[HTML][HTML] Opportunities for bacterial nanocellulose in biomedical applications: Review on biosynthesis, modification and challenges

P Samyn, A Meftahi, SA Geravand, MEM Heravi… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Bacterial nanocellulose (BNC) is a natural polysaccharide produced as extracellular
material by bacterial strains and has favorable intrinsic properties for primary use in …

Bacterial cellulose-based materials: A perspective on cardiovascular tissue engineering applications

S Fooladi, MH Nematollahi, N Rabiee… - … Biomaterials Science & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Today, a wide variety of bio-and nanomaterials have been deployed for cardiovascular
tissue engineering (TE), including polymers, metal oxides, graphene/its derivatives …

Bacterial cellulose-based composites as vehicles for dermal and transdermal drug delivery: a review

S Mohammadi, F Jabbari, V Babaeipour - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, a significant amount of drugs have been taken orally, which are not as
effective as desired. To solve this problem, bacterial cellulose-based dermal/transdermal …

Polysaccharide-based hydrogels for medical devices, implants and tissue engineering: A review

D Sanjanwala, V Londhe, R Trivedi, S Bonde… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hydrogels are highly biocompatible biomaterials composed of crosslinked three-
dimensional networks of hydrophilic polymers. Owing to their natural origin, polysaccharide …

Production of bacterial exopolysaccharides: xanthan and bacterial cellulose

VV Revin, EV Liyaskina, MV Parchaykina… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Recently, degradable biopolymers have become increasingly important as potential
environmentally friendly biomaterials, providing a wide range of applications in various …

Conductive bacterial cellulose: From drug delivery to flexible electronics

A Prilepskii, V Nikolaev, A Klaving - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2023 - Elsevier
Bacterial cellulose (BC) is a chemically pure, non-toxic, and non-pyrogenic natural polymer
with high mechanical strength and a complex fibrillar porous structure. Due to these unique …

Synthesis, properties, and applications of nanocomposite materials based on bacterial cellulose and MXene

AB Talipova, VV Buranych, IS Savitskaya, OV Bondar… - Polymers, 2023 - mdpi.com
MXene exhibits impressive characteristics, including flexibility, mechanical robustness, the
capacity to cleanse liquids like water through MXene membranes, water-attracting nature …

Review of piezoelectrical materials potentially useful for peripheral nerve repair

D Casal, MH Casimiro, LM Ferreira, JP Leal… - Biomedicines, 2023 - mdpi.com
It has increasingly been recognized that electrical currents play a pivotal role in cell
migration and tissue repair, in a process named “galvanotaxis”. In this review, we summarize …

Multichannel Conduits with Fascicular Complementation: Significance in Long Segmental Peripheral Nerve Injury

PA Ramesh, S Sethuraman… - … Biomaterials Science & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Despite the advances in tissue engineering approaches, reconstruction of long segmental
peripheral nerve defects remains unsatisfactory. Although autologous grafts with proper …

Bacterial cellulose–polyvinyl alcohol based complex composites for controlled drug release

C Busuioc, GO Isopencu, IM Deleanu - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Featured Application The developed matrices could be used as sustainable drug delivery
systems (transdermal patches). Mathematical modeling provides numerical evaluation of the …