Background: Inflammation is involved in development, progression, and complications of atherosclerotic disease. Clinical studies have indicated that the level of monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 (MCP-1), IL-18, and adhesion molecules correlates with the severity of atherosclerosis and can predict future cardiovascular events. Experimental studies have shown pentoxifylline (PTX) reduces these ...

Plasma polymers (PPs) can easily modify material surfaces to improve their bio-applicability due match-made surface-free energy and functionality. However, cell adhesion PPs typically composed of various functional groups has not yet been fully understood. We explain the origin strong resistance trypsin treatment previously noted for nonendothelial cells on amine PPs. It is caused mainly by non...

Fungal infections with increasing resistance to conventional therapies are a growing concern. Candida albicans is major opportunistic yeast responsible for mucosal and invasive infections. Targeting the initial step of infection process (i.e., C. adhesion host cell) promising strategy. A wide variety molecules can interfere processes via an assortment mechanisms. Herein, we focus on how small d...

hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (hspcs) which give rise to different blood cell types are present within the bone marrow microenvironment, especially in flat bones such as skull, vertebrae, pelvis and chest. interacting factors such as stromal derived factor-1/cxcr4, very late antigen-4/vascular cell adhesion molecule-1, lymphocyte function-associated antigen-1/ intercellular adhesion molec...

considering the emergence of antibiotic resistance, scientists are interested in using new antimicrobial agents in the treatment of infectious diseases including infections of the enteric systems. lactic acid bacteria have the great potential to produce antimicrobial compounds that inhibit and control pathogenic bacteria. the aim of this study was to determine the anti-bacterial and anti-adhere...

Ultrafast acoustic imaging experiments are a powerful tool to investigate, at the nanometer scale, cell mechanical properties such as stiffness, viscosity, and adhesion, that play some roles in life death of cells. However, due complex structures, ultrafast signal analysis is quite intricate depends on multiple parameters. Complex data with poorly known parameters can be handled by clustering m...