A unique methodology of fabricating Si anodes for lithium-ion batteries with porous carbon scaffold structure is reported. Such carbon scaffold Si anodes are fabricated via carbonization of porous Si-PVdF precursors which are directly deposited on the current collector. Unlike the conventional slurry casting method, binder and conductive additives are not used in the preparation of the carbon s...

We prepared a bone scaffold material comprising a PLGA/β-TCP core and a Type I collagen cladding, and recombined it with bone marrow stroma stem cells (BMSCs) to evaluate its potential for use in bone tissue engineering by in vivo and in vitro experiments. PLGA/β-TCP without a cladding was used for comparison. The adherence rate of the BMSCs to the scaffold was determined by cell counting. Cell...

In cartilage tissue engineering from mesenchymal stem cells, it is important to suppress hypertrophy to produce a neocartilage with stable phenotypes of hyaline articular cartilage (AC). The aim of this study was to develop and test the usefulness of functional chondrogenic scaffolds that serve the purpose of hypertrophy suppression. PD98059-impregnated poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) scaf...

Two different methods have been described to investigate whether any specific DNA sequences are intimately associated with the metaphase chromosome scaffold. The chromosome scaffold, prepared by dehistonization of chromosomes with 2 M NaCl, is a nonhistone protein complex to which many looped DNA molecules are attached (Laemmli et al., 1977, Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. 42:351--360). C...

Skin wound healing is an important lifesaving issue for massive lesions. A novel porous scaffold with collagen, hyaluronic acid and gelatin was developed for skin wound repair. The swelling ratio of this developed scaffold was assayed by water absorption capacity and showed a value of over 20 g water/g dried scaffold. The scaffold was then degraded in time- and dose-dependent manners by three e...

objective(s): three-dimensional biomimetic scaffolds have widespread applications in biomedical tissue engineering due to similarity of their nanofibrous architecture to native extracellular matrix. co-culture system has stimulatory effect on chondrogenesis of adult mesenchymal stem cells. this work presents a co-culture strategy using human articular chondrons and adipose-derived stem cells (a...

objective: allogeneic transplantation with umbilical cord blood (ucb) in adult recipients is limited mainly by a low cd34+ cell dose. to overcome this shortcoming, human placenta as a novel source of human mesenchymal progenitor cell (mpc)- unrestricted somatic stem cells (ussc)- was incorporated in an attempt to expand cd34+ cells from ucb. to provide a similar environment in vitro, we coated ...

in this study, based on a biomimetic approach, novel 3d biodegradable porous hybrid scaffolds consisting of chitosan, gelatin, and tricalcium phosphate were developed for bone and cartilage tissue engineering. macroporous chitosan/ gelatin/β-tcp scaffolds were prepared through the process of freeze-gelation/solid-liquid phase separation. the results showed that the prepared scaffolds are highly...

introduction: failure of human body tissue and organs is believed to be one of the most important health problems all over the world. the great challenge for tissue engineers is to optimize suitable systems to separate, proliferate and differentiate the cells so that they can set out to create tissue by a harmonic 3-d growth. therefore, the tissue engineers must provide an environment like the ...

PURPOSE This study describes the typical case of problem-based learning (PBL) application at the Faculty of Medicine of the Université de Montréal and its analysis from the perspective of situated cognition. METHOD I used a typical case study to determine the general model of PBL application and performed my analysis by a global processing of information, against to the conceptual model of si...