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Conductive polymers in smart wound healing
Jiang, Yanhua; Zhou, Yongjian; Tian, Yu; Nabavi, Noushin; Ashrafizadeh, Milad; Conde, João; Li, Zhe; Guo, LiangPublisher Copyright: © 2025 The Authors; Wound healing, particularly in particularly after surgical operations and especially cardiothoracic surgeries, presents a significant global healthcare burden due to prolonged recovery time, recurrent infections, and limited effectiveness of the conventional therapies. The recent advancements in biomaterials have positioned conductive polymers (CPs) as promising componen...
A tumor microenvironment-responsive Zr-MOF nanosystem for co-delivering siHIF-1...
Liu, Wenhan; Sun, Can; Dai, Yuhang; Wang, Huaiyong; Ashrafizadeh, Milad; Conde, João; Yang, Liyu; He, WeiPublisher Copyright: © 2025 The Authors; In addition to early diagnosis and on-time treatment, the adoption of new therapeutic strategies is of great significance for improving the clinical outcomes of patients with esophageal cancer. Although emerging therapies such as photothermal and photodynamic therapy (PDT) can precisely eliminate cancer cells and are alternative strategies to conventional treatments, hyp...
Folic acid-targeted macrophage membrane-coated carbon quantum dot nanoplatform ...
Yao, Enyang; Li, Yang; Deng, Kai; He, Wei; Ashrafizadeh, Milad; Conde, João; Yang, LiyuFunding Information: L.Y. thanks for the support of Liaoning Province Science and Technology Plan Joint Program (Natural Science Foundation-General Project) (2024-MSLH-559 ). J.C. acknowledges the Fundac\u0327a\u0303o Cie\u0302ncia e Tecnologia, IP national support, through UID/04923 - Comprehensive Health Research Centre. Publisher Copyright: © 2025 The Author(s); Osteosarcoma is the most common primary bone t...
Global age-sex-specific all-cause mortality and life expectancy estimates for 2...
Schumacher, Austin E.; Zheng, Peng; Barber, Ryan M.; A, Bhoomadevi; Aalipour, Mohammad Amin; Aalruz, Hasan; Ababneh, Hazim S.; Abaraogu, Ukachukwu O.Publisher Copyright: © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.; Comprehensive, comparable, and timely estimates of demographic metrics—including life expectancy and age-specific mortality—are essential for evaluating, understanding, and addressing trends in population health. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of timely and all-cau...
Macrophage Cell Membrane-Cloaked Nanoplatforms for Biomedical Applications
Lopes, Joana; Lopes, Daniela; Pereira-Silva, Miguel; Peixoto, Diana; Veiga, Francisco; Hamblin, Michael R.; Conde, João; Corbo, ClaudiaFunding: The authors acknowledge the financial support from the grants SFRH/ BD/148771/2019 (given to M.P.-S.) and 2021.05914.BD (given to D.P.), and PTDC/BTM-MAT/4738/2020 project (given to A.C.S. and J.C. (and also F.V., and M.P.-S.)) from Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT). Open access funding provided by Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia within the CRUI-CARE Agreement; Biomimetic approaches utilize na...