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Hydrogels for Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering
The advancements in scaffold-supported cell therapy for musculoskeletal tissue engineering have been truly dramatic in the last couple of decades.... -
Polymeric Systems for Bioinspired Delivery of Angiogenic Molecules
Growth factors are increasingly utilized to promote regeneration of lost or compromised tissues and organs. However, current strategies applying... -
Biopolyesters in Tissue Engineering Applications
Tissue engineering is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field of research focused on the development of vital autologous tissue through the use... -
Interfaces to Control Cell-Biomaterial Adhesive Interactions
Cell adhesion to adsorbed proteins and adhesive sequences engineered on surfaces is crucial to cellular and host responses to implanted devices,... -
Self-Assembling Nanopeptides Become a New Type of Biomaterial
Combining physics, engineering, chemistry and biology, we can now design, synthesize and fabricate biological nano-materials at the molecular... -
Modulating Extracellular Matrix at Interfaces of Polymeric Materials
As extracellular matrices (ECM) closely interact with cells in living tissues and, through this, influence essentially any aspect of life... -
The black box of the relationship between breast cancer patients and accompanying patients: the accompanied patients’ point of view
BackgroundThe PAROLE-Onco program was introduced in the province of Quebec, Canada in 2019. It integrates accompanying patients (APs), i.e., people...
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Identification and bioinformatic characterization of a serum miRNA signature for early detection of laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma
BackgroundThe growing understanding of cancer biology and the establishment of new treatment modalities has not yielded the expected results in terms...
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miRNAs: possible regulators of toll like receptors and inflammatory tumor microenvironment in colorectal cancer
BackgroundColorectal cancer (CRC) is ranked as the third most commonly diagnosed cancer and the third cause of cancer related deaths. CRC is greatly...
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Associations between modifiable risk factors and hepatocellular carcinoma: a trans-ancestry Mendelian randomization study
BackgroundPotentially modifiable risk factors for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) have been investigated in observational epidemiology studies in East...
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Immune dysfunction prior to and during vaccination in multiple myeloma: a case study based on COVID-19
Infection is the leading cause of death in multiple myeloma (MM). However, the cellular composition associated with immune dysfunction is not...
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Influence of cryoablation versus operation on circulating lymphocyte subsets in patients with early-stage renal cell carcinoma
Immune response is known to play an important role in local tumor control especially in renal cell carcinoma (RCC), which is considered highly...
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Systemic therapy and radiotherapy related complications and subsequent hospitalisation rates: a systematic review
BackgroundHospitalisation resulting from complications of systemic therapy and radiotherapy places a substantial burden on the patient, society, and...
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Inhibition of autophagy induced by tetrandrine promotes the accumulation of reactive oxygen species and sensitizes efficacy of tetrandrine in pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer, characterized by its poor prognosis, exhibits a marked resistance to conventional chemotherapy and immunotherapy, underscoring the...
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Advancing Understanding of Chemical Exposures and Maternal-child Health Through the U.S. Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program: A Sco** Review
Purpose of ReviewEnvironmental chemical exposures may disrupt child development, with long-lasting health impacts. To date, U.S. studies of early...
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The crosstalk between immune cells and tumor pyroptosis: advancing cancer immunotherapy strategies
Pyroptosis is a cell death process characterized by cell swelling until membrane rupture and release of intracellular contents. As an effective tumor...
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PET-CT-guided, symptom-based, patient-initiated surveillance versus clinical follow-up in head neck cancer patients (PETNECK2): study protocol for a multicentre feasibility study and non-inferiority, randomised, phase III trial
BackgroundApproximately 40% of treated head and neck cancer (HNC) patients develop recurrence. The risk of recurrence declines with time from...
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Rare histological prostate cancer subtypes: Cancer-specific and other-cause mortality
BackgroundTo assess cancer-specific mortality (CSM) and other-cause mortality (OCM) rates in patients with rare histological prostate cancer subtypes.
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Establishment of a trastuzumab-resistant extramammary Paget disease model: loss of PTEN as a potential mechanism
Background/objectivesExtramammary Paget disease (EMPD) is a rare, cutaneous intraepithelial adenocarcinoma typically treated with wide local...