Axonal regeneration following surgical nerve repair is slow and often incomplete,resulting in poor functional recovery which sometimes contributes to lifelong ***,there are no FDA-approved therapies available to promo...
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Axonal regeneration following surgical nerve repair is slow and often incomplete,resulting in poor functional recovery which sometimes contributes to lifelong ***,there are no FDA-approved therapies available to promote nerve *** accelerates axonal regeneration,but systemic side effects presently outweigh its potential benefits for peripheral nerve *** authors describe herein a biodegradable polyurethane-based drug delivery system for the sustained local release of tacrolimus at the nerve repair site,with suitable properties for scalable production and clinical application,aiming to promote nerve regeneration and functional recovery with minimal systemic drug *** is encapsulated into co-axially electrospun polycarbonate-urethane nanofibers to generate an implantable nerve wrap that releases therapeutic doses of bioactive tacrolimus over 31 *** and drug loading are adjustable for applications in small and large caliber nerves,and the wrap degrades within 120 days into biocompatible *** released from the nerve wrap promotes axon elongation in vitro and accelerates nerve regeneration and functional recovery in preclinical nerve repair models while off-target systemic drug exposure is reduced by 80%compared with systemic *** its surgical suitability and preclinical efficacy and safety,this system may provide a readily translatable approach to support axonal regeneration and recovery in patients undergoing nerve surgery.
Immersion of scaffolds in Simulated Body Fluid(10SBF)is a standardized method for evaluating their bioactivity,simulating in vivo conditions where apatite deposits can be formed on the surface of scaffold,facilitating...
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Immersion of scaffolds in Simulated Body Fluid(10SBF)is a standardized method for evaluating their bioactivity,simulating in vivo conditions where apatite deposits can be formed on the surface of scaffold,facilitating bone integration and ensuring their suitability for bone implant purposes,ultimately contributing to long-term implant *** effect of apatite deposition on bioactivity and cell behavior of TiO_(2)scaffolds was *** were soaked in 10SBF for different durations to form HAP layer on their *** results proved the development of a hydroxyapatite film resembling the mineral composition of bone Extracellular Matrix(ECM)on the TiO_(2)*** XRD test findings showed the presence of hydroxyapatite layer similar to bone at the depth of 10 nm.A decrease in the specific surface area(18.913 m^(2)g^(−1)),the total pore volume(0.045172 cm^(3)g^(−1)(at p/p0=0.990)),and the mean pore diameter(9.5537 nm),were observed by BET analysis which confirmed the formation of the apatite *** was found that titania scaffolds with HAP coating promoted human osteosarcoma bone cell(MG63)cell attachment and *** seems that immersing the scaffolds in 10SBF to form HAP coating before utilizing them for bone tissue engineering applications might be a good strategy to promote bioactivity,cell attachment,and implant fixation.
This study prepared dumbbell-shaped titanium dioxide (TiO2)/gold nanorods (AuNRs) coated with mesoporous silica shells (mS) (AuNRs-TiO2@mS). Methotrexate (MTX) was further loaded into the AuNRs-TiO2@mS, and then upcon...
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Purpose: The primary objective of this study is to present, analyze, and quantitatively characterize the electrical signals obtained from neuronal cultures coupled to micro-electrode arrays (MEAs). Special attention i...
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Development of therapeutics for brain diseases has remained challenging,in particular due to the difficulty of passing the blood-brain *** a result,the current arsenal of therapeutics targeting the brain is limited to...
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Development of therapeutics for brain diseases has remained challenging,in particular due to the difficulty of passing the blood-brain *** a result,the current arsenal of therapeutics targeting the brain is limited to small,lipid-soluble drugs and there is a lack of options for treating neuroblastomas,Alzheimer’s disease,and many other devastating *** the advances in strategies for crossing the blood-brain barrier such as the use of nanoparticles(Hersh et al.,2022;Duan et al.,2023),such delivery systems have not yet reached clinical ***,novel platforms for the transport of therapeutics across the blood-brain barrier remain highly *** specifically holds for large molecules such as monoclonal antibodies and recombinant proteins,as well as nucleotide-based therapeutics and cell *** efforts in this field are increasing exponentially,with thousands of publications in the last few years.
This work aims at presenting a method for heartbeat classification based on multi-layer perceptron (MLP) and random forest (RF) techniques applied to the first difference of ECG signals. From the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Da...
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Aged individuals and astronauts experience bone loss despite rigorous physical *** mechanoresponse is in-part regulated by mesenchymal stem cells(MSCs)that respond to mechanical *** delivery of low intensity vibration...
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Aged individuals and astronauts experience bone loss despite rigorous physical *** mechanoresponse is in-part regulated by mesenchymal stem cells(MSCs)that respond to mechanical *** delivery of low intensity vibration(LIV)recovers MSC proliferation in senescence and simulated microgravity models,indicating that age-related reductions in mechanical signal delivery within bone marrow may contribute to declining bone *** answer this question,we developed a 3D bone marrow analog that controls trabecular geometry,marrow mechanics and external *** finite element(FE)models were developed to quantify strain environment within hydrogels during *** marrow analogs with gyroid-based trabeculae of scaffold volume fractions(SV/TV)corresponding to adult(25%)and aged(13%)mice were printed using polylactic acid(PLA).MSCs encapsulated in migration-permissive hydrogels within printed trabeculae showed robust cell populations on both PLA surface and hydrogel within a *** 14 days of LIV treatment(1 g,100 Hz,1 h/day),cell proliferation,type-I collagen(Collagen-I)and filamentous actin(F-actin)were quantified for the cells in the hydrogel *** LIV increased all measured outcomes,FE models predicted higher von Mises strains for the 13%SV/TV groups(0.2%)when compared to the 25%SV/TV group(0.1%).While LIV increased collagen-I volume 34%more in 13%SV/TV groups when compared to 25%SV/TV groups,collagen-I and F-actin measures remained lower in the 13%SV/TV groups when compared to 25%SV/TV counterparts,indicating that both LIV-induced strains and scaffold volume fraction(*** scaffold surface)affect cell behavior in the hydrogel ***,bone marrow analogs offer a robust and repeatable platform to study bone mechanobiology.
This work presents a method for automatic heartbeat classification based on principal component analysis and a convolutional neural network on ECG signals. We developed a database holding the first ten principal compo...
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Anemia, a prevalent global medical condition affecting approximately 33% of the world's population in 2015 and 32% of Indonesian adolescents in 2018, is characterized by a reduction in red blood cell count or hemo...
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Detecting sleep apnea through wearable devices poses challenges due to the condition's variability across populations and the inconsistencies in measurements attributed to current wearable technologies. This study...
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