Mucous membranes are covered with mucus, a viscoelastic hydrogel that plays an essential role in their protection from shear and pathogens. The viscoelasticity of mucus is owing to mucins, a group of densely glycosylated proteins. Mucins can interact with a wide range of surfaces; thus, there is big interest in exploring and manipulating such interactions for biomedical applications. This thesis presents investigations of mucin interactions with hydrophobic surfaces in order to identify the key features of mucin lubricity, as well as describes the development of materials that are optimized to interact with mucins. In Paper I we investigated the domains which make mucins outstanding boundary lubricants. The results showed that the hydroph...
Mucin networks are viscoelastic fibrillar aggregates formed through the complex self-association of ...
Interfacial properties of two brush-with-anchor mucins, C-P55 and C-PSLex, have been investigated at...
The scope of this masters thesis is the preparation of a model mucin system and its utilization as a...
Mucous membranes are covered with mucus, a viscoelastic hydrogel that plays an essential role in the...
Mucoadhesion is defined as the adhesion of a material to the mucus gel covering the mucous membranes...
Owing to their key role in mucosal functioning as surface barriers with biospecific interaction pote...
Mucin is a naturally occurring polymer that belongs to the glycoprotein family. It is an amphiphilic...
A key property of mucin glycoproteins is their exceptional capacity to hydrate and lubricate surface...
The main components in the mucous gels apart from water are mucins, which are proteins with high mol...
Mucus is a hydrogel that covers epithelial cells and acts as an intermediary between the exterior an...
Interfacial properties of two brush-with-anchor mucins, C-P55 and C-PSLex, have been investigated at...
Mucus lubricants are widely distributed in living organisms. Such lubricants consist of a gel struct...
The precise spatial control of cell adhesion to surfaces is an endeavor that has enabled discoveries...
There is a rising interest in the use of new adhesive materials in the field of tissue engineering, ...
This is an Open Access article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence...
Mucin networks are viscoelastic fibrillar aggregates formed through the complex self-association of ...
Interfacial properties of two brush-with-anchor mucins, C-P55 and C-PSLex, have been investigated at...
The scope of this masters thesis is the preparation of a model mucin system and its utilization as a...
Mucous membranes are covered with mucus, a viscoelastic hydrogel that plays an essential role in the...
Mucoadhesion is defined as the adhesion of a material to the mucus gel covering the mucous membranes...
Owing to their key role in mucosal functioning as surface barriers with biospecific interaction pote...
Mucin is a naturally occurring polymer that belongs to the glycoprotein family. It is an amphiphilic...
A key property of mucin glycoproteins is their exceptional capacity to hydrate and lubricate surface...
The main components in the mucous gels apart from water are mucins, which are proteins with high mol...
Mucus is a hydrogel that covers epithelial cells and acts as an intermediary between the exterior an...
Interfacial properties of two brush-with-anchor mucins, C-P55 and C-PSLex, have been investigated at...
Mucus lubricants are widely distributed in living organisms. Such lubricants consist of a gel struct...
The precise spatial control of cell adhesion to surfaces is an endeavor that has enabled discoveries...
There is a rising interest in the use of new adhesive materials in the field of tissue engineering, ...
This is an Open Access article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence...
Mucin networks are viscoelastic fibrillar aggregates formed through the complex self-association of ...
Interfacial properties of two brush-with-anchor mucins, C-P55 and C-PSLex, have been investigated at...
The scope of this masters thesis is the preparation of a model mucin system and its utilization as a...