Methods for implant acceptance and wound healing: material selection and implant location modulate macrophage and fibroblast phenotypes

A Boddupalli, L Zhu, KM Bratlie - Advanced Healthcare …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This review focuses on materials and methods used to induce phenotypic changes in
macrophages and fibroblasts. Herein, we give a brief overview on how changes in …

Bioencapsulation technologies in tissue engineering

RL Majewski, W Zhang, X Ma, Z Cui… - Journal of applied …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Bioencapsulation technologies have played an important role in the developing successes
of tissue engineering. Besides offering immunoisolation, they also show promise for …

[HTML][HTML] Mass production of shaped particles through vortex ring freezing

D An, A Warning, KG Yancey, CT Chang… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
A vortex ring is a torus-shaped fluidic vortex. During its formation, the fluid experiences a rich
variety of intriguing geometrical intermediates from spherical to toroidal. Here we show that …

Composite vascular scaffold combining electrospun fibers and physically-crosslinked hydrogel with copper wire-induced grooves structure

Y Liu, C Jiang, S Li, Q Hu - journal of the mechanical behavior of …, 2016 - Elsevier
While the field of tissue engineered vascular grafts has greatly advanced, many
inadequacies still exist. Successfully developed scaffolds require mechanical and structural …

Polymerization of hydrogel network on microfiber surface: synthesis of hybrid water-absorbing matrices for biomedical applications

JY Wang, K Wang, X Gu, Y Luo - ACS Biomaterials Science & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Biodegradable plastics and hydrogels possess distinct mechanical/biocompatibility
properties that are indispensible in device design. It is desirable to combine their …

Flexible control of cellular encapsulation, permeability, and release in a droplet-templated bifunctional copolymer scaffold

Q Chen, D Chen, J Wu, JM Lin - Biomicrofluidics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Designing cell-compatible, bio-degradable, and stimuli-responsive hydrogels is very
important for biomedical applications in cellular delivery and micro-scale tissue engineering …

Bioinspired metal ion coordinated polyelectrolyte fibrous nanoreactors

A Malhotra, T Bera, L Zhai - Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Inspired by natural metal ion/ligand interactions, stable electrospun hydrogel fibers (EHFs)
are produced from polyelectrolyte complexes coordinated with various metal ions. This …

Drug-eluting conformal coatings on individual cells

Y Zhang, D An, W Song, Y Pardo, M Ma - Cellular and Molecular …, 2016 - Springer
Thin, conformal coatings on cell membranes provide potential solutions to many of the
challenges associated with cellular therapies. These coatings can protect transplanted cells …

The preservation of living cells with biocompatible microparticles

J Yang, Y Zhu, T Xu, C Pan, N Cai, H Huang… - …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Biomedical applications of living cells have rapidly expanded in many fields such as toxic
detection, drug screening, and regenerative medicine, etc. Efficient methods to support cell …

Functionality and antidiabetic utility of β-and L-cell containing pseudoislets

AD Green, S Vasu, PR Flatt - Experimental Cell Research, 2016 - Elsevier
Unavailability of tissue and poor engraftment remain significant obstacles to clinical islet
transplantation. Here, the therapeutic potential of pseudoislets generated from the insulin …