In addition, due to the ease of modification with specific chemical functionalities, stimuli-responsive polymers have attracted additional attention for use as antifouling coatings [43 46].
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Modification with specific ligands may solve this problem, and provide more specific imaging.
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These modifications increase the hydrophilicity, change the nanoscale topography and/or increase the abundance of functional groups on the surface, which can all modulate cell-surface interactions either through modulation of protein adsorption or by allowing modification with specific ligands.
However, this basic design has various modifications, each with specific pros and cons in terms of scientific requirements, burden for the study subjects, and efficient use of resources.
Thus, small-molecule 'epigenetic therapies' may be required to inhibit multiple targets – at least for optimal therapeutic benefit – perhaps aimed at modulating sets of post-oligomerisation modifications associated with specific regions of chromatin.
Genome-wide studies of histone modification patterns have shown that specific histone modifications are associated with specific genomic functions and that these patterns are altered in cancer.
Histone modification data is quite useful compared to conservation studies because histone modifications strongly correlate with specific biological activities.
While ideally situations of low data availability would be addressed by increased sampling, this is not always possible due to economic, temporal or other constraints, and the shortage of high-quality species occurrence data requires the development of improved modelling frameworks, with targeted modifications to deal with specific problems (Lomba et al. 2010; Vicente et al. 2011).
