Multifunctional materials for implantable and wearable photonic healthcare devices

GH Lee, H Moon, H Kim, GH Lee, W Kwon… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Numerous light-based diagnostic and therapeutic devices are routinely used in the clinic.
These devices have a familiar look as items plugged in the wall or placed at patients' …

Biological responses to physicochemical properties of biomaterial surface

M Rahmati, EA Silva, JE Reseland… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Biomedical scientists use chemistry-driven processes found in nature as an inspiration to
design biomaterials as promising diagnostic tools, therapeutic solutions, or tissue …

Functional and biomimetic materials for engineering of the three-dimensional cell microenvironment

G Huang, F Li, X Zhao, Y Ma, Y Li, M Lin, G Jin… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The cell microenvironment has emerged as a key determinant of cell behavior and function
in development, physiology, and pathophysiology. The extracellular matrix (ECM) within the …

Titanium and protein adsorption: An overview of mechanisms and effects of surface features

J Barberi, S Spriano - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Titanium and its alloys, specially Ti6Al4V, are among the most employed materials in
orthopedic and dental implants. Cells response and osseointegration of implant devices are …

Inflammation and biomaterials: role of the immune response in bone regeneration by inorganic scaffolds

JM Sadowska, MP Ginebra - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The regulatory role of the immune system in maintaining bone homeostasis and restoring its
functionality, when disturbed due to trauma or injury, has become evident in recent years …

Osteoimmune regulation underlies oral implant osseointegration and its perturbation

T Albrektsson, P Tengvall, L Amengual, P Coli… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In the field of biomaterials, an endosseous implant is now recognized as an
osteoimmunomodulatory but not bioinert biomaterial. Scientific advances in bone cell …

Chemical functionality of multidomain peptide hydrogels governs early host immune response

TL Lopez-Silva, DG Leach, A Azares, IC Li… - Biomaterials, 2020 - Elsevier
Multidomain Peptide (MDP) hydrogels are nanofibrous materials with many potential
biomedical applications. The peptide sequence design of these materials offers high …

Nanostructured dense collagen‐polyester composite hydrogels as amphiphilic platforms for drug delivery

X Wang, O Ronsin, B Gravez, N Farman… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Associating collagen with biodegradable hydrophobic polyesters constitutes a promising
method for the design of medicated biomaterials. Current collagen‐polyester composite …

Modulating the foreign body response of implants for diabetes treatment

BN Kharbikar, GS Chendke, TA Desai - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Diabetes Mellitus is a group of diseases characterized by high blood glucose levels due to
patients' inability to produce sufficient insulin. Current interventions often require implants …

Immune response to silk sericin–fibroin composites: potential immunogenic elements and alternatives for immunomodulation

BO Ode Boni, BM Bakadia, AR Osi, Z Shi… - Macromolecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The unique properties of silk proteins (SPs), particularly silk sericin (SS) and silk fibroin (SF),
have attracted attention in the design of scaffolds for tissue engineering over the past …