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Due to our active lifestyle, knee cartilage is at risk for focal defects. Unfortunately, the native healing properties of the articular cartilage are very limited. New strategies to treat cartilage defects are then developed such as the local delivery of g ...

EPFL2015

A Current View of Functional Biomaterials for Wound Care, Molecular and Cellular Therapies

Francesco Piraino

The intricate process of wound healing involves activation of biological pathways that work in concert to regenerate a tissue microenvironment consisting of cells and external cellular matrix (ECM) with enzymes, cytokines, and growth factors. Distinct stag ...

Hindawi Publishing Corp2015

Growth Factors Engineered for Super-Affinity to the Extracellular Matrix Enhance Tissue Healing

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Mikaël Martino, Witold Waldemar Kilarski, Priscilla Suhasna Maithili Briquez, Esra Güç, Federico Tortelli, Stéphanie Elisabeth Metzger, Jeffrey James Rice

Growth factors (GFs) are critical in tissue repair, but their translation to clinical use has been modest. Physiologically, GF interactions with extracellular matrix (ECM) components facilitate localized and spatially regulated signaling; therefore, we rea ...

Amer Assoc Advancement Science2014

The precise manipulation of growth factor signaling is central to the progress of tissue engineering. Methods for direct time-resolved activation of signaling pathways through controlled receptor dimerization have been reported; however, these suffer from ...

Nature Publishing Group2013

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By binding growth factors (GFs), the ECM tightly regulates their activity. We recently reported that the heparin-binding domain II of fibronectin acts as a promiscuous high-affinity GF-binding domain. Here we hypothesized that fibrin, the provisional ECM d ...

National Academy of Sciences2013

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Tenascin C (TNC) is an extracellular matrix protein that is upregulated during development as well as tissue remodeling. TNC is comprised of multiple independent folding domains, including 15 fibronectin type III-like (TNCIII) domains. The fifth TNCIII dom ...

Public Library of Science2013

Tumor angiogenesis is enforced by autocrine regulation of high-mobility group box 1

Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska

The endothelium plays a pivotal role in the progression of solid tumors and is considered a highly relevant target for therapy. However, it emerges that current clinical angiogenesis inhibitors that act through inhibition of tumor-derived growth factors ar ...

2013

In situ cell manipulation through enzymatic hydrogel photopatterning

Matthias Lütolf, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Mikaël Martino, Katarzyna Mosiewicz, Laura Kolb, Martin Ehrbar

The physicochemical properties of hydrogels can be manipulated in both space and time through the controlled application of a light beam. However, methods for hydrogel photopatterning either fail to maintain the bioactivity of fragile proteins and are thus ...

Nature Publishing Group2013

Engineering the Regenerative Microenvironment with Biomaterials

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Mikaël Martino, Priscilla Suhasna Maithili Briquez, Federico Tortelli, Jeffrey James Rice

Modern synthetic biomaterials are being designed to integrate bioactive ligands within hydrogel scaffolds for cells to respond and assimilate within the matrix. These advanced biomaterials are only beginning to be used to simulate the complex spatio-tempor ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Synergistic Effects of GDNF and VEGF on Lifespan and Disease Progression in a Familial ALS Rat Model

Patrick Aebischer, Michaël Meyer

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease characterized by the progressive loss of motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord. We have recently shown that human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) modified to release glial cell li ...

Nature Publishing Group2013