Alginate-based dressings have been shown to promote wound healing, leveraging the unique properties of alginate. This work aimed to develop and characterize flexible individual and bilayered films to deliver bacteriophages (phages) and -Poly-l-lysine (-PLL). Films varied in different properties. The moisture content, swelling and solubility increased with higher alginate concentrations. The water vapour permeab...
Background Despite remarkable medical advances in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a subset of patients fails to achieve complete clinical remission, as the Patient Global Assessment (PGA) of disease activity remains above 1, even after the inflammatory process is brought under control. This so-called state of ‘PGA-near-remission’ negatively impacts individuals’ functioning and potentiates inadequate...
Made available in DSpace on 2019-10-06T15:39:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2019-07-01; Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES); Titanium-based materials are widely employed by the biomedical industry in orthopedic and dental implants. However, when placed into the human body, these materials are highly susceptible to degradation processes, such as corrosion, we...
Made available in DSpace on 2018-12-11T17:12:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2017-01-01; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES); Federación Española de Enfermedades Raras; It has been shown that the synthesis of TiO2 nanotubes by anodization provides outstanding properties to Ti surfaces inten...
Made available in DSpace on 2018-12-11T17:17:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2018-04-01; National Science Foundation; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES); Federación Española de Enfermedades Raras; Fundació Catalana de Trasplantament; After insertion into bone, dental implants may be subjec...