Particle Aggregate Breakup by Fluid Shear

Author(s):  
James R. Hunt
2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 347-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
B C Dunsmore ◽  
A Jacobsen ◽  
L Hall-Stoodley ◽  
C J Bass ◽  
H M Lappin-Scott ◽  
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2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia C. Chen ◽  
Mardonn Chua ◽  
Raymond B. Bellon ◽  
Christopher R. Jacobs

Osteogenic lineage commitment is often evaluated by analyzing gene expression. However, many genes are transiently expressed during differentiation. The availability of genes for expression is influenced by epigenetic state, which affects the heterochromatin structure. DNA methylation, a form of epigenetic regulation, is stable and heritable. Therefore, analyzing methylation status may be less temporally dependent and more informative for evaluating lineage commitment. Here we analyzed the effect of mechanical stimulation on osteogenic differentiation by applying fluid shear stress for 24 hr to osteocytes and then applying the osteocyte-conditioned medium (CM) to progenitor cells. We analyzed gene expression and changes in DNA methylation after 24 hr of exposure to the CM using quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction and bisulfite sequencing. With fluid shear stress stimulation, methylation decreased for both adipogenic and osteogenic markers, which typically increases availability of genes for expression. After only 24 hr of exposure to CM, we also observed increases in expression of later osteogenic markers that are typically observed to increase after seven days or more with biochemical induction. However, we observed a decrease or no change in early osteogenic markers and decreases in adipogenic gene expression. Treatment of a demethylating agent produced an increase in all genes. The results indicate that fluid shear stress stimulation rapidly promotes the availability of genes for expression, but also specifically increases gene expression of later osteogenic markers.


2006 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. e51
Author(s):  
Caroline Cheng ◽  
Dennie Tempel ◽  
Luc van Damme ◽  
Rien van Haperen ◽  
Rob Krams ◽  
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Author(s):  
Jae-Min Jeong ◽  
Se Bin Jin ◽  
Seon Gyu Son ◽  
Hoyoung Suh ◽  
Jong-Min Moon ◽  
...  

2D FeIII nanosheets are synthesized by a fluid dynamics–assisted exfoliation and oxidation method for highly-catalyzed glycolysis reaction of PET.


Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (10) ◽  
pp. 2856
Author(s):  
Gary B. Smejkal ◽  
Edmund Y. Ting ◽  
Karthik Nambi Arul Nambi ◽  
Richard T. Schumacher ◽  
Alexander V. Lazarev

Stable, oil-in-water nanoemulsions containing astaxanthin (AsX) were produced by intense fluid shear forces resulting from pumping a coarse reagent emulsion through a self-throttling annular gap valve at 300 MPa. Compared to crude emulsions prepared by conventional homogenization, a size reduction of over two orders of magnitude was observed for AsX-encapsulated oil droplets following just one pass through the annular valve. In krill oil formulations, the mean hydrodynamic diameter of lipid particles was reduced to 60 nm after only two passes through the valve and reached a minimal size of 24 nm after eight passes. Repeated processing of samples through the valve progressively decreased lipid particle size, with an inflection in the rate of particle size reduction generally observed after 2–4 passes. Krill- and argan oil-based nanoemulsions were produced using an Ultra Shear Technology™ (UST™) approach and characterized in terms of their small particle size, low polydispersity, and stability.


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