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    Hydrogel-based delivery of Tat-fused protein Hsp70 protects dopaminergic cells in vitro and in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease

    Neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s disease (PD) have no effective therapies. However, many promising drugs are precluded from clinical trials because of their poor brain availability. The chaperon...

    Marta Tunesi, Ilaria Raimondi, Teresa Russo, Laura Colombo in NPG Asia Materials (2019)

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    Influence of the static magnetic field on cell response in a miniaturized optically accessible bioreactor for 3D cell culture

    Hydraulic sealing is a crucial condition for the maintenance of sterility during long term operation of microfluidic bioreactors. We developed a miniaturized optically accessible bioreactor (MOAB) allowing per...

    Luca Izzo, Marta Tunesi, Lucia Boeri, Matteo Laganà in Biomedical Microdevices (2019)

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    Cross-linked poly(acrylic acids) microgels and agarose as semi-interpenetrating networks for resveratrol release

    Carbomers, cross-linked poly(acrylic acid) microgels, have been widely used in pharmaceutical formulations as swollen hydrogels. Agarose, whose thermoreversibility may be exploited for drug loading, forms a ge...

    Marta Tunesi, Elisabetta Prina in Journal of Materials Science: Materials in… (2015)

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    Efficacy of Zosteric Acid Sodium Salt on the Yeast Biofilm Model Candida albicans

    Candida albicans is the most notorious and the most widely studied yeast biofilm former. Design of experiments (DoE) showed that 10 mg/L zosteric acid sodium salt reduced C. albicans adhe...

    Federica Villa, Betsey Pitts, Philip S. Stewart, Barbara Giussani in Microbial Ecology (2011)