The past and the future of Langmuir and Langmuir–Blodgett films

ON Oliveira Jr, L Caseli, K Ariga - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
The Langmuir–Blodgett (LB) technique, through which monolayers are transferred from the
air/water interface onto a solid substrate, was the first method to allow for the controlled …

Mechanistic insights into the effect of humidity on airborne influenza virus survival, transmission and incidence

LC Marr, JW Tang, J Van Mullekom… - Journal of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Influenza incidence and seasonality, along with virus survival and transmission, appear to
depend at least partly on humidity, and recent studies have suggested that absolute …

Electronic cigarettes disrupt lung lipid homeostasis and innate immunity independent of nicotine

MC Madison, CT Landers, BH Gu… - The Journal of …, 2020 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) or e-cigarettes have emerged as a popular
recreational tool among adolescents and adults. Although the use of ENDS is often …

Spray method application of transdermal dsRNA delivery system for efficient gene silencing and pest control on soybean aphid Aphis glycines

S Yan, J Qian, C Cai, Z Ma, J Li, M Yin, B Ren… - Journal of Pest …, 2020 - Springer
RNA interference (RNAi) has been recognized as a novel and safe strategy in pest
management due to its high sequence-dependent specificity. However, the existing dsRNA …

Physico-chemical characteristics of evaporating respiratory fluid droplets

EP Vejerano, LC Marr - Journal of The Royal Society …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The detailed physico-chemical characteristics of respiratory droplets in ambient air, where
they are subject to evaporation, are poorly understood. Changes in the concentration and …

Evolution of spray and aerosol from respiratory releases: theoretical estimates for insight on viral transmission

PM de Oliveira, LCC Mesquita… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
By modelling the evaporation and settling of droplets emitted during respiratory releases
and using previous measurements of droplet size distributions and SARS-CoV-2 viral load …

Survival of MS2 and Φ6 viruses in droplets as a function of relative humidity, pH, and salt, protein, and surfactant concentrations

K Lin, CR Schulte, LC Marr - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The survival of viruses in droplets is known to depend on droplets' chemical composition,
which may vary in respiratory fluid between individuals and over the course of disease. This …

Composition, structure and mechanical properties define performance of pulmonary surfactant membranes and films

E Parra, J Pérez-Gil - Chemistry and physics of lipids, 2015 - Elsevier
The respiratory surface in the mammalian lung is stabilized by pulmonary surfactant, a
membrane-based system composed of multiple lipids and specific proteins, the primary …

Role of TNFα in pulmonary pathophysiology

S Mukhopadhyay, JR Hoidal, TK Mukherjee - Respiratory research, 2006 - Springer
Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα) is the most widely studied pleiotropic cytokine of the
TNF superfamily. In pathophysiological conditions, generation of TNFα at high levels leads …

[HTML][HTML] Current perspectives in pulmonary surfactant—inhibition, enhancement and evaluation

YY Zuo, RAW Veldhuizen, AW Neumann… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2008 - Elsevier
Pulmonary surfactant (PS) is a complicated mixture of approximately 90% lipids and 10%
proteins. It plays an important role in maintaining normal respiratory mechanics by reducing …