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Neurotrophic factors

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Periostin Limits Tumor Response to VEGFA Inhibition

Michele De Palma, Ioanna Keklikoglou, Ece Kadioglu, Axel Bellotti

Resistance to antiangiogenic drugs limits their applicability in cancer therapy. Here, we show that revascularization and progression of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNETs) under extended vascular-endothelial growth factor A (VEGFA) blockade are depen ...

Elsevier B.V.2018

Performance of Limestone Calcined Clay Cement (LC3) with various kaolinite contents with respect to chloride transport

Karen Scrivener, François Henri Avet, Hamed Maraghechi

The durability of mortar and paste mixtures with respect to chloride ion ingress was investigated for binary blends of Portland Cement Calcined Clay, and ternary systems of Limestone Calcined Clay Cement (LC3). Five clays from various sources with differen ...

SPRINGER2018

Preferential Enhancement of Sensory and Motor Axon Regeneration by Combining Extracellular Matrix Components with Neurotrophic Factors

Silvestro Micera, Daniel Santos

After peripheral nerve injury, motor and sensory axons are able to regenerate but inaccuracy of target reinnervation leads to poor functional recovery. Extracellular matrix (ECM) components and neurotrophic factors (NTFs) exert their effect on different ne ...

2017

Neurotrophic-mimetic strategy to rescue synaptic plasticity and cognitive functions in a mouse model of Down syndrome

Diego Ghezzi

Down syndrome (DS) or trisomy 21 is the most frequent genetic cause of intellectual disability in children and adults. Although numerous studies have shown that cognitive impairment possibly arises from dysfunction of the hippocampal circuit, there has bee ...

2017

Aerobic exercise and a BDNF-mimetic therapy rescue learning and memory in a mouse model of Down syndrome

Diego Ghezzi

Down syndrome (DS) is caused by the triplication of human chromosome 21 and represents the most frequent genetic cause of intellectual disability. The trisomic Ts65Dn mouse model of DS shows synaptic deficits and reproduces the essential cognitive disabili ...

2017

Controlling and Monitoring Intracellular Delivery of Anticancer Polymer Nanomedicines

Harm-Anton Klok, Claudia Battistella

Polymer nanomedicines are very attractive to improve the delivery of chemotherapeutics. Polymer conjugates and other polymer-based nanocarriers allow to increase plasma half-life and drug bioavailability and can also be guided toward tumors using passive a ...

2017

Challenges to the transition to a circular economy: understanding of the web of constraints to more efficient use of resources

The concept of the circular economy has attracted the attention of policy makers and businesses in recent years. However, changing current patterns of resource use is a complex task. This paper aims to shed some light on the understanding of why resources ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

How many factors are there in vision?

Michael Herzog, Aline Françoise Cretenoud, Gregory Francis, Lukasz Grzeczkowski

Common factors are ubiquitous in cognition, audition, and somato-sensation. Surprisingly, there seems to be no common factor in vision, i.e., visual tasks correlate very weakly with each other. Here, we show that there are likely many very specific factors ...

2017

Focal release of neurotrophic factors by biodegradable microspheres enhance motor and sensory axonal regeneration in vitro and in vivo

Silvestro Micera, Daniel Santos

Neurotrophic factors (NTFs) promote nerve regeneration and neuronal survival after peripheral nerve injury. However, drawbacks related with administration and bioactivity during long periods limit their therapeutic application. In this study, PLGA microsph ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Tunable and cell-responsive 3D poly(ethylene glycol) microenvironments for the development of tissue models

Stéphanie Elisabeth Metzger

The recapitulation of tissue organization and function in vitro is one of the main objectives of tissue engineering. Proper tissue function depends on the spatial assembly and interactions between key components such as cells, growth factors, signaling cue ...

EPFL2016

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