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FXIIIa-Crosslinkable Synthetic Macromers Improve Stiffness and Adhesion of Hemophilia B Blood Clots under Fibrinolytic Conditions comments

by Christian Kastrup Karen Chan
Hemophilia is a bleeding disorder that affects roughly 1 in 5000 live births. A form of this disease, hemophilia B, is caused by deficiencies of the clotting protein, factor IX FIX , which is part of the coagulation cascade that, when activated by vascular injury, generates fibrin and its crosslinker, factor XIIIa FXIIIa ...
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UNRAVELING THE RELATIONSHIP BEWTEEN POLYPLEX DIMENSIONS AND TRANSFECTION EFFECTIVENESS comments

by Gabriele Candiani
Although linear and branched polyethylenimines lPEI and bPEI are considered the gold standard polymeric gene carriers 1 , some conflicting results on their performance have been reported...
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Glial cell-derived neurotrophic factor-releasing nanofibers with varied topographies for neural tissue engineering applications comments

by Stephanie Willerth Nima Khadem Mohtaram
Encapsulated, aligned nanofibers fabricated by solution electrospinning can serve as multifunctional biomaterial scaffolds, due to their desirable topographical and drug delivery properties 1 ...
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A Synthetic Blood Clot that Forms in Response to Numerous Specific Stimuli comments

by Christian Kastrup
Creating smart materials that form in response to environmental cues will require strategies for detecting an onslaught of diverse molecules, materials, and cells, and responding to a specific subset...
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Choline phosphate functionalized hyperbranched polyglycerol: A universal bioadhesive material comments

by Youping Li
Phospholipids containing phosphatidyl choline PC as a headgroup in cell membranes are proved to exist in all eukaryotic cells and at least 10 of all bacteria...
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