Magnetic soft microrobots for erectile dysfunction therapy
Shuting Wang, Zhenqing Wang, Zongshan Shen, Min Zhang, Dongdong Jin, Ke Zheng, Xuemin Liu, Muyuan Chai, Zhenxing Wang, Ani Chi, Serge Ostrovidov, Hongkai Wu, Dan Shao, Guihua Liu, Kai Wu, Kam W. Leong, Xuetao Shi · 2024
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Description
Shuting Wang and co-authors build a magnetic soft microrobot to deliver healing cells for erectile dysfunction. Their 2024 paper targets a key weakness of cell therapy: injected stem cells often fail to stay or survive in the target tissue. Their robot is an ultrasoft gel sphere threaded with a chain of magnetic particles.
The sphere is softer than most body tissue, so it can change shape inside narrow blood vessels. Chemical groups on it mop up harmful reactive oxygen species. In rat and beagle models, the robot kept more cells alive in place than plain injections. Treated tissue healed faster and function returned. Gene reads pointed to helpful immune cells aiding nerve and vessel regrowth.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Shuting Wang, Zhenqing Wang, Zongshan Shen, Min Zhang, Dongdong Jin, Ke Zheng, Xuemin Liu, Muyuan Chai, Zhenxing Wang, Ani Chi, Serge Ostrovidov, Hongkai Wu, Dan Shao, Guihua Liu, Kai Wu, Kam W. Leong, Xuetao Shi |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 46 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |