Recent developments in chitosan hydrogels carrying natural bioactive compounds

NHN Do, QT Truong, PK Le, AC Ha - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2022 - Elsevier
Chitosan hydrogel is a smart and highly applicable drug delivery carrier because of its
nature, biocompatibility, biodegradability, and ability to encapsulate, carry and release the …

Applications of biopolymers for drugs and probiotics delivery

R Gheorghita, L Anchidin-Norocel, R Filip, M Dimian… - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Research regarding the use of biopolymers has been of great interest to scientists, the
medical community, and the industry especially in recent years. Initially used for food …

[HTML][HTML] Biopolymer-based composites for tissue engineering applications: A basis for future opportunities

P Zarrintaj, F Seidi, MY Azarfam, MK Yazdi… - Composites Part B …, 2023 - Elsevier
Biomimetic scaffolds supporting tissue regeneration are complex materials with
multifunctional characteristics. The unique biocompatibility and biodegradability of …

Review of applications and future prospects of stimuli-responsive hydrogel based on thermo-responsive biopolymers in drug delivery systems

S Chatterjee, PC Hui - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Some of thermo-responsive polysaccharides, namely, cellulose, xyloglucan, and chitosan,
and protein-like gelatin or elastin-like polypeptides can exhibit temperature dependent sol …

[HTML][HTML] Polymer based sustained drug delivery to the ocular posterior segment: barriers and future opportunities for the treatment of neovascular pathologies

RA Alshaikh, C Waeber, KB Ryan - Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
There is an increasing momentum in research and pharmaceutical industry communities to
design sustained, non-invasive delivery systems to treat chronic neovascular ocular …

Polysaccharide and polypeptide based injectable thermo-sensitive hydrogels for local biomedical applications

HF Darge, AT Andrgie, HC Tsai, JY Lai - International journal of biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Injectable thermo-responsive hydrogels have been studied for various biomedical
applications including; drug delivery, cell encapsulation, and tissue repairing. There are …

Controlled drug release from nanoengineered polysaccharides

IS Bayer - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Polysaccharides are naturally occurring complex molecules with exceptional
physicochemical properties and bioactivities. They originate from plant, animal, and …

Application of 3D-bioprinted nanocellulose and cellulose derivative-based bio-inks in bone and cartilage tissue engineering

L Lin, S Jiang, J Yang, J Qiu, X Jiao… - International …, 2022 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
212Three-dimensional (3D) printing is a modern, computer-aided, design-based technology
that allows the layer-by-layer deposition of 3D structures. Bioprinting, a 3D printing …

Thermo-responsive methylcellulose hydrogels: From design to applications as smart biomaterials

L Bonetti, L De Nardo, S Farè - Tissue Engineering Part B: Reviews, 2021 - liebertpub.com
Methylcellulose (MC) is an attractive material used to produce thermo-responsive hydrogels.
They undergo sol-gel transition when a critical temperature is reached, thus modifying their …

Recent advances in biodegradable polymers and their biological applications: a brief review

SO Alaswad, AS Mahmoud, P Arunachalam - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
The rising significance of the field of biopolymers has driven the rapid progress of this
distinctive class of polymeric materials in the past decades. Biodegradable polymers have …