Search Results - "del Mercato, Loretta L"

A synergic approach to enhance long-term culture and manipulation of MiaPaCa-2 pancreatic cancer spheroids by Cavo, Marta, Delle Cave, Donatella, D’Amone, Eliana, Gigli, Giuseppe, Lonardo, Enza, del Mercato, Loretta L.

“…Tumour spheroids have the potential to be used as preclinical chemo-sensitivity assays. However, the production of three-dimensional (3D) tumour spheroids…”
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pH-sensing hybrid hydrogels for non-invasive metabolism monitoring in tumor spheroids by Rizzo, Riccardo, Onesto, Valentina, Morello, Giulia, Iuele, Helena, Scalera, Francesca, Forciniti, Stefania, Gigli, Giuseppe, Polini, Alessandro, Gervaso, Francesca, del Mercato, Loretta L.

“…The constant increase in cancer incidence and mortality pushes biomedical research towards the development of in vitro 3D systems able to faithfully reproduce…”
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Probing the pH Microenvironment of Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Cultures on Additive‐Manufactured Scaffolds by Moldero, Ivan Lorenzo, Chandra, Anil, Cavo, Marta, Mota, Carlos, Kapsokalyvas, Dimitrios, Gigli, Giuseppe, Moroni, Lorenzo, Mercato, Loretta L.

“…Despite numerous advances in the field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, monitoring the formation of tissue regeneration and its metabolic…”
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Nanopharmacy: Inorganic nanoscale devices as vectors and active compounds by Rivera Gil, Pilar, Hühn, Dominik, del Mercato, Loretta L., Sasse, Daniel, Parak, Wolfgang J.

“…In this review we would like to aim at pharmaceuticals engineered on the nanoscale, i.e. pharmaceuticals where the nanomaterial plays the pivotal therapeutic…”
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Emerging Technologies for Cancer Research: Towards Personalized Medicine with Microfluidic Platforms and 3D Tumor Models by Turetta, Matteo, Ben, Fabio Del, Brisotto, Giulia, Biscontin, Eva, Bulfoni, Michela, Cesselli, Daniela, Colombatti, Alfonso, Scoles, Giacinto, Gigli, Giuseppe, Del Mercato, Loretta L

“…In the present review, we describe three hot topics in cancer research such as circulating tumor cells, exosomes, and 3D environment models. The first section…”
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Preparation and Investigation of Thermally Annealed Zein–Propolis Electrospun Nanofibers for Biomedical Applications by Hochheim, Sabrina, Sampaio, Naiara M. F. M., da Cruz, Anderson Fraga, del Mercato, Loretta L., D'Amone, Eliana, da Silva, Bruno José Gonçalves, Saul, Cyro Ketzer, Oliveira, Carolina Camargo, Riegel‐Vidotti, Izabel

“…Zein, a corn‐derived protein, has a variety of applications ranging from drug delivery to tissue engineering and wound healing. This work aims to develop a…”
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Catalytic Self-Propulsion of Supramolecular Capsules Powered by Polyoxometalate Cargos by del Mercato, Loretta L., Carraro, Mauro, Zizzari, Alessandra, Bianco, Monica, Miglietta, Ruggero, Arima, Valentina, Viola, Ilenia, Nobile, Concetta, Sorarù, Antonio, Vilona, Debora, Gigli, Giuseppe, Bonchio, Marcella, Rinaldi, Rosaria

“…Multicompartment, spherical microcontainers were engineered through a layer‐by‐layer polyelectrolyte deposition around a fluorescent core while integrating a…”
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Highly Sensitive Membrane-Based Pressure Sensors (MePS) for Real-Time Monitoring of Catalytic Reactions by Zizzari, Alessandra, Bianco, Monica, del Mercato, Loretta L, Sorarù, Antonio, Carraro, Mauro, Pellegrino, Paolo, Perrone, Elisabetta, Monteduro, Anna G, Bonchio, Marcella, Rinaldi, Rosaria, Viola, Ilenia, Arima, Valentina

“…Functional, flexible, and integrated lab-on-chips, based on elastic membranes, are capable of fine response to external stimuli, so to pave the way for many…”
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Magnetic Capsules for NMR Imaging: Effect of Magnetic Nanoparticles Spatial Distribution and Aggregation by Abbasi, Azhar Zahoor, Gutiérrez, Lucía, del Mercato, Loretta L, Herranz, Fernando, Chubykalo-Fesenko, Oksana, Veintemillas-Verdaguer, Sabino, Parak, Wolfgang J, Morales, M Puerto, González, Jesús M, Hernando, Antonio, de la Presa, Patricia

“…Magnetic and NMR relaxivity properties of γ-Fe2O3 nanoparticles embedded into the walls of polyelectrolyte multilayer capsules and freely dispersed in a sodium…”
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Towards the development of human immune-system-on-a-chip platforms by Polini, Alessandro, del Mercato, Loretta L., Barra, Adriano, Zhang, Yu Shrike, Calabi, Franco, Gigli, Giuseppe

“…•Immune system plays a critical role in maintaining homeostasis of the human body.•Development of immune-system-on-a-chip platforms is in its infancy.•Several…”
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A pH-sensor scaffold for mapping spatiotemporal gradients in three-dimensional in vitro tumour models by Rizzo, Riccardo, Onesto, Valentina, Forciniti, Stefania, Chandra, Anil, Prasad, Saumya, Iuele, Helena, Colella, Francesco, Gigli, Giuseppe, del Mercato, Loretta L.

