Polycaprolactone-based biomaterials for tissue engineering and drug delivery: Current scenario and challenges

D Mondal, M Griffith… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Recently, poly (є-caprolactone)(PCL) has gained a lot of attention, and shown
great potential in biomedical applications. Among synthetic polymers, PCL is one of the …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanism of polymer composite-based nanomaterial for biomedical applications

NH Solangi, RR Karri, NM Mubarak… - Advanced Industrial and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Recent developments in nanomaterials have come to extensive use in various fields,
especially in the biomedical industry. Numerous significant obstacles still need to be …

Electrically conductive materials: Opportunities and challenges in tissue engineering

A Saberi, F Jabbari, P Zarrintaj, MR Saeb, M Mozafari - Biomolecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
Tissue engineering endeavors to regenerate tissues and organs through appropriate
cellular and molecular interactions at biological interfaces. To this aim, bio-mimicking …

Preparation and characterization of polyurethane/chitosan/CNT nanofibrous scaffold for cardiac tissue engineering

P Ahmadi, N Nazeri, MA Derakhshan… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Myocardial infarction of cardiomyocytes is a leading cause of heart failure (HF) worldwide.
Since heart has very limited regeneration capacity, cardiac tissue engineering (TE) to …

Electrically conductive gold nanoparticle-chitosan thermosensitive hydrogels for cardiac tissue engineering

P Baei, S Jalili-Firoozinezhad, S Rajabi-Zeleti… - Materials Science and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Injectable hydrogels that resemble electromechanical properties of the myocardium are
crucial for cardiac tissue engineering prospects. We have developed a facile approach that …

[HTML][HTML] Biofabrication methods for reconstructing extracellular matrix mimetics

A Aazmi, D Zhang, C Mazzaglia, M Yu, Z Wang… - Bioactive Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
In the human body, almost all cells interact with extracellular matrices (ECMs), which have
tissue and organ-specific compositions and architectures. These ECMs not only function as …

Fibers for hearts: A critical review on electrospinning for cardiac tissue engineering

M Kitsara, O Agbulut, D Kontziampasis, Y Chen… - Acta biomaterialia, 2017 - Elsevier
Cardiac cell therapy holds a real promise for improving heart function and especially of the
chronically failing myocardium. Embedding cells into 3D biodegradable scaffolds may better …

Electrically conductive nanomaterials for cardiac tissue engineering

K Ashtari, H Nazari, H Ko, P Tebon, M Akhshik… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2019 - Elsevier
Patient deaths resulting from cardiovascular diseases are increasing across the globe,
posing the greatest risk to patients in developed countries. Myocardial infarction, as a result …

Conductive biomaterials for cardiac repair: A review

Y Li, L Wei, L Lan, Y Gao, Q Zhang, H Dawit, J Mao… - Acta biomaterialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Myocardial infarction (MI) is one of the fatal diseases in humans. Its incidence is constantly
increasing annually all over the world. The problem is accompanied by the limited …

[HTML][HTML] Advanced polymer-based composites and structures for biomedical applications

Z Guo, AA Poot, DW Grijpma - European Polymer Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
A fast increasing demand of medical products based on biomaterials and tissue engineering
has led to an extensive growth in biomedical research in the past two decades. A highly …