Macrophage phenotypes in tissue repair and the foreign body response: Implications for biomaterial-based regenerative medicine strategies

KE Martin, AJ García - Acta biomaterialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Macrophages are a highly heterogeneous and plastic population of cells that are crucial for
tissue repair and regeneration. This has made macrophages a particularly attractive target …

Biomaterials: foreign bodies or tuners for the immune response?

E Mariani, G Lisignoli, RM Borzì… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
The perspectives of regenerative medicine are still severely hampered by the host response
to biomaterial implantation, despite the robustness of technologies that hold the promise to …

Smart/stimuli-responsive hydrogels: State-of-the-art platforms for bone tissue engineering

HM El-Husseiny, EA Mady, WA El-Dakroury… - Applied Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Repair of bone defects is a time-consuming, self-healing process based on tissue modeling
and remodeling. However, the capacity of this method is limited, especially for critical-sized …

[HTML][HTML] Cell–scaffold interactions in tissue engineering for oral and craniofacial reconstruction

F Wang, X Cai, Y Shen, L Meng - Bioactive Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Tissue engineering (TE) is critical in oral and craniofacial reconstruction. One of the most
popular topics on the biomaterial-based tissue regeneration process may be the interaction …

Engineering immunomodulatory biomaterials to tune the inflammatory response

A Vishwakarma, NS Bhise, MB Evangelista… - Trends in …, 2016 - cell.com
Current state-of-the-art biomedical implants and tissue engineering methods promise
technologies to improve or even restore the function of diseased organs. However, one of …

Study of PDMS characterization and its applications in biomedicine: A review

A Victor, JE Ribeiro, FF Araújo - Journal of Mechanical …, 2019 - bibliotecadigital.ipb.pt
Polydimethylsiloxane, also known as PDMS, has been widely used in the biomedical
industry because of its biocompatible material and its biomechanical behavior is similar to …

Micro-and nanogels with labile crosslinks–from synthesis to biomedical applications

X Zhang, S Malhotra, M Molina, R Haag - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Micro-or nanosized three-dimensional crosslinked polymeric networks have been designed
and described for various biomedical applications, including living cell encapsulation, tissue …

PNIPAM microgels for biomedical applications: from dispersed particles to 3D assemblies

Y Guan, Y Zhang - Soft Matter, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Poly (N-isopropylacrylamide)(PNIPAM) microgel is perhaps the most well-known intelligent
soft nanomaterial. Combining the strengths of hydrogel and nanoparticles, with unique …

De novo design of allochroic zwitterions

D Zhang, Y Tang, J Yang, Y Gao, C Ma, L Che, J Wang… - Materials Today, 2022 - Elsevier
Zwitterionic materials and allochroic materials, as the two completely different materials,
offer distinct properties and functions for different applications, where the former is well …

Rational design of hydrogels for immunomodulation

W Bu, Y Wu, AM Ghaemmaghami… - Regenerative …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The immune system protects organisms against endogenous and exogenous harm and
plays a key role in tissue development, repair and regeneration. Traditional …