Viral and bacterial infections continue to pose significant challenges for numerous
individuals globally. To develop novel therapies to combat infections, more insight into the …

Sleep apnea (SA) is a very prevalent sleep breathing disorder mainly characterized by
intermittent hypoxemia and sleep fragmentation, with ensuing systemic inflammation …

The approval of anticancer therapeutic strategies is still slowed down by the lack of models
able to faithfully reproduce in vivo cancer physiology. On one hand, the conventional in vitro …

Pulmonary infections have been a leading etiology of morbidity and mortality worldwide.
Upper and lower respiratory tract infections have multifactorial causes, which include …

Disruption of the complex interplay between cells and extracellular matrix (ECM), the
scaffold that provides support, biochemical and biomechanical cues, is emerging as a key …

In this study, we investigated a novel approach to fabricate multifunctional ionic gel sensors
by using deep eutectic solvents (DESs) as replacements for water. When two distinct DESs …

The use of physiomimetic decellularized extracellular matrix-derived hydrogels is attracting
interest since they can modulate the therapeutic capacity of numerous cell types, including …

Advances in tissue engineering continue at a rapid pace and have provided novel
methodologies and insights into normal cell and tissue homeostasis, disease pathogenesis …

Background: Patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) experience recurrent hypoxemic
events with a frequency sometimes exceeding 60 events/h. These episodic events induce …

Background: Different asthma phenotypes are driven by molecular endotypes. A Th1-high
phenotype is linked to severe, therapy-refractory asthma, subclinical infections and …