Hyaluronic acid: A review on its biology, aspects of drug delivery, route of administrations and a special emphasis on its approved marketed products and recent …

S Vasvani, P Kulkarni, D Rawtani - International journal of biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Hyaluronic acid (HA) is a large non-sulphated glycosaminoglycan that is an important
component of extracellular matrix (ECM) and a biodegradable polymer. Due to a variation in …

Progress in chitin analytics

MV Tsurkan, A Voronkina, Y Khrunyk… - Carbohydrate …, 2021 - Elsevier
Chitin is the second most abundant biopolymer and functions as the main structural
component in a variety of living organisms. In nature, chitin rarely occurs in a pure form, but …

Gelatin‐polysaccharide composite scaffolds for 3D cell culture and tissue engineering: towards natural therapeutics

S Afewerki, A Sheikhi, S Kannan… - Bioengineering & …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Gelatin is a promising material as scaffold with therapeutic and regenerative characteristics
due to its chemical similarities to the extracellular matrix (ECM) in the native tissues …

Cationic, anionic and neutral polysaccharides for skin tissue engineering and wound healing applications

H Nosrati, M Khodaei, Z Alizadeh… - International journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Today, chronic wound care and management can be regarded as a clinically critical issue.
However, the limitations of current approaches for wound healing have encouraged …

Electroactive biomaterials for facilitating bone defect repair under pathological conditions

BC Heng, Y Bai, X Li, LW Lim, W Li, Z Ge… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Bone degeneration associated with various diseases is increasing due to rapid aging,
sedentary lifestyles, and unhealthy diets. Living bone tissue has bioelectric properties critical …

Recent advances of chitosan-based polymers in biomedical applications and environmental protection

S Fatullayeva, D Tagiyev, N Zeynalov… - Journal of Polymer …, 2022 - Springer
Interest in polymer-based biomaterials such as chitosan and its modifications and also the
methods of their application in various fields of science is uninterruptedly growing. Owing to …

Decellularized matrices in regenerative medicine

DA Taylor, LC Sampaio, Z Ferdous, AS Gobin, LJ Taite - Acta biomaterialia, 2018 - Elsevier
Of all biologic matrices, decellularized extracellular matrix (dECM) has emerged as a
promising tool used either alone or when combined with other biologics in the fields of tissue …

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 …

A review of bioactive plant polysaccharides: Biological activities, functionalization, and biomedical applications

J Liu, S Willför, C Xu - Bioactive Carbohydrates and Dietary Fibre, 2015 - Elsevier
Natural polysaccharides from different sources have long been studied and widely used in
different areas, such as food and feed, medicine and pharmaceutics, and in papermaking. In …

Recent advances in chitosan-based materials; The synthesis, modifications and biomedical applications

Y Iqbal, I Ahmed, MF Irfan, SAS Chatha, M Zubair… - Carbohydrate …, 2023 - Elsevier
The attention to polymer-based biomaterials, for instance, chitosan and its derivatives, as
well as the techniques for using them in numerous scientific domains, is continuously rising …