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Altering Microbiomes with Hydroxyapatite Nanoparticles: A Metagenomic Analysis by Uskoković, Vuk, Wu, Victoria M

“…Hydroxyapatite (HAp), the most abundant biological material among mammals, has been recently demonstrated to possess moderate antibacterial properties…”
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Calcium Phosphate as a Key Material for Socially Responsible Tissue Engineering by Uskoković, Vuk, Wu, Victoria M

“…Socially responsible technologies are designed while taking into consideration the socioeconomic, geopolitical and environmental limitations of regions in…”
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When Nothing Turns Itself Inside out and Becomes Something: Coating Poly(Lactic-Co-Glycolic Acid) Spheres with Hydroxyapatite Nanoparticles vs. the Other Way Around by Uskoković, Vuk, Wu, Victoria M.

“…To stabilize drugs physisorbed on the surface of hydroxyapatite (HAp) nanoparticles and prevent burst release, these nanoparticles are commonly coated with…”
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Colloids or powders: Which nanoparticle formulations do cells like more? by Uskoković, Vuk, Huynh, Eric, Tang, Sean, Jovanović, Sonja, Wu, Victoria M.

“…•Biological and magnetic response of nanoparticles as colloids and powders is compared.•Better uptake of colloids translated to higher cancer cell targeting…”
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Small molecule inhibitors of Smoothened ciliary localization and ciliogenesis by Wu, Victoria M., Chen, Steven C., Arkin, Michelle R., Reiter, Jeremy F.

“…Vertebrate Hedgehog (Hh) signals involved in development and some forms of cancer, such as basal cell carcinoma, are transduced by the primary cilium, a…”
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Bone Mineral Crystallinity Governs the Orchestration of Ossification and Resorption during Bone Remodeling by Uskoković, Vuk, Janković-Častvan, Ivona, Wu, Victoria M

“…The circularly causal orchestration of bone production and destruction is a part of the standard model of bone remodeling, but the crystallinity of the bone…”
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Sinuous Is a Drosophila Claudin Required for Septate Junction Organization and Epithelial Tube Size Control by Wu, Victoria M., Schulte, Joost, Hirschi, Alexander, Tepass, Ulrich, Beitel, Greg J.

“…Epithelial tubes of the correct size and shape are vital for the function of the lungs, kidneys, and vascular system, yet little is known about epithelial tube…”
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Brain and bone cancer targeting by a ferrofluid composed of superparamagnetic iron-oxide/silica/carbon nanoparticles (earthicles) by Wu, Victoria M., Huynh, Eric, Tang, Sean, Uskoković, Vuk

“…[Display omitted] Despite the advances in molecularly targeted therapies, delivery across the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and the targeting of brain tumors…”
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Calcium Phosphate Nanoparticles as Intrinsic Inorganic Antimicrobials: The Antibacterial Effect by Wu, Victoria M, Tang, Sean, Uskoković, Vuk

“…Cheap and simple to make, calcium phosphate (CP), thanks to its unusual functional pleiotropy, belongs to the new wave of abundant and naturally accessible…”
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Drosophila Varicose, a member of a new subgroup of basolateral MAGUKs, is required for septate junctions and tracheal morphogenesis by Wu, Victoria M, Yu, Marcus H, Paik, Raehum, Banerjee, Swati, Liang, Zhiguo, Paul, Sarah M, Bhat, Manzoor A, Beitel, Greg J

“…Epithelial tubes are the functional units of many organs, but little is known about how tube sizes are established. Using the Drosophila tracheal system as a…”
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Is there a relationship between solubility and resorbability of different calcium phosphate phases in vitro? by Wu, Victoria M., Uskoković, Vuk

“…Does chemistry govern biology or it is the other way around - that is a broad connotation of the question that this study attempted to answer. Comparison was…”
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Toward chronopharmaceutical drug delivery patches and biomaterial coatings for the facilitation of wound healing by Uskoković, Vuk, Velie, Pooja Neogi, Wu, Victoria M

“…Implantation of a biomaterial entails a form of injury where the integration of the implant into the host tissue greatly depends on the proper healing of the…”
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A junctional problem of apical proportions: epithelial tube-size control by septate junctions in the Drosophila tracheal system by Wu, Victoria M, Beitel, Greg J

“…The size of epithelial tubes is critical for the function of organs such as the lung, kidney and vascular system. However, the molecular mechanisms regulating…”
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Bisphosphonate-Functionalized Hydroxyapatite Nanoparticles for the Delivery of the Bromodomain Inhibitor JQ1 in the Treatment of Osteosarcoma by Wu, Victoria M, Mickens, Jarrett, Uskoković, Vuk

“…Osteosarcoma (OS) is one of the most common neoplasia among children, and its survival statistics have been stagnating since the combinatorial anticancer…”
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On Grounds of the Memory Effect in Amorphous and Crystalline Apatite: Kinetics of Crystallization and Biological Response by Uskoković, Vuk, Tang, Sean, Wu, Victoria M

“…Memory effects, despite being intrinsic to biological systems, are rarely potentiated in biomaterials. By exploring the transition between amorphous calcium…”
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Gene delivery using calcium phosphate nanoparticles: Optimization of the transfection process and the effects of citrate and poly(l-lysine) as additives by Khan, Mohammed A., Wu, Victoria M., Ghosh, Shreya, Uskoković, Vuk

“…[Display omitted] Despite the long history of nanoparticulate calcium phosphate (CaP) as a non-viral transfection agent, there has been limited success in…”
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Targeted magnetic separation of biomolecules and cells using earthicle-based ferrofluids by Uskoković, Vuk, Tang, Sean, Wu, Victoria M

“…Targeting specific molecular or cell populations within single tissues or multicomponent in vitro systems is a most sought goal in biomedicine. Here we report…”
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Hydroxyapatite as a Vehicle for the Selective Effect of Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles against Human Glioblastoma Cells by Pernal, Sebastian, Wu, Victoria M., Uskoković, Vuk

“…Despite the early promises of magnetic hyperthermia (MH) as a method for treating cancer, it has been stagnating in the past decade. Some of the reasons for…”
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The Bone Building Blues: Self-hardening copper-doped calcium phosphate cement and its in vitro assessment against mammalian cells and bacteria by Rau, Julietta V., Wu, Victoria M., Graziani, Valerio, Fadeeva, Inna V., Fomin, Alexander S., Fosca, Marco, Uskoković, Vuk

“…A blue calcium phosphate cement with optimal self-hardening properties was synthesized by doping whitlockite (β-TCP) with copper ions. The mechanism and the…”
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Magnetic calcium phosphates nanocomposites for the intracellular hyperthermia of cancers of bone and brain by Adamiano, Alessio, Wu, Victoria M, Carella, Francesca, Lamura, Gianrico, Canepa, Fabio, Tampieri, Anna, Iafisco, Michele, Uskoković, Vuk

“…Magnetic hyperthermia is limited by the low selective susceptibility of neoplastic cells interspersed within healthy tissues, which we aim to improve on. Two…”
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