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Osmolarity: A hidden factor in Nanotoxicology

In the field of drug delivery, long circulating nanocarriers in the blood have many advantages such as targeted drug delivery and sustained release. Based on our current knowledge, evaluation of the effect of long circulating nanocarriers in the blood stre ...

Biomed Central Ltd2016

Prolonged river water pollution due to variable-density flow and solute transport in the riverbed

David Andrew Barry

A laboratory experiment and numerical modeling were used to examine effects of density gradients on hyporheic flow and solute transport under the condition of a solute pulse input to a river with regular bed forms. Relatively low-density gradients due to a ...

American Geophysical Union2015

On the Thermodynamics of Framework Breathing: A Free Energy Model for Gas Adsorption in MIL-53

Berend Smit

When adsorbing guest molecules, the porous metal-organic framework MIL-53(Cr) may vary its cell parameters drastically while retaining its crystallinity. A first approach to the thermodynamic analysis of this "framework breathing" consists of comparing the ...

2013

A Viscosity-Dependent Affinity Sensor for Continous Monitoring of Glucose in Biological Fluids

Christophe Boss

For fifty years, tremendous efforts have been directed towards the development of glucose sensors for tight glycemic control of diabetic patients. Today, millions of diabetics test their blood glucose level daily, making glucose the most commonly tested an ...

EPFL2012

Characterization of the motion of membrane proteins using high-speed atomic force microscopy

Henning Paul-Julius Stahlberg

For cells to function properly(1), membrane proteins must be able to diffuse within biological membranes. The functions of these membrane proteins depend on their position and also on protein-protein and protein-lipid interactions(2). However, so far, it h ...

Springer Nature2012

Benchmark of experimental techniques for measuring and controlling suction

Lyesse Laloui, Hervé Péron

The paper presents a benchmarking study carried out within the ‘Mechanics of Unsaturated Soils for Engineering’ (MUSE) network aimed at comparing different techniques for measurement and control of suction. Techniques tested by the eight ‘Mechanics of Unsa ...

2011

Study of the pO2-sensitivity of the dendrimeric and free forms of Pd-meso-tetra(4-carboxyphenyl)porphyrin, incorporated or not in chitosan-based nanoparticles

Hubert van den Bergh, Georges Wagnières, Peter Käuper, Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska

The concentration of oxygen and its rate of consumption are important factors in certain medical treatments, such as radiotherapy and photodynamic therapy (PDT). Measuring the tissue concentration of oxygen or its partial pressure (pO2) can be achieved by ...

Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft2011

Force spectroscopy of barnase-barstar single molecule interaction

Giovanni Dietler, Mélanie Favre, Dmitry Klinov

Results of the single molecule force spectroscopy study of specific interactions between ribonuclease barnase and its inhibitor barstar are presented. Experimental data obtained for the force loading rate ranging 2-70 nN/s are well approximated by a single ...

Wiley-Blackwell2010

Direct Observation of Transitions between Surface-Dominated and Bulk Diffusion Regimes in Nanochannels

Philippe Renaud, Theo Lasser, Arnaud Bertsch, Nicolas Durand, Claudio Dellagiacoma, Raphaël Goetschmann

The diffusion of charged proteins in liquid-filled nanometer-sized apertures with charged surfaces has been investigated with fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS). Based on a two-dimensional (2D) multicomponent diffusion model, key parameters such a ...

2009

Calcium dynamics and vasomotion in arteries subject to isometric, isobaric, and isotonic conditions

Jean-Jacques Meister, Roger Sauser, Jean-Louis Bény, Michèle Koenigsberger, Dominique Seppey

In vitro, different techniques are used to study the smooth muscle cells' calcium dynamics and contraction/relaxation mechanisms on arteries. Most experimental studies use either an isometric or an isobaric setup. However, in vivo, a blood vessel is neithe ...

2008

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