Effective and accurate delivery of drugs to tissue with spinal cord injury (SCI) is the key to rehabilitating neurological deficits. Sustained-release microspheres (MS) have excellent degradability and can aid in the long-term release of drugs. However, the burst release phenomenon can cause unexpected side effects. Herein, we developed and optimized an injectable poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) MS loaded with melatonin(Mel), which were mixed further with Laponite hydrogels (Lap/MS@Mel, a micro-gel compound) in order to reduce the burst release of MS. Thus, these MS were able to achieve stable and prolonged Mel release, as well as synergistic Lap hydrogel in order to repair neural function in SCI by in situ injection. In clinical practice, patients with SCI have complicated conditions and significant inter-individual differences, which means that a single route of administration does not meet actual clinical needs. Thus, the nanospheres are synthesized and subsequently coated with platelet membrane (PM) in order to form PM/MS@Mel (nano-PM compound) for sustained and precision-targeted delivery of Mel intravenously in the SCI. Notably, optimized microsphere delivery systems have improved Mel regulation polarization of spinal microglial/macrophages, which can reduce loss of biomaterials due to macrophage-induced immune response during implantation of spinal cord tissue. These two new delivery systems that are based on MS provide references for the clinical treatment of SCI, according to different requirements.
Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common type of arthritis and the leading cause of disability globally. It tends to occur in middle age or due to an injury or obesity. OA occurs with the onset of symptoms, including joint swelling, joint effusion, and limited movement at a late stage of the disease, which leads to teratogenesis and loss of joint function. During the pathogenesis of this degenerative joint lesion, several local inflammatory responses are activated, resulting in synovial proliferation and pannus formation that facilitates the destruction of the bone and the articular cartilage. The commonly used drugs for the clinical diagnosis and treatment of OA have limitations such as low bioavailability, short half-life, poor targeting, and high systemic toxicity. With the application of nanomaterials and intelligent nanomedicines, novel nanotherapeutic strategies have shown more specific targeting, prolonged half-life, refined bioavailability, and reduced systemic toxicity, compared to the existing medications. In this review, we summarized the recent advancements in new nanotherapeutic strategies for OA and provided suggestions for improving the treatment of OA.
In order to overcome the single event function interrupt and SA failure, this paper proposes and implements a new way to design circuit, i.e. dynamically reconfigurable adaptive circuit design method. We load a Microblaze which is a soft CPU in FPGA as a motion control part of the circuit, as well as use some place of FPGA as evolution pool to find target circuit. Microblaze known input and the corresponding output applies genetic algorithm to search evolution pool. Depend on it, we successfully design and implement a DC Motor control system, besides, we carry out theoretical analysis on this circuit reliability and simulate circuit function repair test of SA fault, the result demonstrates that compared with the traditional circuit, this circuit and has a high reliability.
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