A bilayer swellable drug-eluting ureteric stent : localized drug delivery to treat urothelial diseases by Lim, Wei Shan, Chen, Kenneth, Chong, Tsung Wen, Xiong, Gordon Minru, Birch, William R., Pan, Jisheng, Lee, Bae Hoon, Er, Pei Shan, Salvekar, Abhijit Vijay, Venkatraman, Subbu S., Huang, Yingying

“…On deployment, the device swells to co-apt with the ureteric wall and ensure drug availability to these tissues. …”
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Layer-by-layer assembled micro and nano carriers for drug delivery applications by Mutukumaraswamy Shaillender

“…In nano- or microparticulate drug delivery, both control of the drug release and interaction of the particles with the cellular environment are critical attributes. …”
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A bilayer swellable drug-eluting stent for the treatment of fibrosis-induced ureteral stricture recurrence by Lim, Wei Shan

“…The first layer is needed for sustained release of drug while the second layer is required for close contact with urothelial wall. …”
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Characterization and evaluation of bilayer coating for enhanced localization and sustained drug delivery for fibrosis-induced ureteral stricture by Chin, Jia Wen

“…The usage of a bilayer coating, consisting of a hydrogel layer and a drug-loaded polymer layer, allows for direct contact with the ureter walls upon swelling and drug delivery through the urothelium. …”
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Cationic glycosylated block co-β-peptide acts on the cell wall of Gram-positive bacteria as anti-biofilm agents by Zhang, Kaixi, Raju, Cheerlavancha, Zhong, Wenbin, Pethe, Kevin, Gründling, Angelika, Chan-Park, Mary B.

“…In addition to the emergence of resistance to last resort drugs, bacteria escape antibiotics killing by forming complex biofilms. …”
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Increasing antibiotic activity by rapid bioorthogonal conjugation of drug to resistant bacteria using an upconverted light-activated photocatalyst by Du, Quanchao, Wu, Xiangyang, Bi, Wuguo, Xing, Bengang, Yeow, Edwin Kok Lee

“…We demonstrate that the mode of action is due to increased inhibition of peptidoglycan cell wall biosynthesis. The findings in this study demonstrate that on-demand NIR-light activated bioorthogonal conjugation of Van to microbes is a viable alternative treatment in combating drug-resistant bacteria.…”
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Identifying antifungal resistance mechanisms and modes of action using SAturated Transposon Analysis in Yeast (SATAY) by Karadzas, M

“…These screens reveal antifungal drug targets, transporters responsible for drug uptake or efflux, as well as metabolic, signalling and trafficking pathways affecting antifungal susceptibility. …”

Utilizing food waste and thermoplastic starch (TPS) in 3D printed PLA formulations for sustainable and customizable controlled delivery systems by Wang, Liwen

“…With the addition of TPS, the drug release profile can be adjusted from 8 – 120 hours using different TPS ratios and different printed wall thicknesses. …”
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Methods for the Study of Galactofuranose in Mycobacteria by Taylor, Katherine I.

“…Second, we leveraged the rapidly expanding set of biosynthetic probes of the mycobacterial cell wall to rapidly characterize intracellular distances between distinct layers of the cell wall in Mycobacterium tuberculosis model organisms Corynebacterium glutamicum and Mycobacterium smegmatis using fluorescence resonance energy transfer. …”
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Construction and characterization of a Lactococcus lactis in-trans surface display system harboring murine glycosylated tyrosinase related protein-2 by Kalyanasundram, Jeevanathan

“…The Generally Regarded as Safe (GRAS) status of LAB such as Lactococcus lactis coupled with non-recombinant strategy of in-trans surface display system, provide a safe platform for therapeutic drug and vaccine development. However, therapeutic proteins fused with cell-wall anchoring motif production are predominantly limited to prokaryotic expression system. …”
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Thermal effects on particle deposition in microchannels by Yan, Zhibin

“…The interaction potential curves from the numerical model suggest that the particles could experience larger resistance arising from the increased thermophoretic force in the presence of the temperature gradient, at large particle-wall distance fewer particles are transported from the bulk solution to the near-wall region. …”
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Inorganic nanoparticles–driven self–assembly of natural small molecules in water for constructing multifunctional nanocapsules against plant diseases by Liu, Li-Wei, Ding, Zheng-Hao, Ren, Gang-Gang, Wang, Guang-Di, Pan, Xin, Wei, Guo-Hai, Zhou, Xiang, Wu, Zhi-Bing, Jin, Zhi-Chao, Chi, Robin Yonggui, Yang, Song

“…The nanocapsules effectively kill plant–pathogenic bacteria via tight binding to the bacterial surface, inducing reactive oxygen species accumulation and disrupting bacterial cell walls. ZnO@Cur@PDA display strong activities against rice bacterial blight with protective activity of 64.0 % and curative activity of 62.2%, which is much better than commercial drugs bismerthiazol (protective activity of 33.0 % and curative activity of 38.4%) and zinc thiazole(protective activity of 38.6 % and curative activity of 31.8%). …”
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Investigation of phenylpropanoid sucrose esters as antidiabetic compounds by Wong, Kathy Pooi Wen

“…Since hybrid 77 is a systemic drug, dosing of the compound would have to account for both the rate at which it is transported across the gut wall and its toxicity. …”
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Combatting pathogenic bacteria with synthetic immunotherapeutics from chitosan: antibody recruiting at engineered bacterial surface with peptidoglycan analogs by Xu, Yuan, Song, Shihao, Duan, Hongwei, Deng, Yinyue, Liu, Xue-Wei

“…The emergence of microbial drug resistance, coupled with the paucity of new antibiotics poses an impending threat to public health. …”
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