Rapidly responsive silk fibroin hydrogels as an artificial matrix for the programmed tumor cells death.

Timely and spatially-regulated injectable hydrogels, able to suppress growing tumors in response to conformational transitions of proteins, are of great interest in cancer research and treatment. Herein, we report rapidly responsive silk fibroin (SF) hydrogels formed by a horseradish peroxidase (HRP...

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Main Authors: Viviana P Ribeiro, Joana Silva-Correia, Cristiana Gonçalves, Sandra Pina, Hajer Radhouani, Toni Montonen, Jari Hyttinen, Anirban Roy, Ana L Oliveira, Rui L Reis, Joaquim M Oliveira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5884513?pdf=render