Imaging windows for long-term intravital imaging: General overview and technical insights

M Alieva, L Ritsma, RJ Giedt, R Weissleder… - Intravital, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Intravital microscopy is increasingly used to visualize and quantitate dynamic biological
processes at the (sub) cellular level in live animals. By visualizing tissues through imaging …

[HTML][HTML] Zebrafish as an emerging model organism to study angiogenesis in development and regeneration

MN Chávez, G Aedo, FA Fierro, ML Allende… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Angiogenesis is the process through which new blood vessels are formed from preexisting
ones and plays a critical role in several conditions including embryonic development, tissue …

[HTML][HTML] Boosting anti-PD-1 therapy with metformin-loaded macrophage-derived microparticles

Z Wei, X Zhang, T Yong, N Bie, G Zhan, X Li… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The main challenges for programmed cell death 1 (PD-1)/PD-1 ligand (PD-L1) checkpoint
blockade lie in a lack of sufficient T cell infiltration, tumor immunosuppressive …

[HTML][HTML] Cardiopatch platform enables maturation and scale-up of human pluripotent stem cell-derived engineered heart tissues

IY Shadrin, BW Allen, Y Qian, CP Jackman… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Despite increased use of human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes
(hiPSC-CMs) for drug development and disease modeling studies, methods to generate …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering human pluripotent stem cells into a functional skeletal muscle tissue

L Rao, Y Qian, A Khodabukus, T Ribar… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The generation of functional skeletal muscle tissues from human pluripotent stem cells
(hPSCs) has not been reported. Here, we derive induced myogenic progenitor cells (iMPCs) …

The softness of tumour-cell-derived microparticles regulates their drug-delivery efficiency

Q Liang, N Bie, T Yong, K Tang, X Shi, Z Wei… - Nature biomedical …, 2019 - nature.com
Extracellular microparticles (MPs) can function as drug-delivery vehicles for anticancer
drugs. Here, we show that the softness of MPs derived from tumour-repopulating cells …

Label-free DNA imaging in vivo with stimulated Raman scattering microscopy

FK Lu, S Basu, V Igras, MP Hoang… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Label-free DNA imaging is highly desirable in biology and medicine to perform live imaging
without affecting cell function and to obtain instant histological tissue examination during …

[HTML][HTML] CaCO3-Assisted Preparation of pH-Responsive Immune-Modulating Nanoparticles for Augmented Chemo-Immunotherapy

Y Zhu, Z Yang, Z Dong, Y Gong, Y Hao, L Tian… - Nano-Micro Letters, 2021 - Springer
Due to the negative roles of tumor microenvironment (TME) in compromising therapeutic
responses of various cancer therapies, it is expected that modulation of TME may be able to …

Biomimetic engineered muscle with capacity for vascular integration and functional maturation in vivo

M Juhas, GC Engelmayr Jr… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Tissue-engineered skeletal muscle can serve as a physiological model of natural muscle
and a potential therapeutic vehicle for rapid repair of severe muscle loss and injury. Here …

Surgical implantation of an abdominal imaging window for intravital microscopy

L Ritsma, EJA Steller, SIJ Ellenbroek, O Kranenburg… - Nature protocols, 2013 - nature.com
High-resolution intravital microscopy through imaging windows has become an
indispensable technique for the long-term visualization of dynamic processes in living …