volumetric modulated arc therapy: a prospective study on quality-of-life" potx

... QoL in patients with BM, not including primary brain tumors, treated with VMAT and dose escalation The efforts at developing new therapeutic strategies in BM should not only focus on increasing ... The planning target volume (PTV) was obtained by adding a mm margin to the GTV In association with WBRT, a SIB was administered to all brain lesions A composite VMAT plan was generated for all ... EORTC brain cancer module (EORTC QLQ-BN20) for assessing health-related quality of life and symptoms in brain cancer patients Eur J Cancer 2010, 46(6):1033-40 Komosinska K, Kepka L, Niwinska...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

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Báo cáo y học: "Endogenous and exogenous stem cells: a role in lung repair and use in airway tissue engineering and transplantation" pdf

Báo cáo y học: "Endogenous and exogenous stem cells: a role in lung repair and use in airway tissue engineering and transplantation" pdf

... hydrogel D networks containing a cell-binding site for ligation of cell-surface integrin receptors and substrates for MMPs, proteases implicated in wound healing and tissue regeneration [51,52] ... II and VI collagen bind matrix receptors (integrins) Type II collagen can also bind to anchorin CII, whereas fibronectin binds to integrins A large proteoglycan aggregate forms when multiple ... (Figure 1) They include structural matrix proteins (collagens, laminin, fibronectin, fibrin, etc.) and molecules modulating cell migration (integrins), cell-cell and cell-substrate interactions...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

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Báo cáo y học: "Vpu serine 52 dependent counteraction of tetherin is required for HIV-1 replication in macrophages, but not in ex vivo human lymphoid tissue" docx

Báo cáo y học: "Vpu serine 52 dependent counteraction of tetherin is required for HIV-1 replication in macrophages, but not in ex vivo human lymphoid tissue" docx

... P4-CCR5 and 293T cells were maintained in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium containing 10% heat-inactivated fetal bovine serum The human Jurkat T-cell line was cultured in RPMI1640 medium supplemented ... out in 96-well-dishes in a volume of 100 μl and infected after overnight incubation with virus stocks containing ng of p24 antigen Three days post-infection viral infectivity was detected using ... subcloning of fragments containing mutations in nef or vpu in the pBR-NL4-3-IRES eGFP backbone [25,34] The pECFP-tetherin construct was cloned by amplification of tetherin from a cDNA library (Spring...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:22

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Vascularised bone tissue engineering endothelial progenitor cells and human mesenchymal stem cells coculture in 3d honeycomb scaffolds and the effect of bi rotational bioreactor and hypoxic microenvironment 1

Vascularised bone tissue engineering endothelial progenitor cells and human mesenchymal stem cells coculture in 3d honeycomb scaffolds and the effect of bi rotational bioreactor and hypoxic microenvironment 1

... Cues .26 2.6 Bone Tissue Engineering 30 2.6.1 Four-Stage Bone Formation in Bone Tissue Engineering 30 2.6.2 Strategies in Bone Tissue Engineering .32 xi 2.6.2.1 Growth ... bone tissue engineering (BTE) has emerged as an alternative for fracture repairs Tissue engineering is “an interdisciplinary field of research that applies the principles of engineering and the ... 1.4 Bone Tissue Engineering 1.4.1 Limitations in Bone Tissue Engineering 1.5 Importance of Vascularisation 1.5.1 Vascularisation in Bone Tissue Engineering 1.5.2...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 10:16

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Applying side effects of anti fibrotic compounds to promote neovascularization for tissue engineering 1

Applying side effects of anti fibrotic compounds to promote neovascularization for tissue engineering 1

... Biosynthesis in vitro and in vivo 99 4.8 Applications in Tissue Engineering: Pre-vascularizing PLLA Scaffolds 101 4.9 Advantages of Using PHi in Tissue Engineering 105 CONCLUSIONS 108 REFERENCES 111 v SUMMARY ... 4-Hydroxylase Inhibitors (PHi) Promote Angiogenesis by Stabilizing HIF-1α 1.8 In Vitro Angiogenesis Assays 12 1.9 In Vivo Angiogenesis Models 14 1.10 Fibrosis in Tissue Engineering – A Result of Foreign ... potential use in tissue engineering applications vi A sequential co-culture using fibroblasts and endothelial cells was modified and optimized for assessment of in vitro pro-angiogenesis In this inducible...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 08:18

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Development of three dimensional fibrous structures via electrospinning for applications in scaffold based tissue engineering

Development of three dimensional fibrous structures via electrospinning for applications in scaffold based tissue engineering

... proteins were retained in this manner indicating minimal processing damage Investigations into the performance of this novel hybrid mesh as a three-dimensional (3D), bio-functional tissue engineering ... field of tissue engineering emerged with the ultimate goal to develop biological substitutes that restore, maintain or improve tissue function [3] By combining life sciences, engineering principles ... tissue invasion and vascularization Since the rapid growth of the tissue engineering field in the late 1990s, a growing list of materials has been investigated for the application as tissue engineering...

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Development of cell sheet constructs for layer by layer tissue engineering using the blood vessel as an experimental model 1

Development of cell sheet constructs for layer by layer tissue engineering using the blood vessel as an experimental model 1

... layer-by-layer tissue engineering 12 Vascular Tissue Engineering .13 1.2.1 Clinical Need For Vascular Tissue Engineering 14 1.2.2 Structure and Organisation of Blood Vessels 15 1.2.3 Intimal ... taken for culture (Nerem 2008) In a bid to address the limitations of classical tissue engineering, newer strategies have been proposed, including cell printing and cell sheet engineering In this ... to investigate the use of PCL films as scaffolds in layered tissue engineering, using the blood vessel as a model The scope covers the engineering of microthin PCL films using bi-axial stretching...

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In vitro and in vivo assessments of PCL TCP composites for bone tissue engineering

In vitro and in vivo assessments of PCL TCP composites for bone tissue engineering

... look into the field of bone tissue engineering for an ideal bone substitute 1.1.3 Strategies in BTE Tissue engineering is the restoration, improvement, maintenance and substitution of damaged tissues ... a heparin binding site in N-terminal region of mature BMP-2 polypeptide In pioneering work by Ruppert in 1996, it was shown that BMP-2 activity was increased upon interactions with heparins present ... model for the costly heparan sulphate Heparin has been demonstrated to possess binding affinities for growth factors including VEGF and BMP-2 (Ruppert et al., 1996) As a result, heparin has been incorporated...

Ngày tải lên: 09/10/2015, 11:18

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In vitro and in vivo evaluation of customized polycaprolactone tricalcium phosphate scaffolds for bone tissue engineering

In vitro and in vivo evaluation of customized polycaprolactone tricalcium phosphate scaffolds for bone tissue engineering

... skeletal tissue, and this treatment strategy was later coined as “bone tissue engineering A key component in tissue engineering for bone regeneration is the scaffold that serves as a 3D template for ... materials for bone tissue engineering in dentoalveolar application can be extremely challenging 1.1.3 PCL-TCP scaffolds: Current drawback The use of synthetic polymers in the field of tissue engineering ... submitted for the degree of Master of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore under the supervision of Professor Teoh Swee Hin and Dr Alvin Yeo...

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