eCM Meeting Abstracts 2010, Collection 1
Abstracts of the Biomaterials-Africa
2009 meeting, Advancing Biomaterials in Africa, CSIR South Africa
20-22 September 2009
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Plenary
Page 26: U Ripamonti, B van den Heever, LF Renton, PW Richter, L Kotze
Smart biomimetic matrices induce bone formation without the exogenous applications of soluble osteogenic molecular signals
Plenary
Page 38: T Shimizu
Cell sheet engineering for myocardial tissue repair
Plenary
Page 39: S Zhang
Designer Self-assembling Peptide Biological Materials
Page 1: M Jurczyk, K Jurczyk, K Niespodziana, A Miklaszewski
Hybrid Ti-ceramic bionanomaterials for dental engineering
Page 2: J Jakubowicz
Deposition and properties of hydroxyapatite on flat and porous Ti
Page 3: S Potgieter, K Land, L Kotze, R Sparrow
Microfluidic devices for biological applications
Page 4: V Jacobs, A Patanaik, RD Anandjiwala
Electrospun chitosan nanofibre membranes for antimicrobial application: role of electrospinning processing parameters
Page 9: M Ramezani, H Parhiz, A Hatefi
Peptide modified polyethylenimine as vector for gene delivery
Page 11: S Govender, P Swart
A surfactant based approach to multi-functional, biocompatible polymer development
Page 12: DG Reid, MJ Duer, G Jackson
Kidney stone composition by solid state NMR (SSNMR)
Page 15: C Wetzel, N Ozkucur, J Schönfelder, TK Monsees, RHW Funk
Improvement of cell-adhesion in the medical-surface boundary layer
Page 16: WA Germishuizen, L Venter, A Khosa, F Mudau, M Kabadi, A Schiermeier, DA Edwards, PB Fourie
Establishing a platform for spray drying inhalable vaccines in South Africa
Page 17: C Eder, E Falkner, A Slawik, M Mickel, A Tuschel, M Ogon
Rapid assessment of biomaterials: the HET-CAM assay as screening tool for biomedical tissue engineering
Page 21: NL Dlamini, XY Mbianda, Z Szucs, J Zeervaart
Synthesis and characterization of bisphosphonate conjugated carbon nanomaterials as potential treatment of secondary bone cancer
Page 28: D Bezuidenhout, A Oosthuysen, P Human, C Weissenstein, P Zilla
Correlation of crosslink density with calcification of diamine-extended glutaraldehyde-fixed bioprosthetic heart-valve materials
Page 29: CM Elvin, AG Brownlee, SJ Danon, GA Edwards, NE Liyou, JAM Ramshaw, L Sando, T Vuocolo, JA Werkmeister
Photochemically crosslinked proteins as new medical materials
Page 32: M Gonsior, T Borowski, E Czarnowska, M Sanak, R Kustosz, M Ossowski, T Wierzchon
Thrombogenicity of Ti(N,C,O) diffusive coating layers developed on Titanium alloy as the blood contact surface
Page 33: S Rimpelova, N Kasalkova, V Svorcik, T Ruml
Adhesion and growth of fibroblasts on artificial materials for tissue engineering
Page 34: U Ripamonti
Self-inducing geometric cues and bone: formation by autoinduction
Page 36: D Jhurry, A Bhaw-Luximon, V Lochee, B Ancharaz, A Veeren, R Jeetah
Novel self-assembled block copolymers for drug delivery
Page 37: MK Marei, MM Saad, RM El-Backly, MA Alkhodary, RA Bly, DJ Cohen, J Chen, MM Fata, WO Soboyejo, M Nageeb, A Rashad, DK Ahmed, RH Abd El-Aty
Bone engineering around laser grooved/RGD-coated titanium surfaces
Posters
Page 5: MJ Duer, MS Ironside, DG Reid, M Schoppet, CM Shanahan
Glycosaminoglycans and lipids in vascular calcification: new insights into mineralogenesis from NMR spectroscopy
Page 6: K Maduray, AE Karsten
Liposomes as a drug delivery system in photodynamic therapy for colon cancer treatment
Page 7: S Garny, I Gerber, J Jordaan
Biocompatibility of dendrispheres
Page 8: A Dehshahri, RK Oskuee, WT Shier, M Ramezani
Targeted plasmid DNA delivery by galactosylated alkyl-oligoamine derivatives of PEI
Page 10: DG Reid, MT Neary, MJ Mason, T Friščić, MJ Duer, M Cusack
Calcium phosphate mineralization in phosphatic brachiopods, and vertebrates
Page 13: CM Obele O Ogbobe
Synthesis of 1, 3-propanediol from Sorghum
Page 14: A Singh, AE Karsten, RM Smith, G van Niekerk
Determination of the optical properties of rat tissue
Page 18: AE Karsten, A Singh, I Ndhundhuma
Optical coherence tomography as a research tool for biomaterials
Page 19: MS Azimi, ZT Birgani, A Darvish, SS Shafiei, MS Hashjin
Ca/Al layered double hydroxides hydrothermally modified for biomaterials applications
Page 20: IM Ndhundhuma
Application of low level laser on skin cell lines
Page 22: R Jakubová, A Míčková, M Buzgo, M Plencner, E Prosecká, E Filová, E Amler
Simple drug delivery system based on PRP and PCL nanofibres
Page 23: VT Windvoel, MB Mbanjwa, K Land
Contact angle studies on PDMS surfaces fouled by bovine serum albumin
Page 24: AK Mishra, SB Mishra, BB Mamba, RW Krause
Synthesis of silicon carbide nanowires from a hybrid of amorphous biopolymer and sol-gel derived silica
Page 25: JE Smit, A Singh, I Tshoke, AF Grobler, RW Sparrow
Phantom skin absorption coefficients from spectrophotometric and integrating sphere methods: preliminary comparative results
Page 27: LF Renton, RB Parakl, PW Richter, L Kotze, U Ripamonti
Comparison of osteoinduction in biphasic hydroxyapatite implanted in two different animal models
Page 30: LG Molawa, D Brady, J Jordaan
Determining the applicability of the SphereZymes® immobilised protease for the biocatalysis of protein
Page 31: K Mathiba, B Petja, C Simpson, J Jordaan, D Brady
Scaled manufacture of self-immobilised Pseudomonas fluorescens lipase using the SphereZymesTM technology
Page 35: U Ripamonti LF Renton R Parak, L Kotze, PW Richter
Biomimetism, smart biomimetic matrices and the induction of bone formation
Page 40: CM Obele, O Ogbobe
Synthesis of bio-based polyester from sorghum-derived 1,3-propanediol
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