Self‐healing hydrogels: the next paradigm shift in tissue engineering?

S Talebian, M Mehrali, N Taebnia… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Given their durability and long‐term stability, self‐healable hydrogels have, in the past few
years, emerged as promising replacements for the many brittle hydrogels currently being …

Traction of 3D and 4D printing in the healthcare industry: from drug delivery and analysis to regenerative medicine

K Osouli-Bostanabad, T Masalehdan… - ACS Biomaterials …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Three-dimensional (3D) printing and 3D bioprinting are promising technologies for a broad
range of healthcare applications from frontier regenerative medicine and tissue engineering …

Soft conducting polymer hydrogels cross-linked and doped by tannic acid for spinal cord injury repair

L Zhou, L Fan, X Yi, Z Zhou, C Liu, R Fu, C Dai… - Acs Nano, 2018 - ACS Publications
Mimicking soft tissue mechanical properties and the high conductivity required for electrical
transmission in the native spinal cord is critical in nerve tissue regeneration scaffold designs …

Neurodegenerative diseases and effective drug delivery: A review of challenges and novel therapeutics

A Akhtar, A Andleeb, TS Waris, M Bazzar… - Journal of Controlled …, 2021 - Elsevier
The central nervous system (CNS) encompasses the brain and spinal cord and is
considered the processing center and the most vital part of human body. The central …

Latest advances in cryogel technology for biomedical applications

A Memic, T Colombani, LJ Eggermont… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
There exists a technological need for advanced materials with improved properties for
emerging biomedical applications. Recent developments in macroporous materials have …

Extrusion bioprinting of soft materials: An emerging technique for biological model fabrication

T Jiang, JG Munguia-Lopez, S Flores-Torres… - Applied Physics …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Bioprinting has attracted increasing attention in the tissue engineering field and has been
touted to potentially become the leading technology to fabricate, and regenerate, tissues …

Stimuli-responsive, pentapeptide, nanofiber hydrogel for tissue engineering

JD Tang, C Mura, KJ Lampe - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Short peptides are uniquely versatile building blocks for self-assembly. Supramolecular
peptide assemblies can be used to construct functional hydrogel biomaterials—an attractive …

[HTML][HTML] Injectable hydrogels in central nervous system: Unique and novel platforms for promoting extracellular matrix remodeling and tissue engineering

E Hasanzadeh, A Seifalian, A Mellati, J Saremi… - Materials Today Bio, 2023 - Elsevier
Repairing central nervous system (CNS) is difficult due to the inability of neurons to recover
after damage. A clinically acceptable treatment to promote CNS functional recovery and …

[HTML][HTML] Anisotropic scaffolds for peripheral nerve and spinal cord regeneration

W Xue, W Shi, Y Kong, M Kuss, B Duan - Bioactive materials, 2021 - Elsevier
The treatment of long-gap (> 10 mm) peripheral nerve injury (PNI) and spinal cord injury
(SCI) remains a continuous challenge due to limited native tissue regeneration capabilities …

Achieving controlled biomolecule–biomaterial conjugation

CD Spicer, ET Pashuck, MM Stevens - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
The conjugation of biomolecules can impart materials with the bioactivity necessary to
modulate specific cell behaviors. While the biological roles of particular polypeptide …