• Plasmonic enhancement in PTB7-Th:PC71BM organic photovoltaics 

  Kurt, Hasan (Elsevier B.V., 2022)

  Organic photovoltaics struggles with limited exciton diffusion rate and low light absorption rates. The trade-off between these deficiencies limits the thickness of the active layer around 100–200 nm range. Plasmonic light ...

• Characterization and biological evaluation of crataegus azarolus fruit polysaccharides 

  Bensaci, Narimen; Abdi, Akila; Aziza, Haifa Ben; Aouadi, Saoudi (Elsevier B.V., 2022)

  The polysaccharide obtained from Crataegus azarolus fruit, by water extraction followed by ethanol precipitation and fractionation using copper complex, shows physiological activities: prebiotic and antioxidant. The total ...

• Experimental and computational investigation of clustering behavior of cyclodextrin-perfluorocarbon inclusion complexes as effective histotripsy agents 

  Kaymaz, Betül; Mustafa, Waleed; Hall, Sarah; Vlaisavljevich, Eli; Şensoy, Özge; Yüksel Durmaz, Yasemin (American Chemical Society, 2022)

  Recently developed nanocones (NCs), which are inclusion complexes that are made up of cyclodextrins (CDs) and perfluorocarbons (PFCs), have shown promising results in nanoparticle-mediated histotripsy (NMH) applications ...

• Total internal reflection holographic microscopy for cellular imaging 

  Gürcan, Tolga; Toy, Muhammed Fatih (SPIE, 2022)

  The study of interfacial structures is of utmost importance not only for various research fields such as cell biology and display systems but also their sub-disciplines. One of the traditional means of imaging buried ...

• An integrated top-stage incubator and lens free holographic imaging system for culture monitoring applications 

  Özbilgin, Zeynep; Akşit, Sevdenur; Toy, Muhammed Fatih (SPIE, 2022)

  Lens free inline holographic microscopy was shown to be a potent approach for many applications relying on cellular imaging. Applications requiring a large field of view at moderate resolution are the ones that are most ...

• Maskless lithography with holographic feedback for the fabrication of optical elements 

  Gürcan, Tolga; Toy, Muhammed Fatih (SPIE, 2022)

  Photolithography has become a powerful tool in the fabrication of micro-optical elements following the advancements in grayscale approaches. However, hitting tight design tolerance goals require precise control of all ...

• SELEX against whole-cell bacteria resulted in lipopolysaccharide binding aptamers 

  Yılmaz, Deniz; Muslu, Tuğdem; Parlar, Ayhan; Kurt, Hasan; Yüce, Meral (Elsevier B.V., 2022)

  Nucleic acid aptamers are target-specific oligonucleotides selected from combinatorial libraries through an iterative in vitro screening process known as Systemic Evolution of Ligands by Exponential Enrichment (SELEX). In ...

• Investigation of 3D-printed chitosan-xanthan gum patches 

  Altan, Eray; Türker, Nurgül; Hindy, Osama Ali; Dirican, Zeynep; Bingöl Özakpınar, Özlem; Uzuner Demir, Ayşegül; Kalaskar, Deepak; Thakur, Sourbh; Gündüz, Oğuzhan (Elsevier B.V., 2022)

  In this study, using a new polymer combination of Chitosan(CH)/Xanthan Gum(XG) has been exhibited for wound dressing implementation by the 3D-Printing method, which was fabricated due to its biocompatible, biodegradable, ...

• A novel fontan Y-graft for interrupted inferior vena cava and azygos continuation 

  Lashkarinia, S. Samaneh; Çiçek, Murat; Köse, Banu; Rezaeimoghaddam, Mohammad; Hekim Yılmaz, Emine; Aydemir, Numan Ali; Rasooli, Reza; Özkök, Serçin; Yurtseven, Nurgül; Erdem, Hasan; Pekkan, Kerem; Şaşmazel, Ahmet (Elsevier Science, 2022)

  Objectives: To evaluate the hemodynamicdynamic advantage of a new Fontan surgical template that is intended for complex single-ventricle patients with interrupted inferior vena cava-azygos and hemi-azygos continuation. The ...

• In vitro measurement of hepatic flow distribution in Fontan vascular conduits: Towards rapid validation techniques 

  Rasooli, Reza; Köse, Kevser Banu; Lashkarinia, S. Samaneh; Şaşmazel, Ahmet; Pekkan, Kerem (Elsevier Ltd, 2022)

  Fontan operation is the last stage of single-ventricle surgical reconstructions that connects superior and inferior vena cava (SVC, IVC) to the pulmonary arteries. The key design objectives in total cavopulmonary connections ...

