Urinary tissue engineering: challenges and opportunities

A Singh, TJ Bivalacqua, N Sopko - Sexual medicine reviews, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Introduction In this review, we discuss major advancements and common challenges in
constructing and regenerating a neo-urinary conduit (NUC). First, we focus on the need for …

Tubular collagen scaffolds with radial elasticity for hollow organ regeneration

LR Versteegden, KA Van Kampen, HP Janke… - Acta biomaterialia, 2017 - Elsevier
Tubular collagen scaffolds have been used for the repair of damaged hollow organs in
regenerative medicine, but they generally lack the ability to reversibly expand in radial …

Conductive Electronic Skin Coupled with Iontophoresis for Sensitive Skin Treatment

D Song, W Tao, Z Tang, X Hu - Journal of Drug Delivery Science and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Sensitive skin (SS) disease usually affects the life quality of patients and even causes life-
threatening issues. Non-invasive transdermal drug delivery system (TDDS) coupled with …

A simple and effective approach to produce tubular polysaccharide‐based hydrogel scaffolds

FC Bombaldi de Souza, DB Camasão… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The production of porous tubular scaffolds is of great interest in the field of tissue
engineering, given the existence of several tubular structures in the human body. In this …

Effectively remove p-arsanilic acid from water over amphiphilic amino modified collagen fiber

X Ye, H Lin, R Chi, Z Guo, Y Lv, C Lin, Y Liu, W Luo - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Efficient and rapid removal of p-arsanilic acid (p-ASA) in water is very important in
environmental protection and human health, however it is still a severe challenge in actual …

[HTML][HTML] A collagen plug with shape memory to seal iatrogenic fetal membrane defects after fetoscopic surgery

RTC Meuwese, EMM Versteeg, J van Drongelen… - Bioactive Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Iatrogenic preterm premature rupture of fetal membranes (iPPROM) after fetal surgery
remains a strong trigger for premature birth. As fetal membrane defects do not heal …

Initial Steps towards Spatiotemporal Signaling through Biomaterials Using Click-to-Release Chemistry

M Gansevoort, J Merx, EMM Versteeg, I Vuckovic… - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The process of wound healing is a tightly controlled cascade of events, where severe skin
wounds are resolved via scar tissue. This fibrotic response may be diminished by applying …

Self‐expandable tubular collagen implants

LRM Versteegden, M Ter Meer… - Journal of Tissue …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Collagen has been extensively used as a biomaterial, yet for tubular organ repair, synthetic
polymers or metals (eg, stents) are typically used. In this study, we report a novel type of …

[HTML][HTML] Thermoelectric Freeze-Casting of Biopolymer Blends: Fabrication and Characterization of Large-Size Scaffolds for Nerve Tissue Engineering Applications

V Monfette, W Choinière, C Godbout-Lavoie… - Journal of Functional …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Peripheral nerve injuries (PNIs) are detrimental to the quality of life of affected individuals.
Patients are often left with life-long ailments that affect them physically and psychologically …

Labeling of collagen type I templates with a naturally derived contrast agent for noninvasive MR imaging in soft tissue engineering

HP Janke, N Güvener, W Dou… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In vivo monitoring of tissue‐engineered constructs is important to assess their integrity,
remodeling, and degradation. However, this is challenging when the contrast with …