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Preparation and synthetic applications of 8-oxabicyclo[3.2.1]oct-6-en-3-one derivatives

Pierre Vogel, Sandrine Gerber, Sylvain Favre

The development of efficient routes to multi gram quantities of chiral synthons is a key issue in total synthesis of natural products and analogues. The conformationally defined and rigid 8-oxabicyclo[3.2.1]oct-6-en-3-one template appears as an appealing s ...

2008

Tailoring the Hybridization Density of DNA Biosensors through Tunable Surface Functionalization

Pauline Skigin, Sandrine Gerber, Mounir Driss Mensi, Perrine Agnes Edith Robin, Lucas Mayoraz

DNA biosensors are promising candidates for the development of point-of-care diagnosis methods. They can be inserted in microfluidic platforms, are often non-expensive, and can be produced for a variety of targeted analytes. However, their development face ...

Wiley-VHCA AG2023

Achieving high hybridization density at DNA biosensor surfaces using branched spacer and click chemistry

Sandrine Gerber, Mounir Driss Mensi, Perrine Agnes Edith Robin, Lucas Mayoraz, Alireza Kavand

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the necessity to develop fast, highly sensitive and selective virus detection methods. Surface-based DNA-biosensors are interesting candidates for this purpose. Functionalization of solid substrates with DNA must be pr ...

2023

Development of Covalent Chitosan-Polyethylenimine Derivatives as Gene Delivery Vehicle: Synthesis, Characterization, and Evaluation

Sandrine Gerber, Céline Marie Anne Journot, Laura Camille Louise Nicolle

There is an increasing interest in cationic polymers as important constituents of non-viral gene delivery vectors. In the present study, we developed a versatile synthetic route for the production of covalent polymeric conjugates consisting of water-solubl ...

2021

Multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells derived from porcine exocrine pancreas improve insulin secretion from juvenile porcine islet cell clusters

Sandrine Gerber, Luca Szabó

Neonatal and juvenile porcine islet cell clusters (ICC) present an unlimited source for islet xenotransplantation to treat type 1 diabetes patients. We isolated ICC from pancreata of 14 days old juvenile piglets and characterized their maturation by immuno ...

2021

Two-photon triggered photorelease of caged compounds from multifunctional harmonic nanoparticles

Sandrine Gerber, Laure Menin, Daniel Ortiz Trujillo, Luigi Bonacina, Raphaël Jovita De Matos, Jérémy Vuilleumier

The design of stimuli-responsive nanocarriers has raised much attention to achieve higher local concentration of therapeutics and mitigate the appearance of drug resistance. The combination of imaging properties and controlled photorelease of active molecu ...

2019

Recent Synthetic Approaches Toward Non-anomeric Spiroketals in Natural Products

Pierre Vogel, Sandrine Gerber, Sylvain Favre

Many natural products of biological interest contain [6,5]- and [6,6]-spiroketal moieties that can adopt various configurations, benefiting or not from anomeric conformation stabilizing effects. The spiroketal fragments are often important for the biologic ...

2008

Photocontrolled release of the anticancer drug chlorambucil with caged harmonic nanoparticles

Sandrine Gerber, Luigi Bonacina, Raphaël Jovita De Matos, Jérémy Vuilleumier

While chemotherapy is one of the most used treatments in oncology, the systemic administration of chemotherapeutics generally results in undesired damages to healthy tissues and cells, side effects such as severe nausea and leukopenia, and reduced efficacy ...

Wiley-VHCA AG2020

Core-shell Structured Chitosan-polyethylenimine Nanoparticles for Gene Delivery: Improved Stability, Cellular Uptake, and Transfection Efficiency

Sandrine Gerber, Perrine Agnes Edith Robin, Laura Camille Louise Nicolle

Gene therapy emerged as a promising treatment option for acquired and inherited diseases. The delivery of nucleic acids relies on vectors that condense and encapsulate their cargo. Especially non-viral gene delivery systems are of increasing interest. Howe ...

