Collagen mimetic peptides

Y Xu, M Kirchner - Bioengineering, 2021 - mdpi.com
Since their first synthesis in the late 1960s, collagen mimetic peptides (CMPs) have been
used as a molecular tool to study collagen, and as an approach to develop novel collagen …

Handheld bioprinting strategies for in situ wound dressing

H Li, F Cheng, DP Orgill, J Yao… - Essays in …, 2021 - portlandpress.com
Handheld bioprinting has recently attracted considerable attention as a technology to deliver
biomaterials and/or cells to injury sites by using freeform, user-instructed deposition …

Frame shifts affect the stability of collagen triple helices

T Fiala, EP Barros, MO Ebert… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Collagen model peptides (CMPs), composed of proline–(2 S, 4 R)-hydroxyproline–glycine
(POG) repeat units, have been extensively used to study the structure and stability of triple …

Predicting collagen triple helix stability through additive effects of terminal residues and caps

T Fiala, EP Barros, R Heeb, S Riniker… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Collagen model peptides (CMPs) consisting of proline‐(2S, 4R)‐hydroxyproline‐glycine
(POG) repeats have provided a breadth of knowledge of the triple helical structure of …

Optical imaging of dynamic collagen processes in health and disease

LE Iannucci, CS Dranoff, MA David… - Frontiers in Mechanical …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Collagen is a major structural component of nearly every tissue in the human body, whose
hierarchical organization imparts specific mechanical properties and defines overall tissue …

Bifunctional peptide that anneals to damaged collagen and clusters TGF-β receptors enhances wound healing

S Chattopadhyay, LBC Teixeira, LL Kiessling… - ACS chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) plays important roles in wound healing. The activity of
TGF-β is initiated upon the binding of the growth factor to the extracellular domains of its …

Multiscale label-free imaging of fibrillar collagen in the tumor microenvironment

MS Nelson, Y Liu, HM Wilson, B Li… - … : Methods and Protocols, 2023 - Springer
With recent advances in cancer therapeutics, there is a great need for improved imaging
methods for characterizing cancer onset and progression in a quantitative and actionable …

Use of 816 consecutive burn wound biopsies to inform a histologic algorithm for burn depth categorization

HA Phelan, JH Holmes IV, WL Hickerson… - Journal of Burn Care …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Burn experts are only 77% accurate when subjectively assessing burn depth, leaving almost
a quarter of patients to undergo unnecessary surgery or conversely suffer a delay in …

Multifunctional effects of wound dressing based on chitosan-coordinated argentum with resistant bacterial penetration

Y Wang, Y Ma, Z Jiang, H Hu, S Wang, J Chi… - Carbohydrate …, 2022 - Elsevier
Third-degree scald, causing serious tissue destruction with continuous pain, easily leads to
microbial infections and delayed wound healing. Therefore, a multifunctional treatment is …

Nicotinamide effects on the metabolism of human fibroblasts and keratinocytes assessed by quantitative, label-free fluorescence imaging

Z Liu, CY Chiang, J Nip, L Feng, Y Zhang… - Biomedical Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Alterations in metabolism are central to the aging process. Therefore, understanding the
subcellular functional and structural changes associated with metabolic aging is critical …