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A Wearable Autonomous Colorimetric Sweat Induction System for Sweat Analysis

The wearable biochemical sweat sensor's capability to provide insight into molecular information of health dynamics ignites sweat analysis as a promising noninvasive diagnosis scheme for precision medicine. Here, we demonstrate, for the first time, a color ...

IEEE2021

Efficient viral transduction in mouse inner ear hair cells with utricle injection and AAV9-PHP.B

Bernard Schneider, Paola Andrea Solanes Vega

Viral delivery of exogenous coding sequences into the inner ear has the potential for therapeutic benefit for patients suffering genetic or acquired hearing loss. To devise improved strategies for viral delivery, we investigated two injection techniques, r ...

2020

Selective Peptide-Mediated Enhanced Deposition of Polymer Fragrance Delivery Systems on Human Hair

Harm-Anton Klok, Kemal Arda Günay

The deposition of fragrance delivery systems onto human hair from a shampoo formulation is a challenging task, as the primary function of shampoo is to cleanse the hair by removing primarily hydrophobic moieties. In this work, to tackle this challenge, pha ...

2017

Bioinspired Selective Surface Deposition of Fragrance Delivery Systems

Kemal Arda Günay

The perception of pleasantness in many of the consumer goods is provided by volatile chemical compounds called fragrances. While the volatility of fragrances is essential to provide a pleasant olfactory response, it presents at the same time a technologi ...

EPFL2016

From the early steps of whisker formation to its evolutionary disappearance: the (curious) case of Prdm1 and its regulation

Pierluigi Giuseppe Manti

Whiskers (also known as vibrissae) are sensory organs that are thought to have first appeared in Therapsida, a group of synapsids that includes mammals and evolutionary ancestors like the Thrinaxodon(1). They are highly conserved among mammals to the notab ...

EPFL2016

Analysis of Mammary Gland Phenotypes by Transplantation of the Genetically Marked Mammary Epithelium

Cathrin Brisken, Duje Buric

The mammary gland is the only organ to undergo most of its development after birth and therefore particularly attractive for studying developmental processes. In the mouse, powerful tissue recombination techniques are available that can be elegantly combin ...

2016

Correlations between photoactivable porphyrins’ fluorescence, erythema and the pain induced by PDT on normal skin using ALA-derivatives

Hubert van den Bergh, Georges Wagnières, Matthieu Philippe Emmanuel Zellweger, Jérôme Barge

Summary Background Photodynamic therapy (PDT) with precursors of photoactivable porphyrins is a well-established treatment modality for skin pathologies as well as hair removal. Pain is a major side effect thereof, and it affects the treatment compliance a ...

Elsevier2013

Multi-view hair capture using orientation fields

Mark Pauly, Zhenyuan Liu

Reconstructing realistic 3D hair geometry is challenging due to omnipresent occlusions, complex discontinuities and specular appearance. To address these challenges, we propose a multi-view hair reconstruction algorithm based on orientation fields with str ...

IEEE2012

Coat color dilution in mice because of inactivation of the melanoma antigen MART-1

Friedrich Beermann, Iraz Toprak Aydin

Melanoma antigen recognized by T cells 1 (MART-1) is a melanoma-specific antigen, which has been thoroughly studied in the context of immunotherapy against malignant melanoma and which is found only in the pigment cell lineage. However, its exact function ...

2012

Constitutive gray hair in Mice induced by Melanocyte-specific deletion of c-Myc

Friedrich Beermann, Karine Schouwey, Marzia Armaro

c-Myc is involved in the control of diverse cellular processes and implicated in the maintenance of different tissues including the neural crest. Here we report that c-Myc is particularly important for pigment cell development and homeostasis. Targeting c- ...

2012

Dynamic hair capture

Mark Pauly, Hao Li

The realistic reconstruction of hair motion is challenging because of hair’s complex occlusion, lack of a well-defined surface, and non-Lambertian material. We present a system for passive capture of dynamic hair performances using a set of high-speed vide ...

Tech. Rep. Technical Report TR-907-11, Princeton University2011

The Role of LEKTI in the Fate Determination of Keratinocyte Stem Cells

Alessandro Wataru Amici

SPINK5 (serine protease inhibitor Kazal-type 5) encodes the proteinase inhibitor LEKTI (lympho-epithelial Kazal-type related inhibitor). In skin, LEKTI expression is restricted to the stratum granulosum of the epidermis and the inner root sheath of hair fo ...

EPFL2011

A silicon model of the inner hair cell

Yusuf Leblebici

In this paper we present an electrical model of the inner hair cell based on an improved mathematical model. The model is implemented in silicon in the current domain using translinear circuits. It improves on previous models by taking into consideration t ...

2011

Key roles for transforming growth factor beta in melanocyte stem cell maintenance

Friedrich Beermann

Melanocyte stem cells in the bulge area of hair follicles are responsible for hair pigmentation, and defects in them cause hair graying. Here we describe the process of melanocyte stem cell entry into the quiescent state and show that niche-derived transfo ...

2010

The Notch signaling pathway : hair graying and pigment cell homeostasis

Karine Schouwey

In animals, pigment cells are essential for coloration, as seen in feathers, fur, skin and eyes. In mammals, neural crest-derived melanocytes constitute the major population of pigment cells that is located mainly in the skin epidermis, as well as in hair ...

EPFL2009

Target of rapamycin modulators of and use thereof

Yann Barrandon, Fahd Azzabi Zouraq

The present invention is related to new molecules capable of interacting with target of rapamycin (TOR) transcriptional complex. In particular, the present invention provides novel nucleic acid molecules, processes for production thereof, kits containing t ...

2009

Acquisition et recalage informatique d'images confocales de tissus denses : application à l'étude de la papille folliculaire de vibrisse de souris

Nicolas Fête

Analysis of the 3D structure of a biological sample is an important step to model cell and tissue dynamics. As a model system, we set up to determine the number of nuclei in a follicular papilla using confocal imaging and 3D computer reconstruction. The fo ...

EPFL2008

Epithelial stem cells and mechanical signal transduction : a functional unit?

Vincent Bernard Cattin

Hair follicles are cutaneous structures characteristic of mammals. These sensitive organs cycle and contain multipotent epithelial stem cells which are implicated in hair growth and hair cycle. A single whisker follicle of the rat hosts up to 1500 stem cel ...

EPFL2008

Cell culture imaging using microimpedance tomography

Philippe Renaud, Olof Pontus Linderholm

We present a novel, inexpensive, and fast microimpedance tomography system for two-dimensional imaging of cell and tissue cultures. The system is based on four-electrode measurements using 16 planar microelectrodes (5 mum x 4 mm) integrated into a culture ...

2008

Control of thrombin signaling through PI3K is a mechanism underlying plasticity between hair follicle dermal sheath and papilla cells

Yann Barrandon

In hair follicles, dermal papilla (DP) and dermal sheath (DS) cells exhibit striking levels of plasticity, as each can regenerate both cell types. Here, we show that thrombin induces a phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)-Akt pathway-dependent acquisition of D ...

Company of Biologists2008