Natural polymers used in the dressing materials for wound healing: Past, present and future

B Sheokand, M Vats, A Kumar… - Journal of Polymer …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wound healing is a complicated system that necessitates an appropriate environment to aid
healing. Wound dressing is among the most important external variables in wound repair …

Nanofiber scaffolds as drug delivery systems promoting wound healing

Z Jiang, Z Zheng, S Yu, Y Gao, J Ma, L Huang, L Yang - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Nanofiber scaffolds have emerged as a revolutionary drug delivery platform for promoting
wound healing, due to their unique properties, including high surface area, interconnected …

Polysaccharides from red seaweeds: Effect of extraction methods on physicochemical characteristics and antioxidant activities

AD Premarathna, TAE Ahmed, G Kulshreshtha… - Food …, 2024 - Elsevier
Seaweed polysaccharides are reported to possess biological and medicinal properties.
Specifically, the antioxidant activity of seaweed extracts is the subject of intensive research …

Recent advances in exploiting carrageenans as a versatile functional material for promising biomedical applications

F Liu, G Duan, H Yang - International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2023 - Elsevier
Carrageenans are a group of biopolymers widely found in red seaweeds. Commercial
carrageenans have been traditionally used as emulsifiers, stabilizers, and thickening and …

Structure-activity relationships of bioactive polysaccharides extracted from macroalgae towards biomedical application: A review

Y Fu, H Jiao, J Sun, CO Okoye, H Zhang, Y Li, X Lu… - Carbohydrate …, 2023 - Elsevier
Macroalgae are valuable and structurally diverse sources of bioactive compounds among
marine resources. The cell walls of macroalgae are rich in polysaccharides which exhibit a …

Advances in polysaccharides for probiotic delivery: Properties, methods, and applications

Q Lin, Y Si, F Zhou, W Hao, P Zhang, P Jiang… - Carbohydrate …, 2023 - Elsevier
Probiotics are essential to improve the health of the host, whereas maintaining the viability of
probiotics in harsh environments remains a challenge. Polysaccharides have non-toxicity …

Immunomodulation by xylan and carrageenan-type polysaccharides from red seaweeds: Anti-inflammatory, wound healing, cytoprotective, and anticoagulant activities

AD Premarathna, TAE Ahmed, V Rjabovs… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The immunomodulatory properties of the polysaccharides (carrageenan, xylan) from
Chondrus crispus (CC), Ahnfeltiopsis devoniensis (AD), Sarcodiotheca gaudichaudii (SG) …

Stimuli-responsive polysaccharide-based smart hydrogels for diabetic wound healing: Design aspects, preparation methods and regulatory perspectives

T Kolipaka, G Pandey, N Abraham… - Carbohydrate …, 2023 - Elsevier
Diabetes adversely affects wound-healing responses, leading to the development of chronic
infected wounds. Such wound microenvironment is characterized by hyperglycaemia …

The effect of κ-carrageenan and ursolic acid on the physicochemical properties of the electrospun nanofibrous mat for biomedical application

MH Al-Musawi, E Mahmoudi, MM Kamil… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wound dressing materials such as nanofiber (NF) mats have gained a lot of attention in
recent years owing to their wonderful effect on accelerating the healing process and …

[HTML][HTML] Gellan gum-based bi-polymeric hydrogel scaffolds loaded with Rosuvastatin calcium: A useful tool for tendon tissue regeneration

IM Adel, MF ElMeligy, MS Amer… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Statins have been long used in tissue engineering, besides their marketed hypolipidemic
benefits. The aim of this research was to sustain the release of rosuvastatin calcium from bi …