Search Results - "Lutolf, M."
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Synthetic biomaterials as instructive extracellular microenvironments for morphogenesis in tissue engineering
Published in Nature biotechnology (01-01-2005)“…New generations of synthetic biomaterials are being developed at a rapid pace for use as three-dimensional extracellular microenvironments to mimic the…”
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Extracellular matrix requirements for gastrointestinal organoid cultures
Published in Biomaterials (01-09-2021)“…Organoids are a new class of biological model systems that have garnered significant interest in the life sciences. When provided with the proper 3D matrix and…”
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Substrate Elasticity Regulates Skeletal Muscle Stem Cell Self-Renewal in Culture
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (27-08-2010)“…Stem cells that naturally reside in adult tissues, such as muscle stem cells (MuSCs), exhibit robust regenerative capacity in vivo that is rapidly lost in…”
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Tissue geometry drives deterministic organoid patterning
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (07-01-2022)“…Epithelial organoids are stem cell–derived tissues that approximate aspects of real organs, and thus they have potential as powerful tools in basic and…”
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Hydrogel microfluidics for the patterning of pluripotent stem cells
Published in Scientific reports (25-03-2014)“…Biomolecular signaling is of utmost importance in governing many biological processes such as the patterning of the developing embryo where biomolecules…”
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3D niche microarrays for systems-level analyses of cell fate
Published in Nature communications (14-07-2014)“…The behaviour of mammalian cells in a tissue is governed by the three-dimensional (3D) microenvironment and involves a dynamic interplay between biochemical…”
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Hydrogel-based milliwell arrays for standardized and scalable retinal organoid cultures
Published in Scientific reports (24-06-2020)“…The development of improved methods to culture retinal organoids is relevant for the investigation of mechanisms of retinal development under…”
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Synthesis and Physicochemical Characterization of End-Linked Poly(ethylene glycol)-co-peptide Hydrogels Formed by Michael-Type Addition
Published in Biomacromolecules (01-05-2003)“…The synthesis of novel hybrid hydrogels by stepwise copolymerization of multiarm vinyl sulfone-terminated poly(ethylene glycol) macromers and α−ω cysteine…”
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Elucidating the Role of Matrix Stiffness in 3D Cell Migration and Remodeling
Published in Biophysical journal (19-01-2011)“…Reductionist in vitro model systems which mimic specific extracellular matrix functions in a highly controlled manner, termed artificial extracellular matrices…”
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Molecularly Engineered PEG Hydrogels: A Novel Model System for Proteolytically Mediated Cell Migration
Published in Biophysical journal (01-08-2005)“…Model systems mimicking the extracellular matrix (ECM) have greatly helped in quantifying cell migration in three dimensions and elucidated the molecular…”
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Capturing Cell–Cell Interactions via SNAP-tag and CLIP-tag Technology
Published in Bioconjugate chemistry (19-08-2015)“…Juxtacrine or contact-dependent signaling is a major form of cell communication in multicellular organisms. The involved cell–cell and…”
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Synthetic Matrix Metalloproteinase-Sensitive Hydrogels for the Conduction of Tissue Regeneration: Engineering Cell-Invasion Characteristics
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (29-04-2003)“…Synthetic hydrogels have been molecularly engineered to mimic the invasive characteristics of native provisional extracellular matrices: a combination of…”
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Systematic Modulation of Michael-Type Reactivity of Thiols through the Use of Charged Amino Acids
Published in Bioconjugate chemistry (01-11-2001)“…A quantitative structure−reactivity relationship for the Michael-type addition of thiols onto acrylates was determined. Several thiol-containing peptides were…”
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Microfluidic Programming of Compositional Hydrogel Landscapes
Published in Macromolecular rapid communications. (01-08-2017)“…A droplet microfluidics strategy to rapidly synthesize, process, and screen up to hundreds of thousands of compositionally distinct synthetic hydrogels is…”
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Genetic pathways to glioblastoma: A population-based study
Published in Cancer research (Chicago, Ill.) (01-10-2004)“…We conducted a population-based study on glioblastomas in the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland (population, 1.16 million) to determine the frequency of major…”
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Substrate elasticity modulates the responsiveness of mesenchymal stem cells to commitment cues
Published in Integrative biology (Cambridge) (01-10-2015)“…Fate choices of stem cells are regulated in response to a complex array of biochemical and physical signals from their microenvironmental niche. Whereas the…”
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MMP-2 sensitive, VEGF-bearing bioactive hydrogels for promotion of vascular healing
Published in Journal of biomedical materials research. Part A (15-03-2004)“…We sought to develop bioactive hydrogels to facilitate arterial healing, e.g., after balloon angioplasty. Toward this end, we developed a new class of…”
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Microfluidic production of bioactive fibrin micro-beads embedded in crosslinked collagen used as an injectable bulking agent for urinary incontinence treatment
Published in Acta biomaterialia (01-02-2018)“…[Display omitted] Endoscopic injection of bulking agents has been widely used to treat urinary incontinence, often due to urethral sphincter complex…”
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A bioactive injectable bulking material; a potential therapeutic approach for stress urinary incontinence
Published in Biomaterials (01-06-2019)“…Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is a life changing condition, affecting 20 million women worldwide. In this study, we developed a bioactive, injectable…”
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The selective modulation of endothelial cell mobility on RGD peptide containing surfaces by YIGSR peptides
Published in Biomaterials (2005)“…The ability of the biomimetic peptides YIGSR, PHSRN and RGD to selectively affect adhesion and migration of human microvascular endothelial cells (MVEC) and…”
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