 Silk
"Silk" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A continuous protein fiber consisting primarily of FIBROINS. It is synthesized by a variety of INSECTS and ARACHNIDS.
| Descriptor ID |
D047011
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
D05.750.078.875 D12.776.093.750
|
| Concept/Terms |
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Silk".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Silk".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Silk" by people in this website by year, and whether "Silk" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
To return to the timeline, click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Silk" by people in Profiles.
-
Challita EJ, Alexander SLM, Han SI, Blackledge TA, Coddington JA, Jung S, Bhamla MS. Slingshot spiders build tensed, underdamped webs for ultrafast launches and speedy halts. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol. 2021 03; 207(2):205-217.
-
Niemiec SM, Louiselle AE, Hilton SA, Dewberry LC, Zhang L, Azeltine M, Xu J, Singh S, Sakthivel TS, Seal S, Liechty KW, Zgheib C. Nanosilk Increases the Strength of Diabetic Skin and Delivers CNP-miR146a to Improve Wound Healing. Front Immunol. 2020; 11:590285.
-
Gangrade A, Mandal BB. Drug Delivery of Anticancer Drugs from Injectable 3D Porous Silk Scaffold for Prevention of Gastric Cancer Growth and Recurrence. ACS Biomater Sci Eng. 2020 11 09; 6(11):6195-6206.
-
Singh S, Cortes G, Kumar U, Sakthivel TS, Niemiec SM, Louiselle AE, Azeltine-Bannerman M, Zgheib C, Liechty KW, Seal S. Silk fibroin nanofibrous mats for visible sensing of oxidative stress in cutaneous wounds. Biomater Sci. 2020 Nov 07; 8(21):5900-5910.
-
Alexander SLM, Bhamla MS. Ultrafast launch of slingshot spiders using conical silk webs. Curr Biol. 2020 08 17; 30(16):R928-R929.
-
Florczak A, Jastrzebska K, Bialas W, Mackiewicz A, Dams-Kozlowska H. Optimization of spider silk sphere formation processing conditions to obtain carriers with controlled characteristics. J Biomed Mater Res A. 2018 12; 106(12):3211-3221.
-
Kucharczyk K, Weiss M, Jastrzebska K, Luczak M, Ptak A, Kozak M, Mackiewicz A, Dams-Kozlowska H. Bioengineering the spider silk sequence to modify its affinity for drugs. Int J Nanomedicine. 2018; 13:4247-4261.
-
Fairfield H, Falank C, Farrell M, Vary C, Boucher JM, Driscoll H, Liaw L, Rosen CJ, Reagan MR. Development of a 3D bone marrow adipose tissue model. Bone. 2019 01; 118:77-88.
-
Jastrzebska K, Florczak A, Kucharczyk K, Lin Y, Wang Q, Mackiewicz A, Kaplan DL, Dams-Kozlowska H. Delivery of chemotherapeutics using spheres made of bioengineered spider silks derived from MaSp1 and MaSp2 proteins. Nanomedicine (Lond). 2018 02; 13(4):439-454.
-
Jastrzebska K, Felcyn E, Kozak M, Szybowicz M, Buchwald T, Pietralik Z, Jesionowski T, Mackiewicz A, Dams-Kozlowska H. The method of purifying bioengineered spider silk determines the silk sphere properties. Sci Rep. 2016 06 17; 6:28106.
|
People  People who have written about this concept. _
Similar Concepts
People who have written about this concept.
_
Top Journals
Top journals in which articles about this concept have been published.
|