Metallic implants are widely used in diverse clinical applications to aid recovery from lesions or replace native hard tissues. However, the lack of integration metallic surfaces with soft tissue interfaces causes occurrence biomaterial-associated infections, which can trigger a complicated inflammatory response and, ultimately, implant failure. Here, multifunctional surface showing nanoscale a...

background: mesenchymal stem cells (mscs) are multipotential cells and their therapeutic potency is under intense investigation. studying the effect of different induction factors on mscs could increase our knowledge about the differentiation potency of these cells. one of the most important sources of these factors in mammalian body is platelet. platelet lysate (pl) contains many growth factor...

background: dendritic cells (dcs) are professional antigen presenting cells (apcs), and there is considerable interest in their application as a cellular adjuvant for cancer immunotherapy.  previous studies indirectly demonstrated that dcs were able to take up tumor lysate (crude soluble tumor antigens) and also cross-present tumor associated antigens (taa) which elicits anti-tumor immune respo...

Phospholipase A(2) type IVA (IVAPLA(2)) is a cytosolic enzyme that on activation selectively releases arachidonic acid (AA) from cell membrane phospholipids. Both AA and lysophospholipid, products of the enzymic reaction, can function as signal transducers in cellular interactions. The enzyme is present in most cells, including polymorphs, eosinophils, and platelets. This study used affinity pu...