Agarose-based biomaterials for tissue engineering

P Zarrintaj, S Manouchehri, Z Ahmadi, MR Saeb… - Carbohydrate …, 2018 - Elsevier
Agarose is a natural polysaccharide polymer having unique characteristics that give reason
to consider it for tissue engineering applications. Special characteristics of agarose such as …

Agarose-based biomaterials for advanced drug delivery

MK Yazdi, A Taghizadeh, M Taghizadeh… - Journal of Controlled …, 2020 - Elsevier
Agarose is a prominent marine polysaccharide representing reversible thermogelling
behavior, outstanding mechanical properties, high bioactivity, and switchable chemical …

Recent progress on polysaccharide-based hydrogels for controlled delivery of therapeutic biomolecules

MI Rial-Hermida, A Rey-Rico… - ACS Biomaterials …, 2021 - ACS Publications
A plethora of applications using polysaccharides have been developed in recent years due
to their availability as well as their frequent nontoxicity and biodegradability. These polymers …

Minimally invasive and regenerative therapeutics

N Ashammakhi, S Ahadian, MA Darabi… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in biomaterial synthesis and fabrication, stem cell biology, bioimaging,
microsurgery procedures, and microscale technologies have made minimally invasive …

Thermoresponsive gels

MJ Taylor, P Tomlins, TS Sahota - Gels, 2017 - mdpi.com
Thermoresponsive gelling materials constructed from natural and synthetic polymers can be
used to provide triggered action and therefore customised products such as drug delivery …

Coating strategies using layer‐by‐layer deposition for cell encapsulation

MB Oliveira, J Hatami, JF Mano - Chemistry–An Asian Journal, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The layer‐by‐layer (LbL) deposition technique is widely used to develop multilayered films
based on the directed assembly of complementary materials. In the last decade, thin …

Characterizing the degradation of alginate hydrogel for use in multilumen scaffolds for spinal cord repair

D Shahriari, J Koffler, DA Lynam… - … Research Part A, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Alginate was studied as a degradable nerve guidance scaffold material in vitro and in vivo.
In vitro degradation rates were determined using rheology to measure the change in shear …

Axonal tract reconstruction using a tissue-engineered nigrostriatal pathway in a rat model of Parkinson's disease

LA Struzyna, KD Browne, JC Burrell… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Parkinson's disease (PD) affects 1–2% of people over 65, causing significant morbidity
across a progressive disease course. The classic PD motor deficits are caused by the …

Modeling angiogenesis with micro-and nanotechnology

LJ Chen, H Kaji - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Angiogenesis plays an important role not only in the growth and regeneration of tissues in
humans but also in pathological conditions such as inflammation, degenerative disease and …

Green approaches for extraction, chemical modification and processing of marine polysaccharides for biomedical applications

MMA Sacramento, J Borges, FJS Correia… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Over the past few decades, natural-origin polysaccharides have received increasing
attention across different fields of application, including biomedicine and biotechnology …