2022

Scavenging Free Radicals To Preserve Enhancement and Extend Relaxation Times in NMR using Dynamic Nuclear Polarization

Rolf Gruetter, Geoffrey Bodenhausen, Arnaud Comment, Sandrine Gerber, Mor-Miri Mishkovsky, Sami Jannin, Pascal Miéville, Riddhiman Sarkar, Paul Romeo Vasos, Puneet Ahuja

Vitamin C for longer lifetimes: N-oxide radicals that are widely used for dynamic nuclear polarization can be reduced by scavengers such as sodium ascorbate (vitamin C) during the dissolution process, thus diminishing losses of polarization during the tran ...

Wiley-Blackwell2010

Inhibitor-conjugated harmonic nanoparticles targeting fibroblast activation protein

Sandrine Gerber, Raphaël Jovita De Matos, Jérémy Vuilleumier

The recent progress in the engineering of nanosized inorganic materials presenting tailored physical properties and reactive surface for post-functionalization has opened promising avenues for the use of nanoparticles (NPs) in diagnosis and therapeutic int ...

2019

Beneficial effects of Human Mesenchymal Stromal Cells on Porcine Hepatocyte Viability and Albumin Secretion

Sandrine Gerber, Solène Marcelle Françoise Marie Passemard, François Rémi Pierre Noverraz, Luca Szabó

Porcine hepatocytes transplanted during acute liver failure might support metabolic functions until the diseased liver recovers its function. Here, we isolated high numbers of viable pig hepatocytes and evaluated hepatocyte functionality after encapsulatio ...

2018

Functionalized pyrrolidine inhibitors of human alpha- mannosidases II in cancer: optimizing the fit to the active site

Sandrine Gerber, Hélène Fiaux

Refining the chemical structure of functionalized pyrrolidine-based inhibitors of Golgi α- mannosidase II (GMII) to optimize binding affinity provided a lead molecule that demonstrated nanomolar competitive inhibition of α-mannosidases II and an optimal fi ...

2008

Human mesenchymal stromal cells improve survival and function of pancreatic islets by cell-to-cell contact

Sandrine Gerber, Jutta Christine Wandrey, Redouan Mahou

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Selective hydrolysis of anti-1,3-diol-acetonides for the differentiation of 1,3-anti and 1,3-syn diols

Sandrine Gerber, Gérald Coste

A mild and general method for the selective cleavage of anti-1,3-acetonides has been developed for the differentiation of 1,3-anti and 1,3-syn diols in long chain polyolic fragments. The diluted acidic conditions applied to these systems are compatible wit ...

Elsevier2006

Nonclassical Nucleation and Crystallization of LiNbO3 Nanoparticles from the Aqueous Solvothermal Alkoxide Route

Sandrine Gerber, Aurélien Bornet, Adrian Stefan Gheata

The exact molecular reaction pathway and crystallization mechanisms of LiNbO3 nanoparticles under solvothermal conditions are derived through extensive time- and temperature-resolved experiments allowing to track all the transient molecular and solid speci ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

Biosynthesis of gold nanostructures using human cells

Olivier Martin, Sandrine Gerber, Christian Santschi, Shourya Dutta Gupta

2014

Beneficial Effects of Human Mesenchymal Stromal Cells on Porcine Hepatocyte Viability and Albumin Secretion

Sandrine Gerber, Solène Marcelle Françoise Marie Passemard, François Rémi Pierre Noverraz, Luca Szabó

LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS2018

Nonlinear optical and magnetic properties of BiFeO3 harmonic nanoparticles

Sandrine Gerber, Luigi Bonacina, Solène Marcelle Françoise Marie Passemard, Davide Städler

Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) from BiFeO3 nanocrystals is investigated for the first time to determine their potential as biomarkers for multiphoton imaging. Nanocrystals are produced by an auto-combustion method with 2-amino-2-hydroxymethyl-propane-1,3 ...

American Institute of Physics2014

Deep UV generation and direct DNA photo-interaction by harmonic nanoparticles in labelled samples

Sandrine Gerber, Luigi Bonacina, Solène Marcelle Françoise Marie Passemard, Davide Städler

A biophotonics approach based on the nonlinear optical process of second harmonic generation is presented and demonstrated on malignant human cell lines labelled by harmonic nanoparticles. The method enables independent imaging and therapeutic action, sele ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2014