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Jellyfish collagen scaffolds for cartilage tissue engineering.
Acta Biomater
February 2014
University Hospital and Medical Faculty, Technische Universitaät Dresden, Centre for Translational Bone, Joint and Soft Tissue Research, Fetscher Str. 74, D-01307 Dresden, Germany.
Article Synopsis
- Researchers created porous scaffolds from jellyfish collagen aiming to enhance cartilage regeneration, analyzing factors like collagen concentration, salinity, and temperature for optimal fibril formation.* -
- The scaffolds exhibited 98.2% open porosity, demonstrated stability during cyclic compression, and showed elastic characteristics, confirmed through microscopy techniques.* -
- Cytotoxicity tests indicated the material is safe for human mesenchymal stem cells, which displayed increased chondrogenic markers and extracellular matrix components when stimulated.*
Pomphorhynchus laevis: the intestinal acanthocephalan as a lead sink for its fish host, chub (Leuciscus cephalus).
Exp Parasitol
October 1999
Zoologisches Institut I Okologie-Parasitologie, Geb. 30.43, Universitaät Karlsruhe, Kaiserstrasse 12, Karlsruhe, 76128, Germany.
Aqueous lead exposure of chub (Leuciscus cephalus) experimentally infected with the parasite Pomphorhynchus laevis resulted in a rapid accumulation of this metal in the intestinal acanthocephalans, reaching concentrations which were significantly greater than in the host muscle, liver, and intestine and approximately 1000 times higher than the exposure con centration. Parasitized chub accumulated significantly less lead in their intestinal wall than their uninfected conspecifics (Mann-Whitney U test, P View Article and Find Full Text PDF