Pathways Related to NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation Induced by Gold Nanorods.

The widespread and increasing use of engineered nanomaterials (ENM) increases the risk of human exposure, generating concern that ENM may provoke adverse health effects. In this respect, their physicochemical characteristics are critical. The immune system may respond to ENM through inflammatory reactions.

Pathway-Dependent Co-Assembly of Elastin-Like Polypeptides.

In natural systems, temperature-induced assembly of biomolecules can lead to the formation of distinct assembly states, created out of the same set of starting compounds, based on the heating trajectory followed. Until now it has been difficult to achieve similar behavior in synthetic polymer mixtures. Here, a novel pathway-dependent assembly based on stimulus-responsive polymers is shown.