Silk Fibroin Improves the Biological Properties of Egg White-Based Bioink for the Bioprinting of Tissue Engineering Materials.

Egg white (EW) is a common nutritious food with excellent heat gelation and biocompatibility, but its application in biomaterials is considerably limited. Silk fibroin (SF) is a protein-based fiber with both excellent mechanical properties and biocompatibility, and its application in biomaterials has attracted much attention. Here, the EW/SF composite scaffold was first synthesized with GMA-modified EW/SF composite bioink (G-EW/SF).

Functional movement screen dataset collected with two Azure Kinect depth sensors.

This paper presents a dataset for vision-based autonomous Functional Movement Screen (FMS) collected from 45 human subjects of different ages (18-59 years old) executing the following movements: deep squat, hurdle step, in-line lunge, shoulder mobility, active straight raise, trunk stability push-up and rotary stability. Specifically, shoulder mobility was performed only once by different subjects, while the other movements were repeated for three episodes each. Each episode was saved as one record and was annotated from 0 to 3 by three FMS experts.

Silk Protein Composite Bioinks and Their 3D Scaffolds and In Vitro Characterization.

This paper describes the use of silk protein, including fibroin and sericin, from an alkaline solution of Ca(OH) for the clean degumming of silk, which is neutralized by sulfuric acid to create calcium salt precipitation. The whole sericin (WS) can not only be recycled, but completely degummed silk fibroin (SF) is also obtained in this process. The inner layers of sericin (ILS) were also prepared from the degummed silk in boiling water by 120 °C water treatment.

Sodium N-lauryl amino acids derived from silk protein can form catanionic aggregates with cytarabine as novel anti-tumor drug delivery systems.

A sodium N-lauryl amino acids (shortly silk sericin surfactant, SSS) is synthesized with lauryl chloride and sericin amino acids recovered from silk industrial waste. The purpose of this study is to explore whether the sericin surfactant can be used as a potential drug delivery carrier. By controlling the proportion of cationic drugs, cytarabine hydrochloride (CH) and anionic SSS, the aggregation behavior, slow release capability and toxicological effects of catanionic aggregates or vesicles, formed through CH and SSS, have been investigated in detail.

Silk sericin has significantly hypoglycaemic effect in type 2 diabetic mice via anti-oxidation and anti-inflammation.

The sericin protein from silk-processing waste added to the normal diet at 0.8% (g%) level was administered orally to type 2 diabetic (T2D) mice to investigate its hypoglycaemic effects and mechanism. The oral protein is in the form of silk sericin hydrolysate, obtained from a boiling treatment of 0.