Elena Taran

Platelet-derived growth factor-AB improves scar mechanics and vascularity after myocardial infarction

Sujitha Thavapalachandran, Stuart M Grieve, Robert D Hume, Thi Yen Loan Le, Kalyan Raguram, James E Hudson, Jim Pouliopoulos, Gemma A Figtree, Rafael P Dye, Anthony M Barry, Paula Brown, Juntang Lu, Sean Coffey, Scott H Kesteven, Richard J Mills, Fairooj N Rashid, Elena Taran, Pramesh Kovoor, Liza Thomas, Alan Robert Denniss, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  SCIENCE TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE

Therapies that target scar formation after myocardial infarction (MI) could prevent ensuing heart failure or death from ventricula..

Identification of active sites for acidic oxygen reduction on carbon catalysts with and without nitrogen doping

Yi Jia, Longzhou Zhang, Linzhou Zhuang, Hongli Liu, Xuecheng Yan, Xin Wang, Jiandang Liu, Jiancheng Wang, Yarong Zheng, Zhaohui Xiao, Elena Taran, Jun Chen, Dongjiang Yang, Zhonghua Zhu, Shuangyin Wang, Liming Dai, Xiangdong Yao

Journal article  |  2019  |  NATURE CATALYSIS

Owing to the difficulty in controlling the dopant or defect types and their homogeneity in carbon materials, it is still a controv..

The focal adhesion targeting domain of p130Cas confers a mechanosensing function

Peta M Bradbury, Kylie Turner, Camilla Mitchell, Kaitlyn R Griffin, Shiloh Middlemiss, Loretta Lau, Rebecca Dagg, Elena Taran, Justin Cooper-White, Ben Fabry, Geraldine M O'Neill

Journal article  |  2017  |  JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Members of the Cas family of focal adhesion proteins contain a highly conserved C-terminal focal adhesion targeting (FAT) domain. ..

Hydrogels with Lotus Leaf Topography: Investigating Surface Properties and Cell Adhesion

Miriem Santander-Borrego, Elena Taran, Audra MA Shadforth, Andrew K Whittaker, Traian V Chirila, Idriss Blakey

Journal article  |  2017  |  LANGMUIR

The interactions of cells with the surface of materials is known to be influenced by a range of factors that include chemistry and..

A Plasmodium falciparum S33 proline aminopeptidase is associated with changes in erythrocyte deformability

Fabio L da Silva, Matthew WA Dixon, Colin M Stack, Franka Teuscher, Elena Taran, Malcolm K Jones, Erica Lovas, Leann Tilley, Christopher L Brown, Katharine R Trenholme, John P Dalton, Donald L Gardiner, Tina S Skinner-Adams

Journal article  |  2016  |  EXPERIMENTAL PARASITOLOGY

Infection with the apicomplexan parasite Plasmodium falciparum is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. One of the s..

Size-dependent gene delivery of amine-modified silica nanoparticles

Meihua Yu, Yuting Niu, Jun Zhang, Hongwei Zhang, Yannan Yang, Elena Taran, Siddharth Jambhrunkar, Wenyi Gu, Peter Thorn, Chengzhong Yu

Journal article  |  2016  |  NANO RESEARCH

Silica-based nanoparticles are promising carriers for gene delivery applications. To gain insights into the effect of particle siz..

Effect of energy source, salt concentration and loading force on colloidal interactions between Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans cells and mineral surfaces

Mengxue Diao, Tuan AH Nguyen, Elena Taran, Stephen M Mahler, Anh V Nguyen

Journal article  |  2015  |  COLLOIDS AND SURFACES B-BIOINTERFACES

The surface appendages and extracellular polymeric substances of cells play an important role in the bacterial adhesion process. I..

Synthesis of silica nanoparticles with controllable surface roughness for therapeutic protein delivery

Yuting Niu, Meihua Yu, Jun Zhang, Yannan Yang, Chun Xu, Michael Yeh, Elena Taran, Jeff Jia Cheng Hou, Peter P Gray, Chengzhong Yu

Journal article  |  2015  |  JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY B

There is an increasing demand of efficient nano-carriers for intracellular delivery of therapeutic proteins. This study reports on..

Easily deconstructed, high aspect ratio cellulose nanofibres from Triodia pungens; an abundant grass of Australia's arid zone

Nasim Amiralian, Pratheep K Annamalai, Paul Memmott, Elena Taran, Susanne Schmidt, Darren J Martin

Journal article  |  2015  |  RSC ADVANCES

The production of high aspect ratio cellulose nanofibres without resorting to very harsh mechanical and/or chemical processing ste..

A concise review of nanoscopic aspects of bioleaching bacteria-mineral interactions

Mengxue Diao, Elena Taran, Stephen Mahler, Anh V Nguyen

Journal article  |  2014  |  ADVANCES IN COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE

Bioleaching is a technology for the recovery of metals from minerals by means of microorganisms, which accelerate the oxidative di..