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Growth analysis of PEI/DPPG self-assembled films by quartz crystal microbalance 用石英晶体微天平分析PEI/DPPG自组装薄膜的生长
Pub Date : 2012-10-18 DOI: 10.1109/ENBENG.2012.6331368
A. A. Duarte, Maria Raposo
Aiming to create heterostructures with intact liposomes, layer-by-layer (LbL) films of dipalmitoyl phosphatidyl glycerol (DPPG) liposomes alternated with the polyelectrolyte poly(ethyleneimine) (PEI) were characterized in situ using quartz crystal microbalance (QCM). The QCM data analysis allows to infer that DPPG adsorbed amount is dependent of the number of bilayers already adsorbed, increasing from 24 mg/m2 for the first bilayer to a constant value of 103±14 mg/m2 after the 4th bilayer. This dependence was interpreted by the evolution of the roughness with the number of bilayers which increases until a maximum and after that decreases to a constant value. Kinetic curves reveals that the DPPG adsorption is justified by two processes, one which is associated to a adsorption of DPPG liposomes with a small constant time independent of the number of bilayers and another, dependent of the number of bilayers, associated to a structural rearrangement of DPPG liposomes on the surface.
为了制备完整脂质体的异质结构,利用石英晶体微天平(QCM)原位表征了双棕榈酰磷脂酰甘油(DPPG)脂质体与聚电解质聚乙亚胺(PEI)交替的层层(LbL)膜。QCM数据分析可以推断DPPG的吸附量与已吸附的双分子层的数量有关,从第一个双分子层的24 mg/m2增加到第四个双分子层后的103±14 mg/m2。这种依赖关系可以通过粗糙度随双层数的演变来解释,粗糙度随着双层数的增加而增加,直到最大值,然后减小到恒定值。动力学曲线表明,DPPG的吸附有两个过程,一个是与双分子层数无关的小常数时间吸附DPPG脂质体,另一个是与双分子层数有关的表面结构重排吸附DPPG脂质体。
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引用次数: 3
An algorithm for the surgical planning of hepatic resections 肝切除手术计划的一种算法
Pub Date : 2012-10-18 DOI: 10.1109/ENBENG.2012.6331384
F. M. Rodrigues, J. S. Silva, T. Rodrigues
The aim of this work is to determine the optimal location for the hepatic resection. Initially, a hepatic segmentation method based in region growing was implemented from CT images with and without contrast. This algorithm was evaluated comparing its contours with the manual contours drawn by two physicians. The identification of the hepatic vessels is a fundamental step for surgical planning. The developed method is based in two segmentation techniques: region growing and threshold. By successive application of region growths, was computed the distribution of the number of voxels in terms of intensity. From this distribution, the information about the optimal threshold value for vessel segmentation was obtained. Finally, the eight liver segments were located, according Couinaud's classification, by a method that includes knowledge of the anatomy and differential geometry. The results show similarities between the volumes computed by the algorithm and the volumes used as reference.
这项工作的目的是确定肝切除术的最佳位置。首先,对有对比度和无对比度的CT图像进行了基于区域生长的肝脏分割方法。将该算法的轮廓与两位医生绘制的手工轮廓进行了比较。肝血管的识别是手术计划的基本步骤。该方法基于两种分割技术:区域增长和阈值分割。通过连续应用区域增长,计算了体素数在强度方面的分布。从这个分布中,得到了血管分割的最优阈值信息。最后,根据Couinaud的分类,通过一种包括解剖学和微分几何知识的方法,确定了八个肝段的位置。结果表明,该算法计算的体积与参考体积相似。
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引用次数: 5
Alginate-chitosan particulate delivery systems for mucosal immunization against tuberculosis 海藻酸-壳聚糖颗粒递送系统用于结核病粘膜免疫
Pub Date : 2012-10-18 DOI: 10.1109/ENBENG.2012.6331346
L. Caetano, L. Figueiredo, A. Almeida, L. Gonçalves
Although vaccination is still the most cost-effective strategy for tuberculosis control, there is an urgent need for an improved vaccine. Current BCG vaccine lacks efficacy in preventing adult pulmonary tuberculosis, the most prevalent form of the disease. Targeting nasal mucosa, Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection site, will allow a simpler, less prone to risk of infection and more effective immunization against disease. Due to its biodegradable, immunogenic and mucoadhesive properties, chitosan particulate delivery systems can act both as carrier and as adjuvant, improving the elicited immune response. In this study, BCG was encapsulated in alginate and chitosan microparticles, via a mild ionotropic gelation procedure with sodium tripolyphosphate as a counterion. The particulate system developed shows effective modulation of BCG surface physicochemical properties, suitable for mucosal immunization. Intracellular uptake was confirmed by effective transfection of human macrophage cell lines.
