Non-human primates (NHPs) can serve as a human-like model to study cell therapy using induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (iPSC-CMs). However, whether the efficacy of NHP and human iPSC-CMs is mechanistically similar remains unknown. To …

© 2018 The Author(s). Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are a major burden on the healthcare system: indeed, over two million new cases are diagnosed every year worldwide. Unfortunately, important drawbacks for the treatment of these patients derive from our …

Alleviation of tumor hypoxia has been the premise for improving the effectiveness of radiotherapy, which hinges upon the advanced delivery and rapid release of oxygen within the tumor region. Herein, we propose a " bubble-enhanced oxygen diffusion " …

A nanometer-sized inor-ganic/organic hybrid enhancement agent is constructed for photoacoustic imaging-guided high intensity focused ultrasound …

Noninvasive near‐infrared (NIR) light responsive therapy is a promising cancer treatment modality; however, some inherent drawbacks of conventional phototherapy heavily restrict its application in clinic. Rather than producing heat or reactive oxygen …

The development of activatable nanoplatforms to simultaneously improve diagnostic and therapeutic performances while reducing side effects is highly attractive for precision cancer medicine. Herein, we develop a one-pot, dopamine-mediated …

© 2018 The Author(s). In cardiovascular research, several mouse strains with differing genetic backgrounds are used to investigate mechanisms leading to and sustaining ventricular arrhythmias. The genetic background has been shown to affect the studied …

OBJECTIVE Two were the aims of this study: first, to translate whole-genome expression profiles into computational predictions of functional associations between signaling pathways that regulate aorta homeostasis and the activity of angiotensin II type 1a …

BACKGROUND: Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is a chronic lung disease that affects extremely preterm infants and remains - despite improvements in neonatal intensive care - a major cause of neonatal mortality and morbidity. Cell-therapeutic strategies …

During development, mesodermal progenitors from the first heart field (FHF) form a primitive cardiac tube, to which progenitors from the second heart field (SHF) are added. The contribution of FHF and SHF progenitors to the adult zebrafish heart has not …