Silk biomaterials in wound healing and skin regeneration therapeutics: From bench to bedside

D Chouhan, BB Mandal - Acta biomaterialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Silk biomaterials are known for biomedical and tissue engineering applications including
drug delivery and implantable devices owing to their biocompatible and a wide range of …

Bioactive polymeric scaffolds for tissue engineering

S Stratton, NB Shelke, K Hoshino, S Rudraiah… - Bioactive materials, 2016 - Elsevier
A variety of engineered scaffolds have been created for tissue engineering using polymers,
ceramics and their composites. Biomimicry has been adopted for majority of the three …

Recent developments in biopolymer-based hydrogels for tissue engineering applications

R Hama, A Ulziibayar, JW Reinhardt, T Watanabe… - Biomolecules, 2023 - mdpi.com
Hydrogels are being investigated for their application in inducing the regeneration of various
tissues, and suitable conditions for each tissue are becoming more apparent. Conditions …

Materials fabrication from Bombyx mori silk fibroin

DN Rockwood, RC Preda, T Yücel, X Wang… - Nature protocols, 2011 - nature.com
Silk fibroin, derived from Bombyx mori cocoons, is a widely used and studied protein
polymer for biomaterial applications. Silk fibroin has remarkable mechanical properties …

In vivo bioresponses to silk proteins

AE Thurber, FG Omenetto, DL Kaplan - Biomaterials, 2015 - Elsevier
Silks are appealing materials for numerous biomedical applications involving drug delivery,
tissue engineering, or implantable devices, because of their tunable mechanical properties …

Silk materials–a road to sustainable high technology

H Tao, DL Kaplan, FG Omenetto - Advanced materials, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This review addresses the use of silk protein as a sustainable material in optics and
photonics, electronics and optoelectronic applications. These options represent additional …

3D bioprinting of self‐standing silk‐based bioink

Z Zheng, J Wu, M Liu, H Wang, C Li… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Silk/polyethylene glycol (PEG) hydrogels are studied as self‐standing bioinks for 3D printing
for tissue engineering. The two components of the bioink, silk fibroin protein (silk) and PEG …

Silk based bioinks for soft tissue reconstruction using 3-dimensional (3D) printing with in vitro and in vivo assessments

MJ Rodriguez, J Brown, J Giordano, SJ Lin… - Biomaterials, 2017 - Elsevier
In the field of soft tissue reconstruction, custom implants could address the need for
materials that can fill complex geometries. Our aim was to develop a material system with …

Silk hydrogels as soft substrates for neural tissue engineering

AM Hopkins, L De Laporte, F Tortelli… - Advanced functional …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
There is great need for soft biomaterials that match the stiffness of human tissues for tissue
engineering and regeneration. Hydrogels are frequently employed for extracellular matrix …

Hybrid silk fibers dry-spun from regenerated silk fibroin/graphene oxide aqueous solutions

C Zhang, Y Zhang, H Shao, X Hu - ACS applied materials & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Regenerated silk fibroin (RSF)/graphene oxide (GO) hybrid silk fibers were dry-spun from a
mixed dope of GO suspension and RSF aqueous solution. It was observed that the presence …