Silk fibroin as a functional biomaterial for tissue engineering

W Sun, DA Gregory, MA Tomeh, X Zhao - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Tissue engineering (TE) is the approach to combine cells with scaffold materials and
appropriate growth factors to regenerate or replace damaged or degenerated tissue or …

Bioactive polymeric scaffolds for tissue engineering

S Stratton, NB Shelke, K Hoshino, S Rudraiah… - Bioactive materials, 2016 - Elsevier
A variety of engineered scaffolds have been created for tissue engineering using polymers,
ceramics and their composites. Biomimicry has been adopted for majority of the three …

Emerging biofabrication strategies for engineering complex tissue constructs

RD Pedde, B Mirani, A Navaei, T Styan… - Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The demand for organ transplantation and repair, coupled with a shortage of available
donors, poses an urgent clinical need for the development of innovative treatment strategies …

Nanofibers for biomedical and healthcare applications

R Rasouli, A Barhoum, M Bechelany… - Macromolecular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Unique features of nanofibers provide enormous potential in the field of biomedical and
healthcare applications. Many studies have proven the extreme potential of nanofibers in …

Silk fibroin for skin injury repair: where do things stand?

M Gholipourmalekabadi, S Sapru… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2020 - Elsevier
Several synthetic and natural materials are used in soft tissue engineering and regenerative
medicine with varying degrees of success. Among them, silkworm silk protein fibroin, a …

A review of key challenges of electrospun scaffolds for tissue‐engineering applications

S Khorshidi, A Solouk, H Mirzadeh… - Journal of tissue …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Tissue engineering holds great promise to develop functional constructs resembling the
structural organization of native tissues to improve or replace biological functions, with the …

Tendon injury: from biology to tendon repair

G Nourissat, F Berenbaum, D Duprez - Nature Reviews Rheumatology, 2015 - nature.com
Tendon is a crucial component of the musculoskeletal system. Tendons connect muscle to
bone and transmit forces to produce motion. Chronic and acute tendon injuries are very …

Current progress in tendon and ligament tissue engineering

WL Lim, LL Liau, MH Ng, SR Chowdhury… - Tissue engineering and …, 2019 - Springer
Background: Tendon and ligament injuries accounted for 30% of all musculoskeletal
consultations with 4 million new incidences worldwide each year and thus imposed a …

Biophysical and biochemical cues of biomaterials guide mesenchymal stem cell behaviors

J Li, Y Liu, Y Zhang, B Yao, Enhejirigala, Z Li… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have been widely used in the fields of tissue engineering
and regenerative medicine due to their self-renewal capabilities and multipotential …

Electrospun nanofibers for tissue engineering with drug loading and release

K Ye, H Kuang, Z You, Y Morsi, X Mo - Pharmaceutics, 2019 - mdpi.com
Electrospinning technologies have been applied in the field of tissue engineering as
materials, with nanoscale-structures and high porosity, can be easily prepared via this …