尽管疫苗接种仍然是控制结核病最具成本效益的战略,但迫切需要改进疫苗。目前的卡介苗在预防最常见的成人肺结核方面缺乏疗效。针对鼻黏膜,结核分枝杆菌的感染部位,将允许一种更简单、更不易感染风险和更有效的疾病免疫。由于其可生物降解、免疫原性和黏附性,壳聚糖颗粒递送系统可以作为载体和佐剂,提高引起的免疫反应。在这项研究中,卡介苗被包裹在海藻酸盐和壳聚糖微粒中,通过温和的离子化凝胶化过程,以三聚磷酸钠作为反离子。所研制的颗粒系统能有效调节卡介苗的表面理化性质,适用于粘膜免疫。通过转染人巨噬细胞系,证实了细胞内摄取。
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引用次数: 4
Spectroscopy microsystem for the detection of early cancer 光谱微系统用于早期癌症的检测
Pub Date : 2012-10-18 DOI: 10.1109/ENBENG.2012.6331371
D. Ferreira, T. S. Monteiro, G. Minas
The research team is focused on the development of a chip-sized spectroscopy microsystem for the detection of gastrointestinal (GI) early cancerous lesions. The paper will briefly cover the outstanding properties of diffuse reflectance and fluorescence spectroscopy detection and the concept of cointegration of highly selective thin-films optical interference filters on silicon photodiodes, in order to meet the growing clinical demands for highly sensitive and reliable tools for the detection of early cancer in the GI tract. It will be also described some of the developments on-going by the research team.
该研究小组致力于开发一种芯片大小的光谱微系统,用于检测胃肠道(GI)早期癌症病变。本文将简要介绍漫反射和荧光光谱检测的突出特性以及高选择性薄膜光学干涉滤光片在硅光电二极管上的协整概念,以满足临床对高灵敏度和可靠的早期胃肠道癌症检测工具日益增长的需求。还将介绍研究小组正在进行的一些发展。
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引用次数: 3
Protein and DNA nanoparticulate multiantigenic vaccines against H. pylori: In vivo evaluation 蛋白质和DNA纳米粒抗幽门螺杆菌多抗原疫苗:体内评价
Pub Date : 2012-10-18 DOI: 10.1109/ENBENG.2012.6331366
L. Figueiredo, C. Calado, A. Almeida, L. Gonçalves
Immunisation against H. pylori is an attractive option for antibiotic resistance and reinfection situations. Strain genetic heterogeneity, and low immunogenicity of protein antigens and DNA alone are nonetheless obstacles to this approach. We developed multigenic H. pylori DNA-nanoparticle and protein-nanoparticle vaccines based on pathogenic relevance. Six antigens were chosen for the vaccine construction: CagA, VacA, HpaA, UreB, HomB and GroEL. Different combinations of CS/DS and CS/Alg /TPP nanoparticles with DNA and chimeric proteins were produced as vaccine systems. Immune responses were evaluated after i.m. and oral immunisation of BALB/c mice. Oral vaccination successfully stimulated mucosal immunity while i.m. immunisation efficiently elicited a more equilibrated cellular/humoral immune response.
