Publications by authors named "Wenbo Geng"

Diabetic wounds often exhibit a chronic non-healing state due to the combined effects of multiple factors, including hyperglycemia, impaired angiogenesis, immune dysfunction, bacterial infection, and excessive oxidative stress. Despite the availability of various therapeutic strategies, effectively managing the complex and prolonged healing process of diabetic infected wounds remains challenging. In this study, we combined the natural antidiabetic drug lipoic acid (LA) with the RADA16-YIGSR (RY) peptide obtained through solid-phase synthesis, utilizing reversible hydrogen bonds and coordination bonds for binding.

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Senile osteoporosis (SOP), characterized by significant bone loss, poses a substantial threat to elderly skeletal health, with oxidative stress playing a crucial role in its pathogenesis. Although Tripartite Motif 16 (TRIM16) has been identified as a promoter of antioxidant response and osteogenic differentiation, its regulatory role in SOP remains incompletely understood. This study aims to elucidate the underlying mechanism of TRIM16 in mitigating D-galactose (D-gal)-induced senescent osteoblasts.

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As an ideal drug carrier, it should possess high drug loading and encapsulation efficiency and precise drug targeting release. Herein, we utilized a template-guided self-weaving technology of phase-separated silk fibroin (SF) in reverse microemulsion (RME) to fabricate a kind of hyaluronic acid (HA) coated SF nanocage (HA-gNCs) for drug delivery of cancer immunotherapy. Due to the hollow structure, HA-gNCs were capable of simultaneous encapsulation of the anti-inflammatory drug betamethasone phosphate (BetP) and the immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) agent PD-L1 antibody (αPD-L1) efficiently.

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The rheumatoid arthritis (RA) microenvironment is often followed by a vicious circle of high inflammation, endogenous gas levels imbalance, and poor treatment. To break the circle, we develop a dual-gas-mediated injectable hydrogel for modulating the immune microenvironment of RA and simultaneously releasing therapeutic drugs. The hydrogel (DNRS gel) could be broken down on-demand by consuming excessive nitric oxide (NO) and releasing therapeutic hydrogen sulfide (HS), resulting in endogenous gas restoration, inflammation alleviation, and macrophage polarization to M2 type.

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Drug-resistant bacterial infection of cutaneous wounds causes great harm to the human body. These infections are characterized by a microenvironment with recalcitrant bacterial infections, persistent oxidative stress, imbalance of immune regulation, and suboptimal angiogenesis. Treatment strategies available to date are incapable of handling the healing dynamics of infected wounds.

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Macrophages play a central role in immunological responses to metallic species associated with the localized corrosion of metallic implants, and mediating in peri-implant inflammations. Herein, the pathways of localized corrosion-macrophage interactions were systematically investigated on 316L stainless steel (SS) implant metals. Electrochemical monitoring under macrophage-mediated inflammatory conditions showed a decreased pitting corrosion resistance of 316L SSs in the presence of RAW264.

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Developing a drug delivery platform that possesses universal drug loading capacity to meet various requirements of cancer treatment is a challenging yet interesting task. Herein, a self-assembled gelatin/silk fibroin composite (GSC) particle based drug delivery system is developed via microphase separation followed by desolvation process. Thanks to its preassembled microphase stage, this GSC system is suitable for varying types of drugs.

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Localized corrosion has become a concerning issue in orthopedic implants as it is associated with peri-implant adverse tissue reactions and implant failure. Here, the pitting corrosion of 316 L stainless steels (316 L SSs) was initiated by electrochemical polarization to simulate the in vivo localized corrosion of orthopedic implants. The effect of localized corrosion on osteogenic differentiation of bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) was systematically studied.

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The immunogenic cell death (ICD) of tumor cells has aroused great interest in the field of immunotherapy, mainly due to the production of plentiful tumor-associated antigens (TAAs) and damage-associated molecule patterns. However, doxorubicin (DOX)-induced tumor-specific T-cell-mediated immune response is usually very weak because of antigen presentation deficiency and the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (ITME). Herein, the probiotic (Bi) was covalently modified with DOX-loaded CaP/SiO nanoparticles (DNPs@Bi) for tumor therapy.

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To restore the disordered endogenous gas levels is an efficient alternative for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Both insufficient hydrogen sulfide (H S) and excessive nitric oxide (NO) contribute to synovial inflammation. Herein, a new block polymer PEG -b-PNAPA -b-PEG composed of an NO-responsive monomer and a cysteine-triggered H S donor, which can simultaneously scavenge NO and release therapeutic H S for RA treatment, is reported.

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M2 polarization of macrophage is an important immunomodulatory event that attenuates inflammation. To regulate the immune microenvironment in osteoporotic conditions for enhancing bone healing, strontium-doped nano-structure is fabricated on the surface of titanium implant via microarc oxidation and electrochemical deposition technology, followed by the addition of multiplayer coatings embedded with silk fibroin-based wogonin nanoparticles (Ti-MAO/Sr/LBL ) by layer-by-layer self-assembly technique (LBL). It is found that Ti-MAO/Sr/LBL can release wogonin and Sr in a sustainable manner for more than 7 and 21 days.

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Recent advances in Critical Congenital Heart Disease (CCHD) research using Photoplethysmography (PPG) signals have yielded an Internet of Things (IoT) based enhanced screening method that performs CCHD detection comparable to SpO2 screening. The use of PPG signals, however, poses a challenge due to its measurements being prone to artifacts. To comprehensively study the most effective way to remove the artifact segments from PPG waveforms, we performed feature engineering and investigated both Machine Learning (ML) and rule based algorithms to identify the optimal method of artifact detection.

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Ferroptosis is a recently discovered route of regulated cell death that offers the opportunities for the treatment of chemotherapy-resistant tumor indications, but its efficacy can be affected by the glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4) and ferroptosis suppressor protein 1 (FSP1) antioxidant mechanisms, posing significant challenges for its clinical translation. In this study, we report a Cu-tetra(4-carboxyphenyl)porphyrin chloride(Fe(III)) (Cu-TCPP(Fe)) metal organic framework (MOF)-based nanosystem for the efficient incorporation of Au nanoparticles (NPs) and RSL3, which can demonstrate enzyme-like activities to universally suppress the antiferroptotic pathways in tumor cells for amplifying ferroptotic damage. Herein, Cu-TCPP(Fe) MOF nanosheets were integrated with Au NPs nucleation and loaded with RSL3 π-π stacking, which were eventually modified with polyethylene glycol (PEG) and iRGD for tumor-targeted drug delivery.

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