A review on latest innovations in natural gums based hydrogels: Preparations & applications

S Ahmad, M Ahmad, K Manzoor, R Purwar… - International journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The prospective uses of natural gum polysaccharides in various aspects of food, water,
energy, biotechnology, environment and medicine industries, have garnered a great deal of …

Gellan gum in wound dressing scaffolds

Z Feketshane, S Alven, BA Aderibigbe - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Several factors, such as bacterial infections, underlying conditions, malnutrition, obesity,
ageing, and smoking are the most common issues that cause a delayed process of wound …

Extremophilic exopolysaccharides: A review and new perspectives on engineering strategies and applications

J Wang, DR Salem, RK Sani - Carbohydrate polymers, 2019 - Elsevier
Numerous microorganisms inhabiting harsh niches produce exopolysaccharides as a
significant strategy to survive in extreme conditions. The exopolysaccharides synthesized by …

Tissue engineering with gellan gum

LR Stevens, KJ Gilmore, GG Wallace - Biomaterials science, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Engineering complex tissues for research and clinical applications relies on high-
performance biomaterials that are amenable to biofabrication, maintain mechanical integrity …

Tree gum-based renewable materials: Sustainable applications in nanotechnology, biomedical and environmental fields

VVT Padil, S Wacławek, M Černík, RS Varma - Biotechnology advances, 2018 - Elsevier
The prospective uses of tree gum polysaccharides and their nanostructures in various
aspects of food, water, energy, biotechnology, environment and medicine industries, have …

Biological role of gellan gum in improving scaffold drug delivery, cell adhesion properties for tissue engineering applications

T Muthukumar, JE Song, G Khang - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
Over the past few decades, gellan gum (GG) has attracted substantial research interest in
several fields including biomedical and clinical applications. The GG has highly versatile …

Encapsulation of caffeine in sandwich structured Alyssum homolocarpum seed gum/PVA/gelatin nanofibers using electrospinning technique

F Kazemianrad, A Koocheki, B Ghorani - Food Hydrocolloids, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, multilayer sandwich nanofibers from Alyssum homolocarpum seed gum
(AHSG), polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and gelatin were created by electrospinning technique and …

Electrospun nanofibers–A promising solid in-situ gelling alternative for ocular drug delivery

B Göttel, JMS e Silva, CS de Oliveira… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
A serious problem of the treatment of eye diseases is the very short residence time of the
drug. The majority of the drug is cleared within few seconds due to the poor capability of the …

Basil seed mucilage as a new source for electrospinning: Production and physicochemical characterization

F Kurd, M Fathi, H Shekarchizadeh - International journal of biological …, 2017 - Elsevier
In this study nanofibers were prepared via the electrospinning technique by basil seed
mucilage (BSM) as a new source of hydrocolloid. Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) was used as an …

Essential oil—loaded nanofibers for pharmaceutical and biomedical applications: a systematic mini-review

I Partheniadis, G Stathakis, D Tsalavouti, J Heinämäki… - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Essential oils (EOs) have been widely exploited for their biological properties (mainly as
antimicrobials) in the food industry. Encapsulation of EOs has opened the way to the …