针对幽门螺杆菌的免疫接种是抗生素耐药性和再感染情况的一个有吸引力的选择。尽管如此,菌株的遗传异质性、蛋白抗原和DNA的低免疫原性仍然是这种方法的障碍。基于致病相关性,我们开发了多基因幽门螺杆菌dna纳米颗粒和蛋白质纳米颗粒疫苗。选择CagA、VacA、HpaA、UreB、HomB和GroEL 6种抗原构建疫苗。制备了CS/DS和CS/Alg /TPP纳米颗粒与DNA和嵌合蛋白的不同组合作为疫苗体系。对BALB/c小鼠进行体外免疫和口服免疫后的免疫应答进行评价。口服疫苗成功地刺激了粘膜免疫,而免疫有效地引发了更平衡的细胞/体液免疫反应。
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引用次数: 4
Online control of a mobility assistance Smart Walker 移动辅助智能步行者的在线控制
Pub Date : 2012-10-18 DOI: 10.1109/ENBENG.2012.6331388
M. Martins, Cristina P. Santos, Anselmo Frizera
This work presents the ASBGo Smart Walker, developed at Minho University with the Adaptive System Behavior Group. It includes the conceptual design, implementation and validation of a Smart Walker with a new interface approach integrated. It was addressed the assembly of the ASBGo with the required electronics, as well as the implementation of the interface based on a joystick. This sensor is intended to read the user's movement intentions to command the walker. Thus, preliminary sets of experiments were performed with 10 healthy volunteers walking with the device. This was followed by the signal processing and extensive analysis of the joystick signals, which showed the capability of the joystick to extract navigation commands from the user. Based on this real-time identification of user's commands, an approach to the control architecture of the ASBGo was developed and it is based on a fuzzy logic algorithm that allowed the control of the walker's motors. A set of validation experiments were then performed. In addition, it was addressed the security of the user by adding a set of sensors to detect if the user falls.
这项工作展示了ASBGo智能步行者,由Minho大学与自适应系统行为小组共同开发。它包括概念设计,实现和验证智能步行者与一个新的接口方法集成。它解决了ASBGo与所需电子设备的组装,以及基于操纵杆的接口的实现。该传感器旨在读取用户的运动意图,以命令步行器。因此,我们对10名健康的志愿者进行了初步的实验。接下来是对操纵杆信号的信号处理和广泛分析,这表明操纵杆能够从用户那里提取导航命令。基于对用户指令的实时识别,开发了一种基于模糊逻辑算法的ASBGo控制体系结构,该算法允许对步行器的电机进行控制。然后进行了一组验证实验。此外,它还通过添加一组传感器来检测用户是否摔倒,从而解决了用户的安全性问题。
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引用次数: 20
Modeling and simulation of acoustic propagation for mixing and pumping fluids in lab-on-a-chip devices 芯片实验室设备中混合和泵送流体的声传播建模与仿真
Pub Date : 2012-10-18 DOI: 10.1109/ENBENG.2012.6331359
S. Catarino, João M. Miranda, S. Lanceros‐Méndez, G. Minas
The research team is focused on lab-on-a-chip devices for clinical applications, where acoustic streaming technique is used for promoting the mixing, pumping and chemical reactions of fluids, inside the microfluidic structures. In particular, this paper focuses the modeling and simulation of the acoustic streaming generated by a piezoelectric polymer - the β-PVDF in a microchannel. The simulations are based on finite elements numerical methods and are implemented in COMSOL Multiphysics software. The modeling of acoustic streaming phenomenon includes the study of the piezoelectric effect generated by an electroactive polymer and of the compressible flow Navier-Stokes equations.
该研究团队专注于临床应用的芯片实验室设备,其中声学流技术用于促进微流体结构内部流体的混合,泵送和化学反应。本文重点研究了压电聚合物β-PVDF在微通道中产生的声流的建模和仿真。仿真基于有限元数值方法,并在COMSOL Multiphysics软件中实现。声流现象的建模包括研究电活性聚合物产生的压电效应和可压缩流动的Navier-Stokes方程。
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引用次数: 1
Nature-inspired particles as carriers for multimodal molecular imaging applications 自然启发粒子作为多模态分子成像应用的载体
Pub Date : 2012-10-18 DOI: 10.1109/ENBENG.2012.6331341
Sara Figueiredo, J. N. Moreira, S. Rizzitelli, S. Aime, E. Terreno, C. Geraldes
As Magnetic Resonance is the imaging modality of choice, it is necessary to design highly sensitive systems to overcome the relatively low sensitivity of the technique.
