READ ME File For 'Dataset supporting the University of Southampton Doctoral Thesis "Development of poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) electrospun membranes for incorporation into 3-D co-culture models of the airway-blood barrier"' Dataset DOI: https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/D2939 Date that the file was created: April 2024 ------------------- GENERAL INFORMATION ------------------- ReadMe Author: Jonathan James, University of Southampton Date of data collection: 2016-2021 Information about geographic location of data collection: Southampton General Hospital only. -------------------------- SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION -------------------------- Licenses/restrictions placed on the data, or limitations of reuse: CC-BY, one year embargo ending 20/01/25 Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: Physical Harddrive: Brooke Lab, Level F, South Academic Block, Southampton General Hospital. -------------------- DATA & FILE OVERVIEW -------------------- This dataset contains: Raw data and associated graphs and statistics in GraphPad Prism (version 10.2.0) files. Separate files are included for each results chapter. Thesis_R1 - data for figures in the first results chapter, thesis chapter 3 - Development of an Electrospinning System and the Generation of PLGA Membranes THesis_R2 - data for figures in the second results chapter, thesis chapter 4 - Biological characterisation of Epithelial Barrier Formation on Electrospun PLGA Membranes Thesis_R3 - data for figures in the third results chapter, thesis chapter 5 - Development of a 3-D Co-culture Model using Electrospun Membrane Additional related data collected that was not included in the current data package: Raw image files for images included in thesis are stored in a physical harddrive as LIF files for the Leica application suite. The physical harddrive is stored at: Brooke Lab, Level F, South Academic Block, Southampton General Hospital -------------------------- METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION -------------------------- Data collection as described in associated thesis. Statistics are included with the data entry. Software required to open filed: Graphpad Prism v10.2.0 (392) -------------------------- DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION -------------------------- Variable list, defining any abbreviations, units of measure, codes or symbols used: All definitions and abbreviations are available in the associated thesis. Ω.cm^2 is a measure of transepitheial electrical resistance over an area. Missing data codes: Blank cell