Background: Spinal cord injury results in permanent neurological impairment and disability due to the absence of spontaneous regeneration. NG101, a recombinant human antibody, neutralises the neurite growth-inhibiting protein Nogo-A, promoting neural repair and motor recovery in animal models of spinal cord injury. We aimed to evaluate the efficacy of intrathecal NG101 on recovery in patients with acute cervical traumatic spinal cord injury.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) involves myocardial remodeling, characterized by significant fibrosis and extracellular matrix expansion. These changes impair heart function, increasing the risk of heart failure and sudden cardiac death. This study investigates the prognostic value of circulating fibrosis biomarkers as a less invasive method in DCM patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCongenital anomalies of the upper limb are in Denmark estimated to have an incidence of around 20 in 10,000 live births. This covers a wide array of conditions summarised in this review. At the time of referral, the patient is thoroughly examined, and a treatment plan is discussed with the family.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDespite tremendous progress in research on self-assembled nanotechnological building blocks, such as macromolecules, nanowires and two-dimensional materials, synthetic self-assembly methods that bridge the nanoscopic to macroscopic dimensions remain unscalable and inferior to biological self-assembly. By contrast, planar semiconductor technology has had an immense technological impact, owing to its inherent scalability, yet it seems unable to reach the atomic dimensions enabled by self-assembly. Here, we use surface forces, including Casimir-van der Waals interactions, to deterministically self-assemble and self-align suspended silicon nanostructures with void features well below the length scales possible with conventional lithography and etching, despite using only conventional lithography and etching.
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