Extrusion-based
additive manufacturing methods, such as direct-write
of carbon fiber-reinforced epoxy inks, have become an attractive route
toward development of structural composites in recent years, because
of emerging techniques such as big area additive manufacturing. The
development of improved materials for these methods has been a major
focus area; however, an understanding of the effects of the printing
process on the structural and dynamic recovery in printed materials
remains largely unexplored. The goal of this work is to capture multiscale
and temporal morphology and dynamics within thermosetting composite
inks to determine the parameters during the printing process that
influence the recovery of the printed material. Herein, we use X-ray
photon correlation spectroscopy in small-angle scattering geometry
to reveal both morphology and recovery dynamics of a nanoparticle
(layered-silicate Cloisite 30B) in a thermoset epoxy resin (EPON 826)
during the printing process in real time. Our results show that the
dynamics of the layered silicate particles during recovery are anisotropic
and slow down to behavior which is characteristic of aging in
colloidal clay suspensions around t
age ≈ 12 s. The dynamics and alignment of the particles during
recovery were tempo-spatially mapped, and the recovery post printing
was shown to be strongly influenced by the deposition onto the build
plate in addition to the extrusion through the print head. Our in
operando results provide insight into the parameters that must be
considered when optimizing materials and methods for precisely tailored
local properties during 3D printing.
Background: The lymphatics form a second circulatory system that drains the extracellular fluid and proteins from the tumor microenvironment, and provides an exclusive environment in which immune cells interact and respond to foreign antigen. Both cancer and inflammation are known to induce lymphangiogenesis. However, little is known about bladder lymphatic vessels and their involvement in cancer formation and progression.
Purpose: To apply diffusion tensor images using 30 noncollinear directions for diffusion-weighted gradient schemes to characterize diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) features associated with C6 glioma-bearing rat brains, and ideally visualize fiber tractography datasets.
Materials and Methods:Fiber tractographies of normal male Fischer 344 rat brains were constructed from DTI datasets acquired with a 30 noncollinear diffusion gradient scheme. Cultured C6 cell were intracranially injected into the cortex of male Fischer 344 rats. The time course of the tumor growth was monitored with DTI and fiber tractography using diffusion-weighting gradients in 30 noncollinear directions.Results: Fiber tractographies through the corpus callosum (CC) were easily visualized with the 30-direction gradient scheme, and the fiber trajectories of the motor cortex and striatum were well represented in normal rats. Fiber tractography indicated that the neuronal fibers of the CC were compressed or disappeared by growing C6 glioma, which affected surrounding brain tissue.
Conclusion:We have demonstrated in this study that fiber tractography with the 30 noncollinear diffusion gradient scheme method can be used to help provide a better understanding regarding the influence of a tumor on the surrounding regions of normal brain tissue in vivo.
Background: Diabetes is associated with a cardiomyopathy that is independent of coronary artery disease or hypertension. In the present study we used in vivo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and echocardiographic techniques to examine and characterize early changes in myocardial function in a mouse model of type 1 diabetes.
The nitrones of α-phenyl-tert-butyl nitrone (PBN) and 4-hydroxyl-PBN (4-OH-PBN) that have anticancer activity in models of liver cancer and glioblastomas, were tested in the ApcMin/+ mouse model. Mice were administered PBN and 4-OH-PBN in drinking water and intestinal tumor size and number assessed after 3-4 months. Throughout the experiment, contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was used to monitor colon tumors. MRI data showed a time-dependent significant increase in total colonic signal intensity in sham-treated mice, but a significant decrease for PBN-treated mice, and slight decrease for 4-OHPBN treated mice probably due to the limited water solubility of 4-OH-PBN. Final pathological and percent survival data agreed with the MRI data. PBN had little effect on oxaliplatin-mediated killing of HCT116 colon cancer cells and caused only a slight decrease in the amount of active fraction caspase 3 in oxaliplatin-treated cells. PBN has significant anti-cancer activity in this model of intestinal neoplasia.
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