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The deadline for to apply for a WBC 2016 Lecacy Travel Award has been extended to Wednesday, March 1st, 2023...
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Dear Members, The IUSBSE has issued a call for proposals to host the World Biomaterials Congress WBC in May 2028...
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Dear Members, Abstract submission is open for CBS 2023 at Dalhousie University in Halifax, NS. Please submit your abstract on the conference website www...
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Functionalized Hollow Mesoporous Silica Nanospheres for drug delivery comments

by Zohreh Jomeh Farsangi
Nanomedicine attempts to enhance the bioavailability of drugs and to reduce their side effects. Creation of functional hollow mesoporous naospheres HMNs could be desirable for biomedical applications since their hollow interior can be used as storage or nanoscale reactor while mesoporous shell providing the controlled uptake release role...
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PAMAM dendrimer based formulation of haloperidol for brain targeting via intranasal delivery comments

by Yogesh Katare
Delivery of therapeutics across blood brain barrier is a challenging task as most small organic molecules have inadequate aqueous solubility, limited bioavailability or poor permeation across blood brain barrier 1 ...
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Surface charge characterization of hydrogel and silicone hydrogel contact lenses comments

by Lina Liu
Contact lens surfaces may be ionic or electrically neutral. Base on how different lenses interact with various lens care solutions and how they are affected by interaction of different proteins or lipids from tear film, FDA categorised soft contact lenses into 4 distinct groups including two ionic contact lens Group III and group IV...
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Recombinant human proteoglycan 4 releasing in situ cross-linking hyaluronic acid hydrogels for reducing post-surgical adhesions comments

by Tannin Schmidt Graeme Prosperi-Porta
Postsurgical adhesions are a significant source of morbidity causing bowel obstruction, ischemia, infertility or ectopic pregnancies following intraabdominal surgery 1 ...
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Viability enhancement of hydrogel encapsulated mesenchymal stem cells by a short pharmacological treatment. comments

by Francesco Touani Kameni
Cell therapy is increasingly used to treat various diseases such myocardial infarction. This therapeutic approach is limited however by the poor retention and diminished survival of transplanted cells in the ischemic, inflammatory and oxidative infarct microenvironment...
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