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Lu**g Li
Biomaterials
Biotechnology
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Prosthetic Vascular Grafts: Past, Present, and Future
Prosthetic vascular grafts (PVGs) have made a striking progress during the past more than 100 years. Dacron and ePTFE are the two main PVGs. Even now we enter into the endoascular era, both of the PVGs have be...
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Total Artificial Heart
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States and a significant public health problem in most industrialized nations. Since 1900, it has been the leading cau...
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Drug Delivery Systems and Cardiovascular Disease
Clinically, with the treatment of cardiovascular disease in addition to surgery and interventional therapy, drug therapy is also a common means. With the development of medicine, new dosage forms and new techn...
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Polymer-Based Nanotechnology to Combat the Emergence of Drug Resistance in Bacteria
Multidrug-resistant bacteria are posing a great threat to human beings. To address that challenge, polymer-based nanomaterials have come into the spotlight recently. Polymers have a great variety in chemical c...
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Microbial Compartments and Their Biomedical Applications
Microbial compartments (MCs) are nanostructures mainly composed of proteins and functionally similar to the organelles of eukaryotes. Therefore, MCs are also termed as protein cages. In MCs, toxic or vulnerabl...
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Animal Models of Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is an important zoonotic disease caused by infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) complex and has a significant impact on public health. Animal models are suitable tools to mimic the cl...
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The Flexible and Wearable Pressure Sensing Microsystems for Medical Diagnostics
The flexible wearable pressure sensor has the unique advantages of being lightweight and low cost and having good flexibility, and it has received extensive attention as a result of its great application poten...
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Islet Immunoengineering
From 2000 to 2020, 2170 patients globally received islet allotransplants. Islet transplantation into the hepatic portal vein seeks to replace the insulin-producing β cells that are lost to autoimmunity in type...
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Alginate-Based Inhalable Particles for Controlled Pulmonary Drug Delivery
The drug delivery to the lungs for the treatment of diseases has a very long history, and it has become the priority for respiratory care and attracts much rapidly increasing attention for dealing with local a...
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Dopamine-Based Materials: Recent Advances in Synthesis Methods and Applications
Dopamine-based materials have attracted considerable interests due to their unique physicochemical properties including versatile adhesion property, high chemical reactivity, strong photothermal conversion cap...
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Surface Modification of Metallic Biomaterials for Cardiovascular Cells Regulation and Biocompatibility Improvement
Interaction of cells and the metallic biomaterials usually happened at the materials’ surface and interface, which often decides the biocompatibility and further application of the medical devices. Clinically,...
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Nanoparticles for Enhanced Radiotherapy and Imaging Applications
The unique physical properties of nanomaterials have been increasingly applied in many aspects of medical therapy, and oncology is no exception. In particular, high atomic mass nanoparticles, such as scintilla...
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Recent Progress in Biomedical Applications of Chitosan Derivatives as Gene Carrier
Appropriate gene carriers are vital components of gene therapy for treating numerous intractable diseases. Compared with viral carriers, non-viral carriers exhibit lower immunogenicity and higher biosafety, wh...
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Levoglucosan Production by Fast Pyrolysis of Biomass After Dilute Acid Pretreatment
Fermentable sugars are valuable intermediates that can be produced from lignocellulosic biomass, in which hemicellulose and cellulose are favorable candidates for their production. In this chapter, the adaptab...
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Recent Advances in the Insect Natural Product Chemistry: Structural Diversity and Their Applications
Phylum Arthropoda is the largest phylum of animal kingdom with around one million different species comprising more than 80% of all known animal species. These include insects, spiders, ticks, lice, centipedes...
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Isolation, Purification, and Potential Applications of Xylan
There is great interest in replacing fossil fuel resources with renewable raw materials. Widely distributed lignocellulosic biomass is viewed as a potential candidate to address energy and environmental demand...
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Digit Regeneration in Mammals
The astonishing regenerative ability of the urodele amphibian limb has long been investigated as the chief model for regeneration in vertebrates. The urodele limb responds to amputation via a process called ep...
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Antifouling Surfaces of Self-assembled Thin Layer
Advances in new technologies such as biosensors, biomedical implants rely greatly on the performance of devices. In this chapter, strategies for preventing fouling of proteins, bacteria, and marine fouling org...
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The Application of Salting-Out in the Analysis of Methoxy-Phenolic Compounds in Pu-erh Tea
This paper presents the application of salting-out in the analysis of methoxy-phenolic compounds in pu-erh tea by using headspace solid microextraction (HS-SPME) combined with gas chromatography mass spectrome...
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The Effect of the Enzyme on the Liquid-State Fermentation of Pu’er Tea
In order to investigate the effect of the enzyme on the liquid-fermentation of sun dried green tea of Yunnan large leaf, three enzymes were used, including cellulase, pectinase, and flavourzyme. On the base of...
