Sentences with phrase «using hydrogels»

Certainly, research is supportive that mothers do in fact find significant pain relief when using hydrogels for sore and cracked nipples.

If your nipples are cracked or bleeding, use a hydrogel pad to keep your bra from sticking to your nipple.

ComfortGel Extended - Use Hydrogel pads may provide soothing, cooling relief and protection from nipple pain or trauma related to breastfeeding.

Hydrogel Pads: For breastfeeding mothers with nipple discomfort, ComfortGel Extended - Use Hydrogel pads provides relief from soreness by soothing, cooling, and protecting nipples.

You can use warm, wet compresses as a way to soothe the irritated tissue, or use hydrogel to coat your nipples and keep them from scabbing.

Specifically, I am investigating how the cAMP / PKA signaling pathway affects collagen structure and deposition, using a hydrogel - based, three - dimensional culture system to create a model that is more physiologically relevant than one produced by standard two - dimensional tissue culture methods.

Nikolce Gjorevski, the first author of the study, and his colleagues used the hydrogel to grow stem cells of the gut into a miniature intestine.

«Plants may use a hydrogel - like approach,» Stroock says.

One idea we have is to use a hydrogel like this to make artificial muscles that could automatically open and close radiator systems as temperatures rise and fall.

Not exact matches

In his doctoral research, he investigated clinically translatable treatments for musculoskeletal tissue repair using injectable hydrogels.

Clever techniques include the use of water - in - oil - in - water emulsions and oil - filled hydrogel particles.

The use of hydrogels dressings is a concept stolen from disciplines such as geriatrics, where patients suffer bed wounds and these water - based polymer matrix dressings are applied to maintain moisture, inhibit scab or crust formation, reduce pain, and enhance epithelial migration for wound repair.

Hydrogel Pads: Hydrogel pads are not used for leaking.

The hydrogel most commonly used in diapers is sodium polyacrylate.

The study most often used to argue that hydrogel is dangerous found it was toxic only when injected directly into a rat's vein or body cavity.

Finally, some of the concerns in the media about hydrogels are a case of mistaken identity: Polyacrylate, used in diapers, is sometimes confused with polyacrylamide, a different hydrogel used in horticulture and gardening.

The use of hydrogels is not regulated.

«Injectable hydrogels are promising materials for achieving hemostasis in case of internal injuries and bleeding, as these biomaterials can be introduced into a wound site using minimally invasive approaches,» said Gaharwar.

The study uses a commonly used thickening agent known as kappa - carrageenan, obtained from seaweed, to design injectable hydrogels.

They're used in therapeutics, they're found in hydrogels, and they're used to control drug delivery.

The presented approach uses untethered magnetic micro-robotic coding for precise construction of individual cell - encapsulating hydrogels (such as cell blocks).

To make a wearable device that can cope with the jostling of everyday life, the team used a water - rich, polyacrylamide hydrogel and added lithium chloride to make it conduct electricity.

Mechanical constraints such as soft wire, or glass substrate which chemically binds with the gel, can also be used to manipulate the self - assembly and formation of hydrogels into complex structures.

The team's findings, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences today, suggest new applications in areas such as tissue engineering and soft robotics where hydrogel is commonly used.

A hydrogel containing the bacteria could be used to fabricate cellulose dressings in the exact shape of a body part or organ based on a CT scan, Rühs says.

«Electric eel - inspired device reaches 110 volts: Using ion gradients across hydrogels, researchers developed a «soft power» source that they hope can one day power implantable devices.»

«Modifications of the treatment regimens, additional optimization of the delivery methods via the use of hydrogels, and structural modifications of the compounds via medicinal chemistry could ensure even better results with CDK2 inhibitors in treating hearing loss in humans.»

The principle component of the new panel, hydrogel — a polymer network filled with water — is safe to use in and on the human body, having already found use in applications ranging from drug delivery to creating scaffolds for tissue engineering and wound healing.

Engineers at Rutgers - New Brunswick and the New Jersey Institute of Technology worked with a hydrogel that has been used for decades in devices that generate motion and biomedical applications such as scaffolds for cells to grow on.

The researchers use a solution of hundreds of translucent hydrogel beads in a Plexiglass box to simulate materials like soil, sand or snow.

These micropatterned elastic hydrogels can one day be used as cardiac patches.

Sun is currently conducting collaborative research with hydrogels for applications and efficiency with anticancer drugs screening and delivery, stem cells and wound healing, as well as being used in vaccines for H1N1 influenza and animal diseases, such as the porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus, or PRRS.

The hydrogel was created as a spinoff of a separate project — a protein - based glue that can be used in outer space and other extremely dry environments that Sun developed with Kansas State University's John Tomich, professor of biochemistry.

Dr Wenxin Wang is trying to uncover therapies for diseases such as diabetic ulcers and Epidermolysis Bullosa, which causes chronic skin conditions: «We are currently investigating the use of these new materials for biomedical applications such as drug / gene delivery, cross linkable hydrogel materials and skin adhesives.

Professor Jeong solved such issues using the simple hydrogel microstructures alone.

«Our hydrogel is very flexible, made from a biocompatible polypeptide and can be activated using light.»

«We wouldn't envision using KOD for major trauma, because there are conventional methods like tourniquets or using clay - based materials that are much more effective in that immediate situation,» said Kumar, who often used his own blood to test the hydrogel against commercial hemostats.

This elastic hydrogel is formed by using a light - activated polypeptide.

This hydrogel patent, along with several other patent pending applications, are licensed by the startup company PepGel LLC, which was co-founded by Sun and Huang to make their technology available for research use and medical device applications.

It covers various combinations of short peptides — compounds created from amino acids — that can be used to form hydrogels.

The researchers then came up with a recipe for their 3 - D ink, using a combination of bacteria, hydrogel, and nutrients to sustain the cells and maintain their functionality.

«The fully defined nature of these synthetic bioengineered hydrogels could make them ideal for use in human patients in the event that HIOs are used for therapy in the future,» said Miguel Quirós, a University of Michigan postdoctoral fellow and co-lead author in the study.

The authors used the engineered hydrogels to create a 3D growth environment — known as a matrix — which provides optimal physical and biochemical support for organoid growth.

Because the hydrogels are based on defined synthetic materials, they offer an advantage for potential therapeutic use in the body.

Using a tiny colonoscope, Quirós and Cruz - Acuña delivered the hydrogel, along with the organoids, into wounds that had been made in the intestines of immune - compromised mice.

Beyond the intestinal applications, the researchers are also studying the use of hydrogels to deliver organoids to damaged kidneys and lungs.

Stroock created the same tension in his transpiring system by using a high - tech fabric of cross-linked polymers called a hydrogel.

They may also need to optimize the method for delivering the hydrogel material containing the HIOs to replace the labor - intensive techniques used in the research.

This is a scanning electron microscope image of newly - grown enamel using amelogenin - chitosan hydrogel.

Hydrogels are materials that are commonly used in everyday objects such as contact lenses or diapers, in order to control humidity.