In this research, a novel method to decrease micro-residual stresses of fibrous composites by adding carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is proposed in detail. The negative coefficient of thermal expansion and the high young’s modulus of CNTs can be utilized to counterbalance the process induced residual stresses in composites. To this end, first, the effects of adding CNTs to the matrix of fibrous composi...

Dynein removes the checkpoint proteins from kinetochores once chromosomes are bioriented. In this issue, Gama et al. (2017. J. Cell Biol. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201610108) and Mosalaganti et al. (2017. J. Cell Biol. https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201611060) reveal the molecular basis for how dynein and its adaptor protein Spindly are recruited to the ROD-Zw10-Zwilch complex in the fibrous cor...

background: candida albicans is one of the most important opportunistic pathogens that suppress immunologic mechanisms of the host. it is speculated that structural and secretory proteins of c. albicans have immunomodulatory effects in cancer. objective: to evaluate the effects of c. albicans structural and secreted proteins on intratumoral cd4/cd8 ratio as well as the survival rate in balb/c t...

purpose: to report the clinical and histopathological features of recurrent atypical fibrous histiocytoma of the corneo-scleral limbus followed by intra-epithelial squamous neoplasia. case report: a 25-year-old female patient presented with a recurrent vascularized gelatinous mass in the left nasal limbus. the preliminary histopathological diagnosis of the previously excised lesion was an amela...

717 ibrous dysplasia is a developmental anomaly that can affect any bone in the body. The skull and facial bones are the affected sites in 10–25% of patients with monostotic fibrous dysplasia and in 50% of patients with polyostotic fibrous dysplasia. Conventional radiographic findings reveal characteristics of fibrous dysplasia. CT findings also show characteristics of fibrous dysplasia and con...

We have identified that the collagen helix has the potential to be disruptive to analyses of intrinsically disordered proteins. The collagen helix is an extended fibrous structure that is both promiscuous and repetitive. Whilst its sequence is predicted to be disordered, this type of protein structure is not typically considered as intrinsic disorder. Here, we show that collagen-encoding protei...

General principles of ECM organization are well known. Organized fibrous polymers, including collagens, elastins, and resilins, are embedded within an amorphous mixture of nonfibrous components as the fundamental theme. The need for inextensibility coupled with great strength mandates the presence of fibrous macromolecules, primarily those that aggregate into near crystalline arrays such as the...

In this work is presented a new category of self-growing, fibrous, natural composite materials with controlled physical properties that can be produced in large quantities and over wide areas, based on mycelium, the main body of fungi. Mycelia from two types of edible, medicinal fungi, Ganoderma lucidum and Pleurotus ostreatus, have been carefully cultivated, being fed by two bio-substrates: ce...