由于磁共振是首选的成像方式,因此有必要设计高灵敏度的系统来克服该技术相对较低的灵敏度。
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引用次数: 0
The importance of Helicobacter pylori's genetic variability for the construction of an efficient vaccine 幽门螺杆菌遗传变异对构建高效疫苗的重要性
Pub Date : 2012-10-18 DOI: 10.1109/ENBENG.2012.6331369
F. Vaz, Ricardo M. Couto, C. Calado
Helicobacter pylori is responsible for several gastric diseases. The main constraints of vaccine trials against this pathogen are mainly due to the bacterium high antigenic variability and to down-regulation of the host immune responses. To counteract these factors we propose a DNA vaccine able to induce a balanced humoural and citotoxic specific immune responses, based on multi-antigens. The selection of the antigens NapA, HpaA, VacA and HomB were conducted based on immunoproteomic data and the protein role on infection and pathogenesis. A fragment of each target-antigen was selected by in silico methods based on the maximization of the gene conservation and antigenicity. The set of these small fragments will be presented as a vaccine based on several conserved epitopes of multi-antigenic targets, and consequently representative of the bacterium antigenic variability.
幽门螺杆菌是几种胃病的罪魁祸首。针对这种病原体的疫苗试验的主要限制是由于细菌的高抗原变异性和宿主免疫反应的下调。为了抵消这些因素,我们提出了一种基于多种抗原的DNA疫苗,能够诱导平衡的体液和毒性特异性免疫反应。根据免疫蛋白组学数据和蛋白在感染及发病机制中的作用选择抗原NapA、HpaA、VacA和HomB。基于基因保守性和抗原性的最大化,通过计算机筛选每个目标抗原的片段。这些小片段集将作为基于多抗原靶点的几个保守表位的疫苗呈现,因此代表了细菌的抗原变异性。
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Development of optical probes for arterial pulse wave assessment 用于动脉脉搏波评估的光学探头的研制
Pub Date : 2012-10-18 DOI: 10.1109/ENBENG.2012.6331385
T. Oliveira, C. Correia
Three optical probes based on different photo-diodes: lateral effect (LEP), planar (PPD) and avalanche (APD) photodiodes, were developed to measure the arterial pressure waveform and access clinically relevant information. The pressure wave propagates through the arterial tree and is measured in the peripheral arteries. The probes were evaluated in dedicated test setups and in vivo, at the carotid. For the PPD and APD probes, an ultrasound system was used as a source of data for comparison. Two different light sources were tested: visible and infrared, which performance was evaluated in a test setup, simulating the fatty deposits seen in the obese. Although the LEP probe lacks of temporal resolution, PPD and APD probes show a good overall performance, measuring waveforms with <;8% error, with higher resolution than the ultrasound system. The probes lit with infrared light show better resolution and definition in the test setup and at in vivo conditions.
基于不同的光电二极管:横向效应(LEP),平面(PPD)和雪崩(APD),开发了三种光学探头测量动脉压波形和获取临床相关信息。压力波通过动脉树传播,并在外周动脉中测量。这些探针在专门的测试装置和体内的颈动脉上进行了评估。对于PPD和APD探头,使用超声系统作为数据来源进行比较。测试了两种不同的光源:可见光和红外线,在测试设置中评估其性能,模拟肥胖人群的脂肪沉积。虽然LEP探头缺乏时间分辨率,但PPD和APD探头整体性能良好,测量波形误差< 8%,分辨率高于超声系统。用红外光点燃的探针在测试装置和体内条件下显示出更好的分辨率和清晰度。
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