Chitosan based hydrogels and their applications for drug delivery in wound dressings: A review

H Hamedi, S Moradi, SM Hudson, AE Tonelli - Carbohydrate polymers, 2018 - Elsevier
Advanced development of chitosan hydrogels has led to new drug delivery systems that can
release their active ingredients in response to environmental stimuli. This review considers …

Skin tissue engineering: wound healing based on stem-cell-based therapeutic strategies

A Nourian Dehkordi, F Mirahmadi Babaheydari… - Stem cell research & …, 2019 - Springer
Normal wound healing is a dynamic and complex multiple phase process involving
coordinated interactions between growth factors, cytokines, chemokines, and various cells …

Chitosan as a starting material for wound healing applications

V Patrulea, V Ostafe, G Borchard, O Jordan - European Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Chitosan and its derivatives have attracted great attention due to their properties beneficial
for application to wound healing. The main focus of the present review is to summarize …

Chitin and chitosan in selected biomedical applications

A Anitha, S Sowmya, PTS Kumar, S Deepthi… - Progress in polymer …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Chitin (CT), the well-known natural biopolymer and chitosan (CS)(bio-based or
“artificial polymer”) are non-toxic, biodegradable and biocompatible in nature. The …

Crab vs. mushroom: A review of crustacean and fungal chitin in wound treatment

M Jones, M Kujundzic, S John, A Bismarck - Marine Drugs, 2020 - mdpi.com
Chitin and its derivative chitosan are popular constituents in wound-treatment technologies
due to their nanoscale fibrous morphology and attractive biomedical properties that …

Current views on fungal chitin/chitosan, human chitinases, food preservation, glucans, pectins and inulin: A tribute to Henri Braconnot, precursor of the carbohydrate …

RAA Muzzarelli, J Boudrant, D Meyer, N Manno… - Carbohydrate …, 2012 - Elsevier
Two hundred years ago, Henri Braconnot described a polysaccharide containing a
substantial percent of nitrogen, later to be called chitin: that discovery stemmed from …

Tissue scaffolds for skin wound healing and dermal reconstruction

SP Zhong, YZ Zhang, CT Lim - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
One of the major applications of tissue‐engineered skin substitutes for wound healing is to
promote the healing of cutaneous wounds. In this respect, many important clinical …

Bone tissue engineering therapeutics: controlled drug delivery in three-dimensional scaffolds

V Mouriño, AR Boccaccini - Journal of the Royal Society …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
This paper provides an extensive overview of published studies on the development and
applications of three-dimensional bone tissue engineering (TE) scaffolds with potential …

Fungal exopolysaccharides: Properties, sources, modifications, and biomedical applications

M Hamidi, OV Okoro, PB Milan, MR Khalili… - Carbohydrate …, 2022 - Elsevier
Fungal exopolysaccharides (EPSs) are natural biopolymers with diverse potential
applications in the biomedical, packaging, cosmetic, and food industries. Fungal EPSs are …

Fabrication and characterization of a sponge-like asymmetric chitosan membrane as a wound dressing

FL Mi, SS Shyu, YB Wu, ST Lee, JY Shyong, RN Huang - Biomaterials, 2001 - Elsevier
A novel asymmetric chitosan membrane has been prepared by immersion–precipitation
phase-inversion method and evaluated as wound covering. This new type of chitosan …