Injectable
scaffolds are of great interests for skin regeneration
because they can fill irregularly shaped defects through minimally
invasive surgical treatments. In this study, an injectable hydrogel
from biopolymers is developed and its application as wound dressings
is examined. Gelatin-based hydrogels were successfully prepared at
body temperature upon blending with low content of gellan, and the
synergetic effect on the gel formation was carefully characterized
through rheological methods. The electrostatic complexation between
gelatin and gellan was confirmed to contribute a continuous hydrogel
network. The obtained blend hydrogel demonstrates remarkable shear-thinning
and self-recovering properties. For antibacterial purpose, tannic
acid was incorporated into the blend hydrogel. In addition, tannic
acid-loaded blend hydrogel was verified to accelerate the wound healing
on the mice model, significantly than the control groups. Thus, this
paper presents a facile approach without chemical modification to
construct injectable gelatin-based hydrogels, which have great potential
as a wound dressing or tissue scaffold at body temperature.
N,N-Dimethyl-beta-alanine was found to be a more powerful phosphine-free ligand than the previously reported ligand, N,N-dimethylglycine, in the Pd-catalyzed Heck reaction for a variety of aryl bromides, aryl iodides, and activated aryl chlorides with a practical turnover number of 10(3). Both kinetic and theoretical studies suggested that N,N-dimethyl-beta-alanine led to faster oxidative addition of an aryl halide to Pd than N,N-dimethylglycine. [reaction: see text]
Chronic pain and anxiety symptoms are frequently encountered clinically, but the neural circuit mechanisms underlying the comorbid anxiety symptoms in pain (CASP) in context of chronic pain remain unclear. Using viral neuronal tracing in mice, we identified a previously unknown pathway whereby glutamatergic neurons from layer 5 of the hindlimb primary somatosensory cortex (S1) (GluS1), a well-known brain region involved in pain processing, project to GABAergic neurons in the caudal dorsolateral striatum (GABAcDLS). In a persistent inflammatory pain model induced by complete Freund's adjuvant injection, enhanced excitation of the GluS1→GABAcDLS pathway was found in mice exhibiting CASP. Reversing this pathway using chemogenetic or optogenetic approaches alleviated CASP. In addition, the optical activation of GluS1 terminals in the cDLS produced anxiety-like behaviors in naive mice. Overall, the current study demonstrates the putative importance of a novel GluS1→GABAcDLS pathway in controlling at least some aspects of CASP.
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