Journal: Scientific Reports

Article Title: Modelling and implementation of soft bio-mimetic turtle using echo state network and soft pneumatic actuators

doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-91136-z

Figure Lengend Snippet: FEA results of accumulated deformation images on top of each other to show the effect of applied pressure on variable \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$\theta$$\end{document} θ , SPA60, SPA120, SPA35, and SPA145 work envelope. FEA simulated work envelope for variable \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$\theta$$\end{document} θ SPAs.

Article Snippet: This study is conducted to simulate the behavior of every SPA rotation range in 3D coordinate (X, Y, Z) with respect to different inlet pressure (minimum absolute pressure 0.11 MPa, maximum absolute pressure 0.4 MPa at incremental step of 0.01 MPa) using Ansys Multi-Physics 2019 R2 \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$^{\mathrm{TM}}$$\end{document} TM .

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Journal: Oncotarget

Article Title: Crosstalk between stromal components and tumor cells of TNBC via secreted factors enhances tumor growth and metastasis

doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.19417

Figure Lengend Snippet: ( A ) Cellular viability assays of co-cultured MDA-MB-231 cells on the bottom chambers with fibroblasts and macrophages treated 0.01 to 1 uM of reparixin on the top chamber in the RTCA system (* P < 0.001, n = 3). ( B ) Migration assay of MDA-MB-231 cells treated 0.1 uM of reparixin in CM from fibroblasts or macrophages with TCM of MDA-MB-231 cells using the Oris Cell migration kit. (TCM-F)CM and (TCM- MΦ)CM: conditioned media from fibroblasts or macrophages cultured with TCM (tumor conditioned media) of MDA-MB-231cells. ( C ) Migration assay of MDA-MB-231 cells (top chamber) treated 0.1 uM of reparixin with CM (bottom chamber) from fibroblasts or macrophages cultured with SFM containing with 2% serum or TCM of MDA-MB-231 cells in the RTCA system. The cell index was measured continuously at 48 h. (* P < 0.01, n = 3). ( D ) Tumor growth curves of MDA-MB-231 cells implanted mammary fat pad in athymic mice treated with 15 mg/kg reparixin i.p . daily for five weeks. (Mean ± SEM, ** P < 0.005 and n = 10). ( E ) Athymic nude mice were pretreated with TCM (50 ul) of MDA-MB-231 cells for two weeks before inoculation with MDA-MB-231 cells and treatment of reparixin. After five weeks, the number of mice with thoracic metastasis was counted using the IVIS imager. The red box represents thoracic metastasis observed with the IVIS imager.

Article Snippet: MDA-MB-231- fibroblast or macrophage conditioned media (100 μl) with or without 0.1 uM reparixin (MCE, Monmouth Junction, NJ) and anti-IL-8 antibodies (R&D Systems, 30 μg/ml) was added once the cancer cells had attached.

Techniques: Cell Culture, Migration