Electrospinning is a promising approach for the development of fibrous tissue engineering (TE) scaffolds suitable hard and soft tissues. Apart from physicomechanical properties, electrospun fibers are required to incorporate bioactive cues control cellular functions, including facilitating biomineralization osteogenic differentiation in case bone TE, as well vascularization, support successful ...

INTRODUCTION Admission blood glucose (BG) level is a predictor of mortality in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). However, limited data are available relating admission BG to mortality in patients with STEMI complicated by cardiogenic shock, and it is not known whether diabetic status has an independent effect on this relationship. METHODS Between November 2005 ...

To test the hypothesis that a platelet-rich plasma (PRP) plus bioactive glass (BG) mixture could shorten the tendon-bone healing process in rotator cuff tendon repair, thirty mature male New Zealand white rabbits were randomly divided into three groups, Control, PRP, and PRP + BG. All groups underwent a surgical procedure to establish a rotator cuff tendon healing model. Mechanical examinations...

Self-aligned four-terminal (4T) planar metal double-gate (DG) polycrystalline-silicon (poly-Si) thin-film transistors (TFTs) were fabricated on a glass substrate at a low temperature (LT), which is below 550◦C, to realize high performance and low power dissipation system-onglass (SoG). The top gate (TG) and bottom gate (BG) were formed from tungsten (W); the BG was embedded in the glass substra...

The terminology and notation used here are introduced in the following articles: [1], [2], [3], [4], and [5]. In this paper Y is a non empty set. We now state a number of propositions: (1) For every element a of BVF(Y ) and for every subset G of PARTITIONS(Y ) and for all partitions A, B of Y holds ¬∃∀a,AG,BG ⋐ ∃∃ ¬a,BG,AG. (2) Let a be an element of BVF(Y ), G be a subset of PARTITIONS(Y ), an...

Scaffolds have an important role in cartilage tissue engineering. Poly(hydroxybutyrate‑co‑hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV) has been demonstrated to have potential as a scaffold for the three dimensional construction of engineered cartilage tissue. However, the poor hydrophilicity and mechanical strength associated with PHBV affects its clinical applications as a scaffold in cartilage tissue engineering....

BACKGROUND Enlarged perivascular spaces (EPVS) correlate with cognitive impairment and incident dementia. However, etiologies for severe basal ganglia EPVS (BG-EPVS) are still unclear. Our aim was to investigate the independent risk factors for severe BG-EPVS in patients with acute lacunar stroke. METHODS We prospectively identified patients with lacunar stroke (diameter on DWI ≤ 20mm) from J...

The main limitation preventing the use of enzymatic cellulosic ethanol in industrial production is its higher cost which is mainly due to the elevated price of β-glucosidase (BG). Herein, we report on a simple strategy for the in-situ encapsulation of BG for repeated cellulosic ethanol production. In this strategy, BG was net-immobilized into a poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) net-cloth layer on a P...

Black ginseng (BG) has been widely used as herbal treatment for improving physiological function. In order to investigate the neuroprotective action of this herbal medicine, we examined the influence of BG on the learning and memory of rats using the Morris water maze, and we studied the effects of BG on the central cholinergic system and neural nitric oxide synthesis in the hippocampus of rats...

OBJECTIVE We have examined whether rapid changes in blood glucose (BG) result in clinically relevant differences between capillary BG values measured at the forearm and the fingertip and whether local rubbing of the skin before blood sampling can diminish such differences. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Capillary BG samples were collected every 15 min for 3-5 h from the fingertip and the forearm...