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Our latest article reviewing the research trends and applicability of magnetic stimulation therapeutic approaches for musculoskeleton diseases has been published in Small Science (IF = 12.7).
You can find the full-text version here:
José G. S. Figueiredo; Bárbara M. de Sousa; Marco P. Soares dos Santos; Sandra I. Vieira. (2024)"Gathering Evidence to Leverage Musculoskeletal Magnetic Stimulation Towards Clinical Applicability". Small Science, 4(5). Doi:10.1002/smsc.202300303
Our PhD students, Bruna Cruz and José Gabriel Figueiredo, represented our lab at the Medical Technologies in Spinal Cord Injuries – An awareness workshop that took place at the University of Aveiro on 27th October, presenting 2 flash talks.
Bruna presented the main findings of our recently published review in a short talk entitled 'Cell therapies for spinal cord injury: ​a review of the clinical trials and cell-type therapeutic potential​'.
José Gabriel provided an overview of his PhD project on the effects of a brain-machine interface intervention in SCI patients.
The details of the event can be found at: https://spinalcordworkshop.wixsite.com/medical-technologies
Recently, we have published 2 new articles in the framework of our European Project 'NeurostimSpinal'.
The article 'Customizing 3D Structures of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes to Direct Neural Stem Cell Differentiation' has been published in June 2023 on Advanced Health Materials (IF = 10) and can be accessed on: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adhm.202300828.
Nascimento L, Fernandes C, Silva RM, Semitela A, de Sousa BM, Marques PAAP, Vieira SI, Silva RF, Barroca N, Gonçalves G. (2023) 'Customizing 3D Structures of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes to Direct Neural Stem Cell Differentiation. Adv. Healthcare Mater. 2300828. DOI: 10.1002/adhm.202300828
Another article, entitled 'Decellularized extracellular matrix-based 3D nanofibrous scaffolds functionalized with polydopamine-reduced graphene oxide for neural tissue engineering' has been published in September 2023 on the Chemical Engineering Journal (IF = 15.1) and can found at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1385894723037117.
Silva D, Barroca N, Pinto SC, Semitela A, de Sousa BM, Martins PAD, Nero L, Madarieta I, GarcÃa-Urkia N, Fernández-San-Argimiro FJ, Garcia-Lizarribar A, Murua O, Olalde B, Bdikin I, Vieira SI & Marques PAAP. (2023) Decellularized extracellular matrix-based 3D nanofibrous scaffolds functionalized with polydopamine-reduced graphene oxide for neural tissue engineering. Chemical Engineering Journal. 472, 144980. DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2023.144980