Shaping Cancer Nanomedicine: The Effect of Particle Shape on The In Vivo Journey of Nanoparticles

R Toy, PM Peiris, KB Ghaghada, E Karathanasis - Nanomedicine, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Recent advances in nanoparticle technology have enabled the fabrication of nanoparticle
classes with unique sizes, shapes and materials, which in turn has facilitated major …

Biomaterials in tendon and skeletal muscle tissue engineering: current trends and challenges

M Beldjilali-Labro, A Garcia Garcia, F Farhat, F Bedoui… - Materials, 2018 - mdpi.com
Tissue engineering is a promising approach to repair tendon and muscle when natural
healing fails. Biohybrid constructs obtained after cells' seeding and culture in dedicated …

The effects of particle size, density and shape on margination of nanoparticles in microcirculation

R Toy, E Hayden, C Shoup, H Baskaran… - …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
In the recent past, remarkable advances in nanotechnology have generated nanoparticles of
different shapes and sizes, which have been shown to exhibit unique properties suitable for …

Surface-structured bacterial cellulose with guided assembly-based biolithography (GAB)

S Bottan, F Robotti, P Jayathissa, A Hegglin… - Acs Nano, 2015 - ACS Publications
A powerful replica molding methodology to transfer on-demand functional topographies to
the surface of bacterial cellulose nanofiber textures is presented. With this method, termed …

Endothelial cell micropatterning: methods, effects, and applications

DEJ Anderson, MT Hinds - Annals of biomedical engineering, 2011 - Springer
The effects of flow on endothelial cells (ECs) have been widely examined for the ability of
fluid shear stress to alter cell morphology and function; however, the effects of EC …

Micrometer scale guidance of mesenchymal stem cells to form structurally oriented large-scale tissue engineered cartilage

CL Chou, AL Rivera, V Williams, JF Welter… - Acta biomaterialia, 2017 - Elsevier
Current clinical methods to treat articular cartilage lesions provide temporary relief of the
symptoms but fail to permanently restore the damaged tissue. Tissue engineering, using …

Micrometer scale guidance of mesenchymal stem cells to form structurally oriented cartilage extracellular matrix

CL Chou, AL Rivera, T Sakai, AI Caplan… - … engineering Part A, 2013 - liebertpub.com
Tissue engineering is a possible method for long-term repair of cartilage lesions, but current
tissue-engineered cartilage constructs have inferior mechanical properties compared to …

Robust topographical micro-patterning of nanofibrillar collagen gel by in situ photochemical crosslinking-assisted collagen embossing

H Hong, DS Kim - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
The topographical micro-patterning of nanofibrillar collagen gels is promising for the
fabrication of biofunctional constructs mimicking topographical cell microenvironments of in …

Effect of cross-linking methods on structure and properties of poly (ε-caprolactone) stabilized hydrogels containing biopolymers

G David, M Cristea, C Balhui, D Timpu… - …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Different dense and porous biodegradable matrices based on solely atelocollagen, or with
different atelocollagen and hyaluronic acid derivative ratios, were obtained by varying …

Dynamic photo-cross-linking of native silk enables macroscale patterning at a microscale resolution

A Brif, P Laity, F Claeyssens… - ACS Biomaterials Science …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Light-based structuring methods have shown reconstituted silk to be a versatile and
appropriate material for a range of optical and biomaterial-based applications. However …