Background: Tumor stromal interactions have been shown to be the driving force behind the poor prognosis associated with aggressive breast tumors. These interactions, specifically between tumor and the surrounding ext...
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In this work, we report the preparation of MFNCs integrating MnFe2O4 magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs), near infrared CuInS2/ZnS quantum dots (QDs) and poly(ethylene glycol)-bpoly(lactide-co-glycolide) (PEG-PLGA) in a tet...
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The scarcity of effective means to deliver functional proteins to living cells is a central problem in biotechnology and medicine. Herein, we report the efficient delivery of an active DNA‐modifying enzyme to human s...
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The scarcity of effective means to deliver functional proteins to living cells is a central problem in biotechnology and medicine. Herein, we report the efficient delivery of an active DNA‐modifying enzyme to human stem cells through high‐density cell penetrating peptide brush polymers. Cre recombinase is mixed with a fluorophore‐tagged polymer carrier and then applied directly to induced pluripotent stem cells or HEK293T cells. This results in efficient delivery of Cre protein as measured by activation of a genomically integrated Cre‐mediated recombination reporter. We observed that brush polymer formulations utilizing cell penetrating peptides promoted Cre delivery but oligopeptides alone or oligopeptides displayed on nanoparticles did not. Overall, we report the efficient delivery of a genome‐modifying enzyme to stem cells that may be generalizable to other, difficult‐to‐transduce cell types.
Stainless steel is used extensively within orthopaedics as part of varying surgical procedures such as trochanteric osteotomy, sternum closure, patella tendon repair and reconstruction, patellofemoral ligament reconst...
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Given the difficulty of invasive methods to assess muscle action during natural human movement, surface electromyography (sEMG) has been increasingly used to capture muscle activity in relation to kinesiological analy...
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Given the difficulty of invasive methods to assess muscle action during natural human movement, surface electromyography (sEMG) has been increasingly used to capture muscle activity in relation to kinesiological analysis of specific tasks. Isolated isometric, concentric and eccentric forms of muscle action have been receiving the most attention for research purposes. Nevertheless natural muscle action frequently involves the use of a preceding eccentric muscle action as a form of potentiation of immediate muscle concentric action, in what is designated as muscle stretch-shortening cycle (SSC). The most frequently applied protocols for the evaluation of SSC on vertical jumps are by virtue of their reproducibility and control of experimental conditions, squat jump (SJ) without countermovement (CM), countermovement jump (CMJ) with long CM and drop jump (DJ) with short CM. The methods used to extract information and relationship of the captured signals also present a high diversity, with the question about the consistency of the methods and obtained results. The objective of this study is to evaluate the consistency of the analysis and results by applying different EMGs signal analysis techniques related to strategic muscle groups of the lower limbs at different countermovement evaluated in vertical jumps. Raw sEMG signals of 5 lower limb muscles of 6 subjects during SJ, CMJ and DJ were rectified, filtered and obtained their envelope, and then correlated (CR) for detection of synergistic, agonist and antagonist activity, applied principal component analysis (PCA) for the detection of uncorrelated components explaining maximum variability and normalized cross-correlation (CCRN) for detection of maximum correlations and time lag. CR of EMG envelopes presented higher coactivities (CoA) in DJ relative to SJ and these CoA superior to CMJ with greater synergy in DJ relative to SJ and CMJ that present several loop cycles corresponding to time lag of activity. CCRN of the EMG e
Telemedicine offers the ability to provide real-time medical support, education, and care to remote and austere locations under limited bandwidth restrictions. These types of communication channels can easily be overw...
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Telemedicine offers the ability to provide real-time medical support, education, and care to remote and austere locations under limited bandwidth restrictions. These types of communication channels can easily be overwhelmed and delays or interruptions make communication difficult, if not impossible. These interruptions destroy the temporal orientation of communication resulting in significant cognitive loading. The objective of this research was to lower cognitive load and minimize digital communication bandwidth by developing a priority model from perceptual quality and content focus of telemedical video. H.264/AVC encoding was used to encode two types of medical context with varying bitrates, frame rates, and frame sizes. Telemedical video contexts were room awareness, and medical procedure. Objective quality and subjective quality tests were performed using Structural Similarity (SSIM) and perceptual feedback, respectively. The objective of this research is to develop context specific telemedicine communication models for the highest perceptual quality for available bandwidth for the purpose of increased temporal orientation and decreased cognitive load. Our research presents a method to select the best encoding parameters (maximum bitrate, frame rate and frame size) for the medical context to minimize bandwidth and maintain diagnostic and education quality.
Background Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides noninvasive methods to quantify joint inflammation and early cartilage degeneration in monitoring rheumatoid arthritis (RA) progression 1 . High-resolution peripher...
Background Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides noninvasive methods to quantify joint inflammation and early cartilage degeneration in monitoring rheumatoid arthritis (RA) progression 1 . High-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HR-pQCT) provides reliable evaluation of bone erosion volumes 2 . Objectives To investigate if changes in MR measures from baseline to 3-month (3M) can predict changes in erosion volumes, clinical and functional assessment from baseline to 12-month (12M) in RA patients receiving methotrexate (MTX) and anti-tumor necrosis factor alpha (Anti-TNFα) therapy using MRI and HR-pQCT. Methods Seventeen RA patients with MTX treatment were recruited into either a low disease activity score (DAS) group (n=9, DAS28≤3.2) or high DAS group (n=8, DAS28>3.2). The low DAS group received MTX treatment only, while the high DAS group received additional Anti-TNFα treatment to MTX immediately after baseline visit (BL). Volumes of synovitis (SYN), bone marrow edema-like lesions (BMEL) and cartilage T1ρ values in wrist joint by MRI, bone erosion volumes in wrist joint by HR-pQCT, DAS28-CRP, Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ), and Michigan Hand Outcome Questionnaire (MHQ) were assessed at BL, 3M and 12M in all patients. Longitudinal changes were evaluated using paired t-test. Linear regression models were used to evaluate whether changes in imaging measure changes from BL to 3M predict changes in erosion volumes and patient outcomes (DAS28-CRP, HAQ, MHQ) from BL to 12M, after adjusting for age, gender, disease duration and therapy (Anti-TNFα added or not). Results Anti-TNFα therapy in the high DAS group resulted in significant decreases of SYN, BMEL at 3M and DAS28-CRP, HAQ and MHQ at 3M and 12M from BL ( Table. 1 ). The low DAS group in contrast, displayed significant increases in SYN and DAS-CRP at 3M and bone erosion volume at 3M and 12M from BL despite low disease activity ( Table. 1 ). Changes in SYN, not BMEL, T1ρ or bone erosion, f
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