Although most tissue types are capable of some form of self-repair and regeneration, injuries
that are larger than a critical threshold or those occurring in the setting of certain diseases …

Fibrosis results from aberrant wound healing and is characterized by an accumulation of
extracellular matrix, impairing the function of an affected organ. Increased deposition of …

Aberrant extracellular matrix (ECM) assembly surrounding implanted biomaterials is the
hallmark of the foreign body response, in which implants become encapsulated in thick …

Low cell engraftment is a major problem in tissue engineering. Although various methods
related with cell sheets have been attempted to resolve the issue, low cell viability due to …

Pulmonary fibrosis is an often fatal lung disease. Immune cells such as macrophages were
shown to accumulate in the fibrotic lung, but their contribution to the fibrosis development is …

Scar formation is a common physiological process that occurs after injury, but in some
cases, pathological scars can develop, leading to serious physiological and psychological …

Abstract Complex three-dimensional (3D) cell cultures are being increasingly implemented
in biomedical research as they provide important insights into complex cancer biology, and …

Here, we prepared sulfur and nitrogen self-doped carbon dots derived from garlic peel
extract (GPSNCDs) using a hydrothermal method. The as-synthesized GPSNCDs were …

Organotypic micrometre-size 3D aggregates of skin cells (multicellular spheroids) have
emerged as a promising in vitro model that can be utilized as an alternative of animal …

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a complex multisystem disease with the highest case‐specific
mortality among all autoimmune rheumatic diseases, yet without any available curative …