Or you can opt, as many do, for a condo close to downtown, starting at about $120,000.

Prices head south as you head east away from the foothills, with pleasant-enough properties in Martin Park, the cheapest neighborhood, averaging $185,000. For the rest of us, North Boulder has somewhat less distinguished houses but equal proximity to outdoor diversion. For the record, Mapleton Hill and Chautauqua are the plums, historic districts boasting huge eight-bedroom Tudors and Victorians, yours for high six figures spilling over into seven. Tightly controlled growth means the average ticket for a single-family home is $330,000 and rising, so the phrase “affordable housing” has become a real thigh-slapper here. Reason being…well, where to begin? With the obvious lures of the Front Range and the not-so-far-away Continental Divide and the 300 or so sunny days a year and the A-list mountaineering, rock climbing, skiing, snowboarding, backpacking, cycling, and whitewater daredevilry? With the civic values that have laid out 100 miles of trails and some 30,000 acres of preserved open space in and around town? With the storied athletic subculture that has taken in such talents as Mark Allen, Uta Pippig, and the godfather himself, Frank Shorter? Let’s put it this way: If you think that by now some other town can make a stronger claim to outdoor-sports Valhalladom, move there. But Boulder remains your best shot at filling not just a walk-in closet but an entire two-car garage with outdoor paraphernalia, and claiming reason on your side. “The sports town,” this very magazine crowed ten years ago, and it wasn’t exactly a scoop then, either. admittedly, this pick’s a bit predictable. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Climate: Rocky Mountain highs of 88 in July and 45 in January.Īll right, all right. These studies indicate that encapsulated hMSCs are capable of osteogenic differentiation in response to released dexamethasone. The biological activity of the released dexamethasone was verified in monolayer cell culture and in three-dimensional culture (i.e., in the gel) by the ability of hMSCs to express osteogenic genes, including alkaline phosphatase, osteopontin, and core binding factor alpha 1, as measured using real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Over time, hydrolysis of the ester bonds resulted in dexamethasone release from the gel. To accomplish this goal, dexamethasone was covalently linked to a photoreactive mono-acrylated PEG molecule through a degradable lactide bond, and this molecule was covalently incorporated into the PEG hydrogel during photopolymerization.

The aim of this work was to develop a dexamethasone-releasing poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG)-based hydrogel scaffold to deliver dexamethasone to encapsulated cells in a sustained manner. In vitro, dexamethasone is an efficient and reliable factor that leads to the osteogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs). Encapsulated hMSCs are presented with a “blank” environment, and this environment can be closely controlled in order to elicit an osteogenic response. Synthetic hydrogels represent highly controlled environments for three-dimensional culture of human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs).

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