EVALUATION OF TOXICITY, LOCAL BIOCOMPATIBILITY, BIODEGRADATION, AND SYSTEMIC METABOLISM OF CELLULOSE/ALGINATE/STRONTIUM APATITE MEMBRANES IMPLANTED SUBCUTANEOUSLY IN MICE

ABSTRACT Purpose: To evaluate membranes originating from pure or oxidized bacterial cellulose (BC)/alginate/strontium apatite hydrogels regarding toxicity, biocompatibility, biodegradation and metabolism.Methods: The toxicity was measured by incubating the materials with Artemia salina for 24 h, and mortality and the 50% lethal concentration were d

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This paper reviews studies of proposed creative machines applied to a prototypical creative task, i.e., the Alternative Uses Task (AUT).Although one system (OROC) did simulate some aspects of human strategies for the AUT, most recent attempts have not been simulation-oriented, but rather have used Large Language Model (LLM) systems such as GPT-3 wh

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In this mini-review, we summarize the evidences of lamellar twisting in the birefringent banded polymer spherulites demonstrated by various characterization techniques, such as polarized optical microscopy, real-time atomic force microscopy, micro-focus wide angle X-ray diffraction, etc.The real-time observation of lamellar growth under atomic forc