Advanced collagen‐based biomaterials for regenerative biomedicine

K Lin, D Zhang, MH Macedo, W Cui… - Advanced Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In recent decades, collagen is one of the most versatile biomaterials used in biomedical
applications, mostly due to its biomimetic and structural composition in the extracellular …

Biodegradable polymer nanocomposites for ligament/tendon tissue engineering

M Silva, FN Ferreira, NM Alves, MC Paiva - Journal of Nanobiotechnology, 2020 - Springer
Ligaments and tendons are fibrous tissues with poor vascularity and limited regeneration
capacity. Currently, a ligament/tendon injury often require a surgical procedure using auto-or …

Biomaterials in tendon and skeletal muscle tissue engineering: current trends and challenges

M Beldjilali-Labro, A Garcia Garcia, F Farhat, F Bedoui… - Materials, 2018 - mdpi.com
Tissue engineering is a promising approach to repair tendon and muscle when natural
healing fails. Biohybrid constructs obtained after cells' seeding and culture in dedicated …

Biomimetic reduced graphene oxide coated collagen scaffold for in situ bone regeneration

S Bahrami, N Baheiraei, M Shahrezaee - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
A variety of bone-related diseases and injures and limitations of traditional regeneration
methods require new tissue substitutes. Tissue engineering and regeneration combined …

Silk materials at the convergence of science, sustainability, healthcare, and technology

G Guidetti, L d'Amone, T Kim, G Matzeu… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Over the past few decades, Bombyx mori silk fibroin has become a ubiquitous material for
applications ranging from biomedical devices to optics, electronics, and sensing, while also …

A review of recent advances in natural polymer-based scaffolds for musculoskeletal tissue engineering

J Fan, K Abedi-Dorcheh, A Sadat Vaziri… - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
The musculoskeletal (MS) system consists of bone, cartilage, tendon, ligament, and skeletal
muscle, which forms the basic framework of the human body. This system plays a vital role in …

Biocompatible graphene oxide–collagen composite aerogel for enhanced stiffness and in situ bone regeneration

S Liu, C Zhou, S Mou, J Li, M Zhou, Y Zeng… - Materials Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The developing bone graft substitutes have become a promising strategy for repairing large
bone loss. Aerogels that made from natural polymers were widely investigated for synthetic …

Biomaterials strategies to balance inflammation and tenogenesis for tendon repair

J Hou, R Yang, I Vuong, F Li, J Kong, HQ Mao - Acta biomaterialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Adult tendon tissue demonstrates a limited regenerative capacity, and the natural repair
process leaves fibrotic scar tissue with inferior mechanical properties. Surgical treatment is …

Electrospun thymosin Beta-4 loaded PLGA/PLA nanofiber/microfiber hybrid yarns for tendon tissue engineering application

S Wu, R Zhou, F Zhou, PN Streubel, S Chen… - Materials Science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Microfiber yarns (MY) have been widely employed to construct tendon tissue grafts.
However, suboptimal ultrastructure and inappropriate environments for cell interactions limit …

[HTML][HTML] Crimped nanofiber scaffold mimicking tendon-to-bone interface for fatty-infiltrated massive rotator cuff repair

L Wang, T Zhu, Y Kang, J Zhang, J Du, H Gao, S Chen… - Bioactive Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Electrospun fibers, with proven ability to promote tissue regeneration, are widely being
explored for rotator cuff repairing. However, without post treatment, the microstructure of the …