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Ambekar, RaghuToussaint, Kimani C.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL 61820 United States
Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL 61820 United States
Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Bioengineering University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL 61820 United States
We propose the application of Fourier transform-second harmonic generation and polarization-resolved second-harmonic generation microscopy to quantify collagen fiber organization and content, respectively. As an examp...
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Mechanical properties of cells can be correlated with various cell states and are now considered as an important biophysical marker. While there are many microfluidic and other techniques emerged recently to assay cel...
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We have developed novel opto-thermo-mechanical actuators by effectively distributing a significant amount of single-wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT, up to 0.7%w/w) into liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) matrices. These SWCNT...
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We show evidence of electrical and thermal conductivity percolation in polymer based carbon nanotube (CNT) composites, which follow power law variations with respect to the CNT concentrations in the matrix. The experi...
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Numerous pre-clinical and clinical reports have demonstrated that the MRI-measured apparent diffusion coefficient of water(ADC) increases early in the response to a wide variety of anti-cancer *** has been proposed th...
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Numerous pre-clinical and clinical reports have demonstrated that the MRI-measured apparent diffusion coefficient of water(ADC) increases early in the response to a wide variety of anti-cancer *** has been proposed that this increase in ADC generally results from an increase in the tumor extracellular volume fraction leading to a greater degree of unrestricted water ***,an increase in extracellular volume has been ascribed to the cell shrinkage that occurs early in the process of programmed cell ***,other modes of death can be initiated soon after beginning *** other modes of death include mitotic catastrophe and necrosis,and may also involve changes in the fraction of water with unrestricted *** work quantitatively examines whether MRI-measured ADC is altered in response to therapies that induce cell death via non-apoptotic mechanisms and correlates ADC changes with cell death modalities regionally within the *** morphometric analysis show apoptotic responses were limited to the tumor periphery in apoptosis-proficient *** was not observed in deficient *** catastrophe was observed after treatment at the periphery and deeper into the *** was the predominant response in the center of the *** changes were moderate in the periphery and larger in the *** results indicate that early and significant changes in ADC can occur in concert with mitotic catastrophe and lytic necrosis in the absence of ***,changes in ADC may be a generalized measure of cytotoxic response to chemotherapy.
Here we report the fabrication of high conductive and large surface-area 3D pillar graphene nanostructures (PGN) films from assembly of vertically aligned CNT pillars on flexible copper foils and directly employed for...
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Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is a food allergy-associated disease characterized by esophageal eosinophilia and associated inflammation. EoE has become increasingly common in industrialized countries. However, curren...
Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is a food allergy-associated disease characterized by esophageal eosinophilia and associated inflammation. EoE has become increasingly common in industrialized countries. However, current management strategies, such as treatment with swallowed steroids and dietary restrictions, are nonspecific or negatively impact the quality of life of EoE patients. In addition, use of more specific therapies that target immunoglobulin E (IgE) and interleukin (IL)-5 have been largely unsuccessful in ameliorating EoE. Thus, there is an urgent need to identify novel, specific immunological pathways that underlie the pathogenesis of EoE that could be targeted to treat this disease. Recently, a genome-wide association study identified that EoE is associated with a gain-of-function polymorphism in the gene that encodes thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP). TSLP is an IL-7 family member cytokine that promotes allergic inflammation by eliciting T helper type 2 cytokine responses, IgE production, and the expansion of a distinct population of basophils . However, whether TSLP directly promotes allergic inflammation in the esophagus and the mechanisms by which TSLP might contribute to the pathogenesis of EoE remain unknown. Here, we describe a new murine model of experimental EoE-like disease that was used to investigate the role of TSLP in allergic inflammation of the esophagus. Murine experimental EoE-like disease developed independently of IgE but was dependent on TSLP-elicited basophils. Critically, therapeutic antibody-mediated neutralization of TSLP or depletion of basophil populations ameliorated established EoE-like disease in mice. Finally, elevated TSLP levels and exaggerated basophil responses were observed in esophageal biopsies from EoE patients, and a gain-of-function polymorphism in TSLP correlated with increased basophil responses in patients with EoE. Together, these data indicate that TSLP-elicited basophil responses may play a key role in medi
We present a non-interferometric method for generating vector beams. Potential gain in stability obtained from using this non-interferometric approach is expected to facilitate the use of vector beams in metrology and...
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