Delivery Systems in Wound Healing and Nanomedicine

Introduction: Delivery systems in nanomedicine contribute to the improvements in wound healing, tissue regeneration, and anticancer pharmacological fields. Although various wound dressings have been used in wound care treatments, there is a great challenge in the wound management of ulcers, trauma, chronic wounds, and severe injury and burns, especially infected wounds

A Design of Focal-plane Compensation of Aviation Imaging Equipment Based on MS5534C

AbstractThis paper proposes an auto-compensation method for defocusing distance caused by temperature and pressure in aviation imaging equipment. As the host computer, the TMS320F2812 is the core controller and the digital pressure sensor MS5534C from Intersema Company is used as slave computer. The controller acquires the output of the temperature and the pressure from the sensor through MCBSP interface. By the change of temperature and pressure which results in defocusing distance, the software is adopted to compensate the defocusing distance and thereby keeps the stabilization of focal plane in aviation imaging equipment. The design proposal and the software flow is shown in the paper, furthermore the new system has simple interface, small size and real-time function. With many flight tests, the defocusing distance after the compensation of temperature and pressure is far less than the half focal depth of the optical system and it is fully satisfied with the requirements of imaging

Nonlinear Instability for a Leslie-Gower Predator-Prey Model with Cross Diffusion

A rigorous mathematical characterization for early-stage spatial and temporal patterns formation in a Leslie-Gower predator-prey model with cross diffusion is investigated. Given any general perturbation near an unstable constant equilibrium, we prove that its nonlinear evolution is dominated by the corresponding linear dynamics along a fixed finite number of the fastest growing modes

Ranolazine recruits muscle microvasculature and enhances insulin action in rats: Ranolazine, microvasculature and insulin action

Ranolazine, an anti-anginal compound, has been shown to significantly improve glycaemic control in large-scale clinical trials, and short-term ranolazine treatment is associated with an improvement in myocardial blood flow. As microvascular perfusion plays critical roles in insulin delivery and action, we aimed to determine if ranolazine could improve muscle microvascular blood flow, thereby increasing muscle insulin delivery and glucose use. Overnight-fasted, anaesthetized Sprague-Dawley rats were used to determine the effects of ranolazine on microvascular recruitment using contrast-enhanced ultrasound, insulin action with euglycaemic hyperinsulinaemic clamp, and muscle insulin uptake using 125I-insulin. Ranolazine's effects on endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) phosphorylation, cAMP generation and endothelial insulin uptake were determined in cultured endothelial cells. Ranolazine-induced myographical changes in tension were determined in isolated distal saphenous artery. Ranolazine at therapeutically effective dose significantly recruited muscle microvasculature by increasing muscle microvascular blood volume (∼2-fold, P < 0.05) and increased insulin-mediated whole body glucose disposal (∼30%, P= 0.02). These were associated with an increased insulin delivery into the muscle (P < 0.04). In cultured endothelial cells, ranolazine increased eNOS phosphorylation and cAMP production without affecting endothelial insulin uptake. In ex vivo studies, ranolazine exerted a potent vasodilatatory effect on phenylephrine pre-constricted arterial rings, which was partially abolished by endothelium denudement. In conclusion, ranolazine treatment vasodilatates pre-capillary arterioles and increases microvascular perfusion, which are partially mediated by endothelium, leading to expanded microvascular endothelial surface area available for nutrient and hormone exchanges and resulting in increased muscle delivery and action of insulin. Whether these actions contribute to improved glycaemic control in patients with insulin resistance warrants further investigation

Performance evaluation of on-chip wavelength conversion based on InP/In1−x_{1-x}Gax_xAsy_yP1−y_{1-y} semiconductor waveguide platforms

We propose and design the high confinement InP/In1-xGaxAsyP1-y semiconductor waveguides and report the results of effective wavelength conversion based on this platform. Efficient confinement and mode field area fluctuation at different wavelength is analyzed to achieve the high nonlinear coefficient. The numerical results show that nearly zero phase-mismatch condition can be satisfied through dispersion tailoring of InP/In1-xGaxAsyP1-y waveguides, and the wavelength conversion ranging over 40 nm with the maximum conversion efficiency -26.3 dB is achieved for fixing pump power 100 mW. Meanwhile, the influences of the doping parameter y and pumping wavelength on the bandwidth and conversion efficiency are also discussed and optimized. It is indicated the excellent optical properties of the InP/In1-xGaxAsyP1-y waveguides and pave the way towards direct integration telecom band devices on stand semiconductor platforms.Comment: 21 page