Outputs (11)

Online Monitoring Of Mechanical Properties Of 3D Tissue Engineered Constructs For Quality Assessment (2016)
Conference Proceeding
El Haj, A. J., Reinwald, Y., Baganinchi, P., Gamal, W., & Yang, Y. (2016). Online Monitoring Of Mechanical Properties Of 3D Tissue Engineered Constructs For Quality Assessment.

Introduction: Monitoring the maturation of engineered tissues prior to implantation into the patient is important for defining quality and manufacturing criteria. Key properties include scaffold integrity and mechanical properties. Novel non-invasive... Read More about Online Monitoring Of Mechanical Properties Of 3D Tissue Engineered Constructs For Quality Assessment.

Biocompatibility of biodegradable medical polymers (2016)
Book Chapter
Ozdil, D., Wimpenny, I., Aydin, H., & Yang, Y. (2017). Biocompatibility of biodegradable medical polymers. . Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-08-100372-5.00013-1

Biomaterials have various applications in the medical field; whilst biodegradable biomaterials play an important role in regenerative medicine, tissue engineering and drug delivery. In addition to conversional biocompatibility, biodegradable material... Read More about Biocompatibility of biodegradable medical polymers.

Defining a turnover index for the correlation of biomaterial degradation and cell based extracellular matrix synthesis using fluorescent tagging techniques (2016)
Journal Article
Bardsley, K., Wimpenny, I., Wechsler, R., Shachaf, Y., Yang, Y., & El Haj, A. J. (2016). Defining a turnover index for the correlation of biomaterial degradation and cell based extracellular matrix synthesis using fluorescent tagging techniques. Acta biomaterialia, 45, 133-142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2016.09.002

Non-destructive protocols which can define a biomaterial’s degradation and its associated ability to support proliferation and/or promote extracellular matrix deposition will be an essential in vitro tool. In this study we investigate fluorescently t... Read More about Defining a turnover index for the correlation of biomaterial degradation and cell based extracellular matrix synthesis using fluorescent tagging techniques.

Comparability: manufacturing, characterization and controls, report of a UK Regenerative Medicine Platform Pluripotent Stem Cell Platform Workshop, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 14-15 September 2015. (2016)
Journal Article
Yang, Y. (2016). Comparability: manufacturing, characterization and controls, report of a UK Regenerative Medicine Platform Pluripotent Stem Cell Platform Workshop, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 14-15 September 2015. Regenerative Medicine, 483 - 492. https://doi.org/10.2217/rme-2016-0053

This paper summarizes the proceedings of a workshop held at Trinity Hall, Cambridge to discuss comparability and includes additional information and references to related information added subsequently to the workshop. Comparability is the need to de... Read More about Comparability: manufacturing, characterization and controls, report of a UK Regenerative Medicine Platform Pluripotent Stem Cell Platform Workshop, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 14-15 September 2015..

A Real-Time Monitoring System to Assess the Platelet Aggregatory Capacity of Components of a Tissue-Engineered Blood Vessel Wall. (2016)
Journal Article
Yang, Y., Musa, F., & Harper, A. (2016). A Real-Time Monitoring System to Assess the Platelet Aggregatory Capacity of Components of a Tissue-Engineered Blood Vessel Wall. Tissue Engineering Part C: Methods, 691 - 699. https://doi.org/10.1089/ten.tec.2015.0582

Native blood vessels contain both an antiaggregatory intimal layer, which prevents platelet activation in the intact vessel, and a proaggregatory medial layer, which stimulates platelet aggregation upon vascular damage. Yet, current techniques for as... Read More about A Real-Time Monitoring System to Assess the Platelet Aggregatory Capacity of Components of a Tissue-Engineered Blood Vessel Wall..

A comparative study of skin cell activities in collagen and fibrin constructs. (2016)
Journal Article
Yang, Y. (2016). A comparative study of skin cell activities in collagen and fibrin constructs. Medical Engineering and Physics, 854 -861. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medengphy.2016.05.017

Collagen and fibrin are widely used in tissue engineering due to their excellent biocompatibility and bioactivities that support in vivo tissue formation. These two hydrogels naturally present in different wound healing stages with different regulato... Read More about A comparative study of skin cell activities in collagen and fibrin constructs..

A Real-Time Monitoring System to Assess the Platelet Aggregatory Capacity of Components of a Tissue-Engineered Blood Vessel Wall. (2016)
Journal Article
Idris Musa, F., Harper, A. G., & Yang, Y. (2016). A Real-Time Monitoring System to Assess the Platelet Aggregatory Capacity of Components of a Tissue-Engineered Blood Vessel Wall. Tissue Engineering Part C: Methods, 22(7), https://doi.org/10.1089/ten.TEC.2015.0582

Accelerating and increasing nano-scaled pore formation on electrospun poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) fibers. (2016)
Journal Article
Yang, Y. (2016). Accelerating and increasing nano-scaled pore formation on electrospun poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) fibers. Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymer Edition, 1155 - 1169. https://doi.org/10.1080/09205063.2016.1184122

Porous fibers are advantageous for filtration systems, drug delivery systems, and in the field of tissue engineering, in comparison to their non-porous counterparts. In this study, we developed a facile technique including two steps to generate poly(... Read More about Accelerating and increasing nano-scaled pore formation on electrospun poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) fibers..

Correction: Optofluidic lens with low spherical and low field curvature aberrations (2016)
Journal Article
Zhao, H. T., Yang, Y., Chin, L. K., Chen, H. F., Zhu, W. M., Zhang, J. B., …Liu, A. Q. (in press). Correction: Optofluidic lens with low spherical and low field curvature aberrations. Lab on a Chip, 16(11), 2135-2135. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6lc90052f

Correction for ‘Optofluidic lens with low spherical and low field curvature aberrations’ by H. T. Zhao et al., Lab Chip, 2016, 16, 1617–1624.

Funding information given in the Acknowledgements section is incorrect.

Flourescent, online monitoring of PLGA degradation for regenerative medicine applications (2016)
Journal Article
Yang. (2016). Flourescent, online monitoring of PLGA degradation for regenerative medicine applications. RSC advances, 44364 - 44370. https://doi.org/10.1039/C6RA04690H

Degradable polymers such as poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) are frequently chosen for tissue engineering, due to their ease of production, controllable degradation rates and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval. Within tissue engineering... Read More about Flourescent, online monitoring of PLGA degradation for regenerative medicine applications.