“…The detection of extracellular pH at single cell resolution is challenging and requires advanced sensibility. Sensing pH at high spatial and temporal…”
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Facile One Pot Synthesis of Hybrid Core–Shell Silica-Based Sensors for Live Imaging of Dissolved Oxygen and Hypoxia Mapping in 3D Cell Models by Iuele, Helena, Forciniti, Stefania, Onesto, Valentina, Colella, Francesco, Siciliano, Anna Chiara, Chandra, Anil, Nobile, Concetta, Gigli, Giuseppe, del Mercato, Loretta L.

“…Fluorescence imaging allows for noninvasively visualizing and measuring key physiological parameters like pH and dissolved oxygen. In our work, we created two…”
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Highly Sensitive Fluorescent pH Microsensors Based on the Ratiometric Dye Pyranine Immobilized on Silica Microparticles by Chandra, Anil, Prasad, Saumya, Iuele, Helena, Colella, Francesco, Rizzo, Riccardo, D'Amone, Eliana, Gigli, Giuseppe, Mercato, Loretta L.

“…Pyranine (HPTS) is a remarkably interesting pH‐sensitive dye that has been used for plenty of applications. Its high quantum yield and extremely sensitive…”
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Electrospun nanofibers in cancer research: from engineering of in vitro 3D cancer models to therapy by Cavo, Marta, Serio, Francesca, Kale, Narendra R, D'Amone, Eliana, Gigli, Giuseppe, Del Mercato, Loretta L

“…Electrospinning is historically related to tissue engineering due to its ability to produce nano-/microscale fibrous materials with mechanical and functional…”
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Fully Automated Computational Approach for Precisely Measuring Organelle Acidification with Optical pH Sensors by Chandra, Anil, Prasad, Saumya, Alemanno, Francesco, De Luca, Maria, Rizzo, Riccardo, Romano, Roberta, Gigli, Giuseppe, Bucci, Cecilia, Barra, Adriano, del Mercato, Loretta L

“…pH balance and regulation within organelles are fundamental to cell homeostasis and proliferation. The ability to track pH in cells becomes significantly…”
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Ratiometric Organic Fibers for Localized and Reversible Ion Sensing with Micrometer-Scale Spatial Resolution by del Mercato, Loretta L., Moffa, Maria, Rinaldi, Rosaria, Pisignano, Dario

“…A fundamental issue in biomedical and environmental sciences is the development of sensitive and robust sensors able to probe the analyte of interest, under…”
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Co-loading of doxorubicin and iron oxide nanocubes in polycaprolactone fibers for combining Magneto-Thermal and chemotherapeutic effects on cancer cells by Serio, Francesca, Silvestri, Niccolò, Kumar Avugadda, Sahitya, Nucci, Giulia E.P., Nitti, Simone, Onesto, Valentina, Catalano, Federico, D'Amone, Eliana, Gigli, Giuseppe, del Mercato, Loretta L., Pellegrino, Teresa

“…[Display omitted] Among the strategies to fight cancer, multi-therapeutic approaches are considered as a wise choice to put in place multiple weapons to…”
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Probing Single-Cell Fermentation Fluxes and Exchange Networks via pH-Sensing Hybrid Nanofibers by Onesto, Valentina, Forciniti, Stefania, Alemanno, Francesco, Narayanankutty, Krishnadev, Chandra, Anil, Prasad, Saumya, Azzariti, Amalia, Gigli, Giuseppe, Barra, Adriano, De Martino, Andrea, De Martino, Daniele, Del Mercato, Loretta L

“…The homeostatic control of their environment is an essential task of living cells. It has been hypothesized that, when microenvironmental pH inhomogeneities…”
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Biocompatible multilayer capsules engineered with a graphene oxide derivative: synthesis, characterization and cellular uptake by del Mercato, Loretta L, Guerra, Flora, Lazzari, Gianpiero, Nobile, Concetta, Bucci, Cecilia, Rinaldi, Rosaria

“…Graphene-based capsules have strong potential for a number of applications, including drug/gene delivery, tissue engineering, sensors, catalysis and reactors…”
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Quantifying heterogeneity to drug response in cancer-stroma kinetics by Alemanno, Francesco, Cavo, Marta, Delle Cave, Donatella, Fachechi, Alberto, Rizzo, Riccardo, D'Amone, Eliana, Gigli, Giuseppe, Lonardo, Enza, Barra, Adriano, Del Mercato, Loretta L

“…A crucial challenge in medicine is choosing which drug (or combination) will be the most advantageous for a particular patient. Usually, drug response rates…”
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