Natural polymers, based on proteins or polysaccharides, have attracted increasing interest
in recent years due to their broad potential uses in biomedicine. The chemical stability …

Polymers from natural sources are particularly useful as biomaterials and in regenerative
medicine, given their similarity to the extracellular matrix and other polymers in the human …

The present paper intends to overview a wide range of natural–origin polymers with special
focus on proteins and polysaccharides (the systems more inspired on the extracellular …

Several polymers of both natural and synthetic origin have been used for a variety of
biomedical applications including pharmaceutical preparations, drug targeting, imaging …

In the biomedical field, researchers are always looking for novel materials with improved
qualities that may be used in a variety of applications, including pharmaceutical …

Polymers derived from plant (polysaccharides) and animal (proteins) kingdoms have been
widely used for a variety of biomedical applications including drug delivery and tissue …

Biomaterials have had an increasingly important role in recent decades, in biomedical
device design and the development of tissue engineering solutions for cell delivery, drug …

Nowadays, tissue and organ failures resulted from injury, aging accounts, diseases or other
type of damages is one of the most important health problems with an increasing incidence …

Tissue engineering is the most promising therapeutic approach, in which damaged or
diseased tissues are regenerated by using different biomaterials with or without various drug …

Wound healing is a multi-factorial physiological process. The complexity of this
phenomenon makes it prone to several abnormalities. Apart from cellular and biochemical …