Recent developments in chitosan hydrogels carrying natural bioactive compounds

NHN Do, QT Truong, PK Le, AC Ha - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2022 - Elsevier
Chitosan hydrogel is a smart and highly applicable drug delivery carrier because of its
nature, biocompatibility, biodegradability, and ability to encapsulate, carry and release the …

A review of chitosan and its derivatives in bone tissue engineering

R LogithKumar, A KeshavNarayan, S Dhivya… - Carbohydrate …, 2016 - Elsevier
Critical-sized bone defects treated with biomaterials offer an efficient alternative to traditional
methods involving surgical reconstruction, allografts, and metal implants. Chitosan, a natural …

Bacterial cellulose as a material for wound treatment: Properties and modifications. A review

I Sulaeva, U Henniges, T Rosenau, A Potthast - Biotechnology advances, 2015 - Elsevier
Advanced approaches to wound healing have attracted much attention in the last decades
due to the use of novel types of dressings that provide a moist environment and take an …

Chemical and physical Chitosan modification for designing enzymatic industrial biocatalysts: How to choose the best strategy?

YL Nunes, FL de Menezes, IG de Sousa… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Chitosan is one of the most abundant natural polymer worldwide, and due to its inherent
characteristics, its use in industrial processes has been extensively explored. Because it is …

Improvement of the wound-healing process by curcumin-loaded chitosan/collagen blend electrospun nanofibers: in vitro and in vivo studies

N Jirofti, M Golandi, J Movaffagh… - ACS Biomaterials …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Chronic wounds have become a major health problem worldwide. Curcumin (Cur), with
strong anti-inflammatory and anti-infective properties, is introduced as a unique molecule for …

[HTML][HTML] Nature-based biomaterials and their application in biomedicine

E Troy, MA Tilbury, AM Power, JG Wall - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
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 …

Chitosan-based 3D-printed scaffolds for bone tissue engineering

LR Yadav, SV Chandran, K Lavanya… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite the spontaneous regenerative properties of autologous bone grafts, this technique
remains dilatory and restricted to fractures and injuries. Conventional grafting strategies …

[HTML][HTML] A review on revolutionary natural biopolymer-based aerogels for antibacterial delivery

EB Yahya, F Jummaat, AA Amirul, AS Adnan… - Antibiotics, 2020 - mdpi.com
A biopolymer-based aerogel has been developed to become one of the most potentially
utilized materials in different biomedical applications. The biopolymer-based aerogel has …

[HTML][HTML] Polysaccharides: Sources, characteristics, properties, and their application in biodegradable films

E Díaz-Montes - Polysaccharides, 2022 - mdpi.com
Biodegradable films emerge as alternative biomaterials to conventional packaging from
fossil sources, which, in addition to offering protection and increasing the shelf life of food …

Valorization of keratin waste biomass and its potential applications

CC Reddy, IA Khilji, A Gupta, P Bhuyar… - Journal of Water …, 2021 - Elsevier
Keratin is a major structural protein with high sulphur content. It is predominantly found in
chicken feathers, wool, hair, hoof, and nails. Over the years, the accumulation of keratin …