Medical Applications of Artificial Membranes

Medical applications of membranes: Drug delivery, artificial organs and tissue engineering

Dimitrios F. Stamatialis a,∗, Bernke J. Papenburg a, Miriam Gironés a, Saiful Saiful a, Srivatsa N.M. Bettahalli a, Stephanie Schmitmeier b, Matthias Wessling a a Institute for Biomedical Technology (BMTI), University of Twente, Faculty of Science and Technology, Membrane Technology Group, PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands b Department of Biochemistry of Micronutrients, German Insti...

Engineering Artificial Cell Membranes

Growth and division are essential biological processes of cellular life. A crucial question concerning the origin of cellular life is how primitive cells (protocells) lacking complex biological machinery could grow and divide. To address this question, we first developed an effective method for preparing large monodisperse (uniform-sized) vesicles through a combination of extrusion and large-po...

Making Membranes in Artificial Chemistries

In this paper we review some of the possible ways of making membrane-like structures in artificial chemistries. Such implementations range from simulations with accurate physics and high computational costs to abstract models with very low computational costs. We observe that various properties of natural membranes, such as self-assembly and self-repair, are lacking in some of the systems. Addi...

10 Artificial and Natural Membranes

Artificial neural networks: applications in pain physiology

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are intelligent systems that have successfully been used for prediction in different medical fields. In this study, the capability of ANN in predicting body behavior in pain-producing situations is evaluated. A three-layer back-propagation ANN is designed using MATLAB software. The inputs include the magnitude of stimulation in pain fibers, touch fibers and cen...