Construction, application and biosafety of silver nanocrystalline chitosan wound dressing.
- Shuangyun Lu, Wenjuan Gao, H. Gu
- Materials ScienceBurns
- 1 August 2008
Rapid adhesion and proliferation of keratinocytes on the gold colloid/chitosan film scaffold
- Yi Zhang, Hong He, Wenjuan Gao, Shuangyun Lu, Yang Liu, H. Gu
- Biology, Materials Science
- 30 April 2009
Functional enhancement of chitosan and nanoparticles in cell culture, tissue engineering, and pharmaceutical applications
- Wenjuan Gao, J. Lai, S. Leung
- Biology, EngineeringFront. Physio.
- 21 August 2012
The aim is to update the current status of how nanoparticles can be utilized to modify the properties of chitosan to advance the art of tissue engineering by using cell cultures.
Co-Culturing Dorsal Root Ganglion Neurons with Schwann Cells Protects Them against the Cytotoxic Effects of Silver Nanoparticles
- Wenjuan Gao, S. Leung, A. Bhushan, J. Lai
- Biology
- 2015
The results provide support for the hypothesis that co-culturing DRG neurons with Schwann cells imparts protection on them against cytotoxicity induced by silver nanoparticles and may be relevant to toxicological studies prior to clinical trials of drugs formulated with agents containingsilver nanoparticles.
Effect of Chitosan and Nanoparticles on Cancer Cells Treated with Therapeutic Drugs : Comparison of Cell Survival *
- S. Leung, Wenjuan Gao, T. Park, J. Lai
- Biology
- 2013
It is suggested that chitosan and nanoparticles may have chemotherapeutic potential in the design of new treatments for glioblastoma and pancreatic cancer.
Co-Culturing Rat Dorsal Root Ganglion Neurons With Rat Schwann Cells Protects Them Against the Cytotoxic Effects of Silver and Gold Nanoparticles
- Wenjuan Gao, J. Lai, S. Leung
- BiologyInternational journal of toxicology
- 28 October 2022
It is suggested that co-culturing DRG neurons with Schwann cells imparted some protection on them against neurotoxicity induced by silver or gold nanoparticles, and altering the expression of neurofilament-L, synapsin I, and GFAP could account for the phenomenon of protection in co- Cultures.