• Characterization of biological molecule–loaded nanostructures using circular dichroism and fourier transform infrared spectroscopy 

  Parlar, Ayhan; Kulabhusan, Prabir Kumar; Kurt, Hasan; Gürel, Büşra; Torabfam, Milad; Özata, Başak; Yüce, Meral (Taylor and Francis, 2021)

  Drug-loaded nanoparticles have many advantages in drug administration, which is an essential step for the impact of the drugs and their mechanism of action. Circular dichroism (CD) is a spectroscopy technique that measures ...

• Temperature and pH-dependent behaviors of mAb drugs: A case study for trastuzumab 

  Sert, Fatma; Hız, Defne; Gülmez, Mert; Cankurtaran, Selen Ezgi; Kayalan, Cemre Irmak; Kurt, Hasan; Yüce, Meral (MDPI, 2022)

  The distortions in the high-order structure of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) under different environmental conditions acutely affect mAb stability, resulting in altered safety, efficacy, and shelf-life profiles. ...

• Mechanistic insight into impact of phosphorylation on dynamics of farnesyltransferase: Targeting the protein under hyperinsulinemia 

  Pekel, Hanife; Güzel, Mustafa; Şensoy, Özge (Cell Press, 2022)

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• A behavioral paradigm for cortical control of a robotic actuator by freely moving rats in a one-dimensional two-target reaching task 

  Zaidi, Syed Muhammad Talha; Kocatürk, Samet; Baykaş, Tunçer; Kocatürk, Mehmet (Elsevier B.V., 2022)

  Background: Controlling the trajectory of a neuroprosthesis to reach distant targets is a commonly used brain-machine interface (BMI) task in primates and has not been available for rodents yet. New method: Here, we describe ...

• Mechanistic insight into the impact of a bivalent ligand on the structure and dynamics of a GPCR oligomer 

  Mansoor, Samman; Kayık, Gülru; Durdağı, Serdar; Şensoy, Özge (Elsevier B.V., 2022)

  Development of effective bivalent ligands has become the focus of intensive research toward modulation of G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) oligomers, particularly in the field of GPCR pharmacology. Experimental studies ...

• Antileishmanial activity of BNIPdaoct- and BNIPdanon-loaded emulsomes on leishmania infantum parasites 

  İşlek, Zeynep; Üçışık, Mehmet Hikmet; Keskin, Elif; Onur Sucu, Bilgesu; Gomes-Alves, Ana G.; Tomás, Ana M.; Güzel, Mustafa; Şahin, Fikrettin (Frontiers Media S.A., 2022)

  Among bisnaphthalimidopropyl (BNIP) derivatives, BNIPDaoct and BNIPDanon recently came forward with antileishmanial activities beyond the standard, commercialized antileishmanial therapies. However, high-level toxicity on ...

• Combining multiple clustering and network analysis for discoveries in gene expression data 

  Alhajj, Sleiman; Alhajj, Aya; Tarıyan Özyer, Sibel (Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2021)

  Clustering is a challenging research task which could benefit a wide range of practical applications, including bioinformatics. It targets success by optimizing a number of objectives, a characteristic mostly ignored by ...

• A python code for maximum likelihood estimation of the location and scale parameters of the truncated normal distribution 

  Ögütcen, Melih Yılmaz; Kocatürk, Mehmet; Okatan, Murat (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2021)

  Extracellular neural recordings obtained from chronically implanted microelectrode arrays are widely used in behavioral neurophysiology and invasive brain-machine interfaces. After the raw recordings are band-pass filtered ...

• Using Johnson's SU distribution for modeling the background activity in extracellular neural recordings 

  Ögütcen, Melih Yılmaz; Kocatürk, Mehmet; Okatan, Murat (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2021)

  Extracellular neural recordings obtained from awake behaving subjects through chronically implanted microelectrode arrays provide information about the functioning of the brain with sub-millisecond temporal resolution at ...

• Investigation into cervical spine biomechanics following single, multilevel and hybrid disc replacement surgery with dynamic cervical implant and fusion: A finite element study 

  Mumtaz, Muzammil; Zafarparandeh, Iman; Erbulut, Deniz Ufuk (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2022)

  Cervical fusion has been a standard procedure for treating abnormalities associated with the cervical spine. However, the reliability of anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) has become arguable due to its adverse ...

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