Polymeric hydrogel systems as emerging biomaterial platforms to enable hemostasis and wound healing

S Pourshahrestani, E Zeimaran… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Broad interest in developing new hemostatic technologies arises from unmet needs in
mitigating uncontrolled hemorrhage in emergency, surgical, and battlefield settings …

Biomaterials for the delivery of growth factors and other therapeutic agents in tissue engineering approaches to bone regeneration

CJ Kowalczewski, JM Saul - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Bone fracture followed by delayed or non-union typically requires bone graft intervention.
Autologous bone grafts remain the clinical “gold standard”. Recently, synthetic bone grafts …

Natural polymers in wound healing: From academic studies to commercial products

M Tavakoli, S Labbaf, M Mirhaj, S Salehi… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Natural biopolymers (carbohydrates and proteins) are the family of natural polymers that are
widely used in wound healing. This is due to their biocompatibility and their chemical …

Feather keratin hydrogel for wound repair: preparation, healing effect and biocompatibility evaluation

J Wang, S Hao, T Luo, Z Cheng, W Li, F Gao… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2017 - Elsevier
Keratins are highly attractive for wound healing due to their inherent bioactivity,
biocompatibility and physical properties. However, nearly all wound healing studies have …

Keratinous materials: Structures and functions in biomedical applications

M Rajabi, A Ali, M McConnell, J Cabral - Materials Science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Keratins are a family of fibrous proteins anticipated to possess wide-ranging biomedical
applications due to their abundance, physicochemical properties and intrinsic biological …

Silk as a potential candidate for bone tissue engineering

F Mottaghitalab, H Hosseinkhani… - Journal of controlled …, 2015 - Elsevier
Regeneration of large bone defects is challenging in the next few years because the age of
the population is growing. Bone grafting as a gold standard of bone repairing is limited as a …

A review on carrier systems for bone morphogenetic protein‐2

V Agrawal, M Sinha - … of Biomedical Materials Research Part B …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT Bone morphogenetic protein‐2 (BMP‐2) has unique bone regeneration
property. The powerful osteoinductive nature makes it considered as second line of therapy …

Comparative study of keratin extraction from human hair

V Agarwal, AG Panicker, S Indrakumar… - International journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Keratin has been attracting interest due to its stability against enzymatic degradation thereby
allowing more predictable degradation profile for tissue regeneration applications. While the …

Tunable keratin hydrogels for controlled erosion and growth factor delivery

TR Ham, RT Lee, S Han, S Haque, Y Vodovotz… - …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Tunable erosion of polymeric materials is an important aspect of tissue engineering for
reasons that include cell infiltration, controlled release of therapeutic agents, and ultimately …

Endowing polyetheretherketone implants with osseointegration properties: in situ construction of patterned nanorod arrays

S Zhang, Z Feng, Y Hu, D Zhao, X Guo, F Du, N Wang… - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Polyetheretherketone (PEEK) is widely used in orthopedic and craniomaxillofacial surgeries
as it exhibits excellent biocompatibility, mechanical property, and chemical stability …