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A novel strategy is described for preparing pH-sensitive liposomes which releases the encapsulated drug in response to the change in pH of surrounding solution. The liposomes, composed of conventional zwitter-ionic egg yolk lecithin (EL), additionally contains a pH-sensitive "activator" (AMS), a derivative of lithocholic acid with anionic and catio...
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In this work, different concentrations of Se-incorporated mesoporous silica nanospheres (MSNs) (5Se/MSNs and 10Se/MSNs) were successfully synthesized via an in-situ one-pot method. Their physicochemical properties were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The release...
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Small intestinal submucosa extracellular matrix (SIS-ECM) composite materials are catching eyes in tissue engineering but have been rarely studied in bone repair. In this study, we developed the unique bilayer bone scaffolds by assembling decellularized SIS-ECM and poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) nanofibers through the electrospinning techniqu...
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Water-induced shape memory polymers (SMPs) may have important applications in the fields of tissue engineering and biomedicine. However, most of the ideal candidates often suffer from non-biodegradation, weak mechanical strength and random macro-porous structure, which do limit the creativity and dynamism of water-sensitive SPMs. To address above i...
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Two drugs (cefpirome, cefixime) as dual-action inhibitors could self-organize on copper surface forming bio-functional protective film, which effectively prevents copper corrosion in the picking process with an excellent performance on the resistance of Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus). Energy dispersive X-ray spectr...
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Magnetic fluid hyperthermia has been one clinical treatment method in malignancy on account of the sufficient heat generation, which originates from hysteresis loss of magnetic nanomedicine in alternating magnetic field. Magnetic nanomedicine can also be employed as drug carrier for chemotherapy. Nevertheless few magnetic nanocarries has been appro...
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In this work, the microbial corrosion inside a perforation on an X52 pipeline steel was investigated in wet soil containing sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) by biotesting, electrochemical measurements, including open-circuit potential, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and potentiodynamic polarization, and surface analysis techniques such as 3D...
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Delivery systems responsive to pH variations might allow the exploitation of the various pH gradients within the body, e.g. between healthy and tumor tissue, or between the extracellular space and some cell compartments. In previous studies, we designed doxorubicin-loaded pH-responsive chitosan-tripolyphosphate nanoparticles (DOX-CS-NPs) and also p...
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A novel composite unit of enhanced synergism that rises from the use of a cationic pyridinium structure to attract anionic bacteria to three N-halamine structures was designed for superior biocidability on recyclable magnetic nanoparticles. Briefly, 5-(4-hydroxybenzylidene)hydantoin (HBH), containing one imide and amide NH bonds, was synthesized by...
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Single cell force spectroscopy (SCFS) enables data on interaction forces to be acquired during the very early adhesion phase. However, SCFS detachment forces and energies have not been compared so far with the forces and energies after maturation of the cell-material contact on a single cell level and with comparable time resolution. We used FluidF...
