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Dong-** Yun
Biomedicine
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Graphene-Based Nanomaterials for Biomedical Imaging
Graphene is sp2-hybridized carbon structure-based two-dimensional (2D) sheet. Graphene-based nanomaterials possess several features such as unique mechanical, electronic, thermal, and optical properties, high spe...
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Protein-Based Drug Delivery in Brain Tumor Therapy
Despite the use of active surgeries, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy in clinical practice, brain tumors are still a difficult health problem due to their rapid development and poor prognosis. To treat brain tum...
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Materials and Applications of Smart Diagnostic Contact Lens Systems
Contact lenses were originally developed for the purpose of vision correction, but they have recently been used for various purposes. Because contact lenses are minimally invasive, they are used in diagnostic ...
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3D Bioprinting for Artificial Pancreas Organ
Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) results from an autoimmune destruction of insulin-producing beta cells in the islet of the endocrine pancreas. Although islet transplantation has been regarded as an ideal strat...
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Mas-Related G Protein-Coupled Receptors Offer Potential New Targets for Pain Therapy
The founding member of the Mas-related G-protein-coupled receptor (Mrgpr) family was discovered in 1986. Since then, many more members of this receptor family have been identified in multiple species, and thei...
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Cancer Cell Respiration: Hypoxia and pH in Solid Tumors
Tumor cells require large amounts of oxygen and nutrients for rapid proliferation. Blood vessel growth is not fast enough to meet these requirements, however, resulting in low oxygen and glucose concentrations...
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Carbon Nanotube Smart Materials for Biology and Medicine
This chapter is an overview of potential applications of carbon nanotube smart materials in biology and medicine. Carbon nanotube arrays are forests of aligned nanotubes prepared on a substrate. The nanotubes ...
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Osmosensitive Gene Expression of Taurine Transporter and Cyclin C in Embryonic Fibroblast Cells
Hypertonic conditions induce osmoregulatory activity. Molecular mechanism, however, remains to be further elucidated concerning the osmosensitive balancing activity. Using a differential display protocol, the ...
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Structure-Function Analysis of the HIV Glycoprotein
The envelope glycoprotein complex of replication competent retroviruses is comprised of two polypeptides, an external, glycosylated, hydrophilic polypeptide (SU) and a membrane-spanning protein (TM), that form...
