Recent trends in the application of widely used natural and synthetic polymer nanocomposites in bone tissue regeneration

A Bharadwaz, AC Jayasuriya - Materials Science and Engineering: C, 2020 - Elsevier
The goal of a biomaterial is to support the bone tissue regeneration process at the defect site
and eventually degrade in situ and get replaced with the newly generated bone tissue …

Alginate as a promising biopolymer in drug delivery and wound healing: A review of the state-of-the-art

MAS Abourehab, RR Rajendran, A Singh… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Biopolymeric nanoparticulate systems hold favorable carrier properties for active delivery.
The enhancement in the research interest in alginate formulations in biomedical and …

Alginate: current use and future perspectives in pharmaceutical and biomedical applications

M Szekalska, A Puciłowska… - … journal of polymer …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last decades, alginates, natural multifunctional polymers, have increasingly drawn
attention as attractive compounds in the biomedical and pharmaceutical fields due to their …

Alginate nanoparticles for drug delivery and targeting

P Severino, CF da Silva, LN Andrade… - Current …, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
Nanotechnology refers to the control, manipulation, study and manufacture of structures and
devices at the nanometer size range. The small size, customized surface, improved solubility …

Natural polymers for the microencapsulation of cells

L Gasperini, JF Mano, RL Reis - Journal of the royal …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The encapsulation of living mammalian cells within a semi-permeable hydrogel matrix is an
attractive procedure for many biomedical and biotechnological applications, such as …

Natural polysaccharide nanomaterials: an overview of their immunological properties

FG Torres, OP Troncoso, A Pisani, F Gatto… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Natural occurring polymers, or biopolymers, represent a huge part of our planet biomass.
They are formed by long chains of monomers of the same type or a combination of different …

Alginate: properties and biomedical applications

KY Lee, DJ Mooney - Progress in polymer science, 2012 - Elsevier
Alginate is a biomaterial that has found numerous applications in biomedical science and
engineering due to its favorable properties, including biocompatibility and ease of gelation …

Advances in research on the bioactivity of alginate oligosaccharides

M Xing, Q Cao, Y Wang, H Xiao, J Zhao, Q Zhang, A Ji… - Marine drugs, 2020 - mdpi.com
Alginate is a natural polysaccharide present in various marine brown seaweeds. Alginate
oligosaccharide (AOS) is a degradation product of alginate, which has received increasing …

Alginate derivatization: A review of chemistry, properties and applications

SN Pawar, KJ Edgar - Biomaterials, 2012 - Elsevier
Alginates have become an extremely important family of polysaccharides because of their
utility in preparing hydrogels at mild pH and temperature conditions, suitable for sensitive …

An up‐to‐date review on alginate nanoparticles and nanofibers for biomedical and pharmaceutical applications

A Dodero, S Alberti, G Gaggero… - Advanced Materials …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Alginate is a naturally occurring polysaccharide commonly derived from brown algae cell
walls which possesses unique features that make it extremely promising for several …