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The tissue engineering strategy represents a balanced and dynamic approach that utilizes various tissue cells, bio-scaffolds and bio-agents (such as cells and drugs) to facilitate tissue repair and regeneration. Hydrogel microspheres (HMS), distinguished by their unique micrometer-scale spherical architecture featuring high specific surface area, high porosity, and low invasiveness, coupled with advantageous biochemical properties including biocompatibility, biodegradability, hydrophilicity, and lubricity, are regarded as promising bio-scaffolds in tissue engineering. Notably, smart responsive hydrogel microspheres (SRHMS) can intelligently release bio-agents to actively promote tissue regeneration in response to internal or external stimuli, in a spatiotemporally controlled manner. As a result, SRHMS have attracted escalating attention for their application potential in tissue engineering. This review summarizes recent advancements in SRHMS applications within tissue engineering, emphasizing their fabrication processes, functional characteristics, and therapeutic applications across diverse domains such as bone, cartilage, skin, nerve, and cardiac tissue engineering.
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Biol Proced Online
September 2025
Division of Surface Physics, Department of Physics and Earth System Sciences, University of Leipzig, Linnéstr. 5, 04103, Leipzig, Germany.
Background: Organotypic long-term cultivation of vascularized retina explants is a major challenge for application in drug development, drug screening, diagnostics and future personalized medicine. With this background, an assay and protocol for organotypic culture of vascularized retina explants in vitro with optimum tissue integrity preservation is developed and demonstrated.
Methods: Morphological, histologic and biochemical integrity as well as viability of vascularized retina explants are compared as function of cultivation time for differently structured nanotube scaffolds.
J Mol Histol
September 2025
Department of Urology, Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, Qingdao University, No. 20 East Yuhuangding Road, Yantai, 264000, Shandong, China.
The stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is a difficulty in urology and current sub-urethral sling treatments are associated with inflamation and recurrence. In this study, we developed a novel tissue-engineered sling with myogenic induced adiposederived stem cells (MI-ADSCs) sheets induced by 5-Aza and combined with electrospun scaffolds of silk fibroin and poly(lactide-co-glycolide) (SF/PLGA) for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence. MI-ADSCs increased α-SMA, MyoD and Desmin the mRNA and protein expression.
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September 2025
Aging Biomarker Consortium (ABC), Beijing, China.
The global surge in the population of people 60 years and older, including that in China, challenges healthcare systems with rising age-related diseases. To address this demographic change, the Aging Biomarker Consortium (ABC) has launched the X-Age Project to develop a comprehensive aging evaluation system tailored to the Chinese population. Our goal is to identify robust biomarkers and construct composite aging clocks that capture biological age, defined as an individual's physiological and molecular state, across diverse Chinese cohorts.
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September 2025
State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, 100071, Beijing, China.
Traditional live attenuated vaccines (LAVs) are typically developed through serial passaging or genetic engineering to introduce specific mutations or deletions. While viral RNA secondary or tertiary structures have been well-documented for their multiple functions, including binding with specific host proteins, their potential for LAV design remains largely unexplored. Herein, using Zika virus (ZIKV) as a model, we demonstrate that targeted disruption of the primary sequence or tertiary structure of a specific viral RNA element responsible for Musashi-1 (MSI1) binding leads to a tissue-specific attenuation phenotype in multiple animal models.
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September 2025
Department of Otolaryngology Head And Neck Surgery, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, No. 21, Section 2, Nan-Ya South Road, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
Introduction: Anterior glottic webs are epithelium-covered fibrous tissue formations at the anterior commissure, leading to synechiae between the bilateral vocal folds. They manifest with symptoms ranging from hoarseness to airway obstruction. However, treating anterior glottic webs are challenging due to their high recurrence rates.
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