Nanostructured particles assembled from natural building blocks for advanced therapies

Y Ju, H Liao, JJ Richardson, J Guo… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Advanced treatments based on immune system manipulation, gene transcription and
regulation, specific organ and cell targeting, and/or photon energy conversion have …

Functional nucleic acid-based hydrogels for bioanalytical and biomedical applications

J Li, L Mo, CH Lu, T Fu, HH Yang, W Tan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Hydrogels are crosslinked hydrophilic polymers that can absorb a large amount of water. By
their hydrophilic, biocompatible and highly tunable nature, hydrogels can be tailored for …

Fish gelatin: The novel potential applications

LC Lv, QY Huang, W Ding, XH Xiao, HY Zhang… - Journal of Functional …, 2019 - Elsevier
Fish gelatin is a class of biopolymers acquired from the hydrolysis of fish collagen, and it
contains abundant amino acids for nutritive uses as dietary products. The natural …

Gelatin carriers for drug and cell delivery in tissue engineering

M Santoro, AM Tatara, AG Mikos - Journal of controlled release, 2014 - Elsevier
The ability of gelatin to form complexes with different drugs has been investigated for
controlled release applications. Gelatin parameters, such as crosslinking density and …

Calcium carbonate nanoparticles as cancer drug delivery system

S Maleki Dizaj, M Barzegar-Jalali… - Expert opinion on …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Calcium carbonate (CaCO3) has broad biomedical utilizations owing to its
availability, low cost, safety, biocompatibility, pH-sensitivity and slow biodegradability …

Biomolecules-derived biomaterials

LP Datta, S Manchineella, T Govindaraju - Biomaterials, 2020 - Elsevier
Human civilization has witnessed the use of materials-derived from biomolecules of plants
and animal origin for biomedical applications since ancient era. In recent years, precision …

Beta casein-micelle as a nano vehicle for solubility enhancement of curcumin; food industry application

M Esmaili, SM Ghaffari, Z Moosavi-Movahedi… - LWT-food science and …, 2011 - Elsevier
Curcumin is a potent anticancer and antioxidant natural polyphenol poorly soluble in
aqueous solutions. Beta-casein (B-CN), an amphiphilic self-assembling protein that can …

Gelatin as a bioactive nanodelivery system for functional food applications

Y Tan, Y Zi, J Peng, C Shi, Y Zheng, J Zhong - Food Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Gelatin has long been used as an encapsulant agent in the pharmaceutical and biomedical
industries because of its low cost, wide availability, biocompatibility, and degradability …

Polymeric drug delivery systems for localized cancer chemotherapy

R De Souza, P Zahedi, CJ Allen, M Piquette-Miller - Drug delivery, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Cancer has become one of the most difficult health challenges of our time, accounting for
millions of deaths yearly. Systemic chemotherapy is the most common therapeutic approach; …

Human gelatin tissue-adhesive hydrogels prepared by enzyme-mediated biosynthesis of DOPA and Fe 3+ ion crosslinking

YC Choi, JS Choi, YJ Jung, YW Cho - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Gelatin is extensively used as a biomaterial for diverse pharmaceutical and medical
applications due to its excellent biocompatibility and biodegradability. Here we present bio …