Three-dimensional printing is a versatile technique to generate large quantities of a wide variety of shapes and sizes of polymer. The aim of this study is to develop functionalized 3D printed poly(lactic acid) (PLA) scaffolds and use a mussel-inspired surface coating and Xu Duan (XD) immobilization to regulate cell adhesion, proliferation and differentiation of human bone-marrow mesenchymal st...

Solid triclosan/cyclodextrin inclusion complexes (TR/CD-IC) were obtained and then incorporated in poly(lactic acid) (PLA) nanofibers via electrospinning. α-CD, β-CD, and γ-CD were tested for the formation of TR/CD-IC by a coprecipitation method; however, the findings indicated that α-CD could not form an inclusion complex with TR, whereas β-CD and γ-CD successfully formed TR/CD-IC crystals, an...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to investigate the in vivo effect of bioactive composites with poly(lactic acid) (PLA) or polycaprolactone (PCL) as the matrix, reinforced with bioplastic flax fibers, on the surrounding muscle tissue. METHODS Materials of pure PLA and PCL and their composites with flax fibers from genetically modified plants producing poly-3-hydroxybutyrate (PLA-tra...

Methods Recombinant Pla l 1.0101 was heterologously expressed in the E. coli strain Rosetta-gami B pLysS and purified using cation exchange and size exclusion chromatography. Natural Pla l 1 was obtained by pollen extraction and cation exchange chromatography. Physico-chemical properties of the purified proteins were analyzed in gel electrophoresis, mass spectrometry and circular dichroism. Usi...

We report the detailed molecular characterization of two PLA₂s, Lys49 and Asp49 isolated from Bothrops leucurus venom, and examined their effects against Dengue virus (DENV). The Bl-PLA₂s, named BlK-PLA₂ and BlD-PLA₂, are composed of 121 and 122 amino acids determined by automated sequencing of the native proteins and peptides produced by digestion with trypsin. They contain fourteen cysteines ...

Rapid activation of phospholipase A (PLA) by auxin or plant-pathogen interaction suggests a function in signal transduction for this enzyme, but the molecular identification of a cytosolic PLA carrying out this function remains open. We isolated four cDNA sequences from Arabidopsis (ecotype Columbia), AtPLA I, AtPLA IIA, AtPLA IVA, and AtPLA IVC, which are members of the patatin-related PLA gen...

In this work, poly(lactic acid) (PLA) a fully biodegradable thermoplastic polymer matrix was melt blended with three different epoxidized palm oil (EPO). The aim of this research was to enhance the flexibility, mechanical and thermal properties of PLA. The blends were prepared at various EPO contents of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 wt% and characterized. The SEM analysis evidenced successful modification o...

To the Editor: I read with interest the recent article by Lai et al on risk of acute pancreatitis after discharge from hospitalization for pyogenic liver abscess (PLA).1 In this cohort study, the authors found that PLA was associated with an increased risk of acute pancreatitis compared to non-PLA (adjusted hazard ratio 3.00; 95% confidence interval, 2.62–3.43).1 However, the estimate may not b...

Objective: To investigatethe effects on histocompatibility and biodegradability of bioabsorbablepolylacticacid (PLA) gelin rats. Methods: Longitudinal incision of 30 mm was made along the spine, and subcutaneous tissues were separated bluntly to make four subcutaneous pouches, and PLA gel of different molecular weight (5, 10 and 20 kD) was implanted into the pouches. 4, 7, 11 and 14 weeks after...

1 Yang Li, 2 Jianjiang Lu, 3 Jiabao Wang, Lei Bao, Wei Li 1, Institute of Command Automation, PLA University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210007, China, E-mail: [email protected] *2, Institute of Command Automation, PLA University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210007, China, E-mail: [email protected] 3,4,5, Institute of Command Automation, PLA University of Science and Technology, Na...