Electrical stimulation in bone tissue engineering treatments

L Leppik, KMC Oliveira, MB Bhavsar… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Electrical stimulation (EStim) has been shown to promote bone healing and regeneration
both in animal experiments and clinical treatments. Therefore, incorporating EStim into …

[HTML][HTML] Usiigaci: Instance-aware cell tracking in stain-free phase contrast microscopy enabled by machine learning

HF Tsai, J Gajda, TFW Sloan, A Rares, AQ Shen - SoftwareX, 2019 - Elsevier
Stain-free, single-cell segmentation and tracking is tantamount to the holy grail of
microscopic cell migration analysis. Phase contrast microscopy (PCM) images with cells at …

Bioelectric potential in next-generation organoids: electrical stimulation to enhance 3D structures of the central nervous system

M O'Hara-Wright, S Mobini… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Pluripotent stem cell-derived organoid models of the central nervous system represent one
of the most exciting areas in in vitro tissue engineering. Classically, organoids of the brain …

[HTML][HTML] Electrical stimulation of titanium to promote stem cell orientation, elongation and osteogenesis

JS Khaw, R Xue, NJ Cassidy, SH Cartmell - Acta Biomaterialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Electrical stimulation of cells allows exogenous electric signals as stimuli to manipulate cell
growth, preferential orientation and bone remodelling. In this study, commercially pure …

SCHEEPDOG: programming electric cues to dynamically herd large-scale cell migration

TJ Zajdel, G Shim, L Wang, A Rossello-Martinez… - Cell systems, 2020 - cell.com
Directed cell migration is critical across biological processes spanning healing to cancer
invasion, yet no existing tools allow real-time interactive guidance over such migration. We …

Air plasma-enhanced covalent functionalization of poly (methyl methacrylate): high-throughput protein immobilization for miniaturized bioassays

S Sathish, N Ishizu, AQ Shen - ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2019 - ACS Publications
Miniaturized systems, such as integrated microarray and microfluidic devices, are constantly
being developed to satisfy the growing demand for sensitive and high-throughput …

Transepithelial potential difference governs epithelial homeostasis by electromechanics

TB Saw, X Gao, M Li, J He, AP Le, S Marsh, K Lin… - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Studies of electric effects in biological systems, from the work on action potential to studies
on limb regeneration or wound healing, commonly focus on transitory behaviour and not on …

An analytical–experimental Approach to quantifying the effects of static magnetic fields for cell culture applications

P Ferrada, S Rodríguez, G Serrano… - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
This work aimed to study the effects of static magnetic fields (SMFs) on cell cultures. A glass
flask was filled with a liquid medium, which was surrounded by permanent magnets. Air was …

[HTML][HTML] Silk-CNT mediated fibroblast stimulation toward chronic wound repair

N Chi, S Zheng, E Clutter, R Wang - Recent progress in materials, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Diabetic patients suffer from chronic wounds partly due to altered function of
fibroblasts. Fibroblasts of diabetic patients synthesize collagen I (COLI) at a much higher …

Electrical Circuits That Supply Constant Electric Fields In Vitro

M Yamashita - Bioelectricity, 2020 - liebertpub.com
Background: To study the molecular mechanism of galvanotropism in vitro, the strength of an
electric field (EF) must be controlled precisely. In this study, I present a culture system that …