Biomaterials based strategies for skeletal muscle tissue engineering: existing technologies and future trends

TH Qazi, DJ Mooney, M Pumberger, S Geissler… - Biomaterials, 2015 - Elsevier
Skeletal muscles have a robust capacity to regenerate, but under compromised conditions,
such as severe trauma, the loss of muscle functionality is inevitable. Research carried out in …

An overview of injectable polymeric hydrogels for tissue engineering

A Sivashanmugam, RA Kumar, MV Priya… - European Polymer …, 2015 - Elsevier
The desire and need to minimize traditional open surgeries is gearing up as it could reduce
the healthcare expenses and improve the recovery time for the patients. Minimal invasive …

Engineering the regenerative microenvironment with biomaterials

JJ Rice, MM Martino, L De Laporte… - Advanced …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Modern synthetic biomaterials are being designed to integrate bioactive ligands within
hydrogel scaffolds for cells to respond and assimilate within the matrix. These advanced …

[HTML][HTML] Stable corneal regeneration four years after implantation of a cell-free recombinant human collagen scaffold

P Fagerholm, NS Lagali, JA Ong, K Merrett… - Biomaterials, 2014 - Elsevier
We developed cell-free implants, comprising carbodiimide crosslinked recombinant human
collagen (RHC), to enable corneal regeneration by endogenous cell recruitment, to address …

Naturally derived and synthetic scaffolds for skeletal muscle reconstruction

MT Wolf, CL Dearth, SB Sonnenberg, EG Loboa… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2015 - Elsevier
Skeletal muscle tissue has an inherent capacity for regeneration following injury. However,
severe trauma, such as volumetric muscle loss, overwhelms these natural muscle repair …

Engineering biomimetic materials for skeletal muscle repair and regeneration

KH Nakayama, M Shayan… - Advanced healthcare …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Although skeletal muscle is highly regenerative following injury or disease, endogenous self‐
regeneration is severely impaired in conditions of volume traumatic muscle loss …

[HTML][HTML] Injectable skeletal muscle matrix hydrogel promotes neovascularization and muscle cell infiltration in a hindlimb ischemia model

JA DeQuach, JE Lin, C Cam, D Hu… - European cells & …, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Peripheral artery disease (PAD) currently affects approximately 27 million patients in Europe
and North America, and if untreated, may progress to the stage of critical limb ischemia …

Toward in situ tissue engineering: chemokine-guided stem cell recruitment

K Andreas, M Sittinger, J Ringe - Trends in biotechnology, 2014 - cell.com
Chemokines are potent stem cell homing and mobilization factors, and artificially increasing
the concentrations of specific chemokines at injury sites is an up-to-date strategy to …

Biomimetic delivery with micro‐and nanoparticles

SC Balmert, SR Little - Advanced materials, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The nascent field of biomimetic delivery with micro‐and nanoparticles (MNP) has advanced
considerably in recent years. Drawing inspiration from the ways that cells communicate in …

Sustained delivery of SDF-1α from heparin-based hydrogels to attract circulating pro-angiogenic cells

S Prokoph, E Chavakis, KR Levental, A Zieris… - Biomaterials, 2012 - Elsevier
Enrichment of progenitor cells in ischemic tissue has become a promising therapeutic
strategy in the treatment of myocardial infarction. Towards this aim, we report a biology …