Advanced hydrogels as wound dressings

S Tavakoli, AS Klar - Biomolecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Skin is the largest organ of the human body, protecting it against the external environment.
Despite high self-regeneration potential, severe skin defects will not heal spontaneously and …

Scaffolding biomaterials for 3D cultivated meat: prospects and challenges

C Bomkamp, SC Skaalure, GF Fernando… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Cultivating meat from stem cells rather than by raising animals is a promising solution to
concerns about the negative externalities of meat production. For cultivated meat to fully …

Natural hydrogel-based bio-inks for 3D bioprinting in tissue engineering: a review

A Fatimi, OV Okoro, D Podstawczyk, J Siminska-Stanny… - Gels, 2022 - mdpi.com
Three-dimensional (3D) printing is well acknowledged to constitute an important technology
in tissue engineering, largely due to the increasing global demand for organ replacement …

Carrageenan: drug delivery systems and other biomedical applications

EM Pacheco-Quito, R Ruiz-Caro, MD Veiga - Marine Drugs, 2020 - mdpi.com
Marine resources are today a renewable source of various compounds, such as
polysaccharides, that are used in the pharmaceutical, medical, cosmetic, and food fields. In …

Chitosan/Hyaluronic acid/Alginate and an assorted polymers loaded with honey, plant, and marine compounds for progressive wound healing—Know-how

M Prasathkumar, S Sadhasivam - International Journal of Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Biomaterials are being extensively used in regenerative medicine including tissue
engineering applications, as these enhance tissue development, repair, and help in the …

Polysaccharide nanoparticles: From fabrication to applications

A Plucinski, Z Lyu, BVKJ Schmidt - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Polysaccharides have attracted considerable attention in a broad range of applications in
recent years, which is due to their remarkable features such as biocompatibility …

Physically cross-linked chitosan-based hydrogels for tissue engineering applications: A state-of-the-art review

ML Pita-López, G Fletes-Vargas… - European Polymer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Physically cross-linked hydrogels are used as scaffolds in tissue engineering applications
because they are easily produced and avoid the potential toxicity produced by chemical …

Advances in biodegradable and injectable hydrogels for biomedical applications

Y Li, HY Yang, DS Lee - Journal of Controlled Release, 2021 - Elsevier
In situ-forming injectable hydrogels are smart biomaterials that can be implanted into living
bodies with minimal invasion. Due to pioneer work of Prof. Sung Wan Kim in this field …

New insights of scaffolds based on hydrogels in tissue engineering

DM Radulescu, IA Neacsu, AM Grumezescu… - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent years, biomaterials development and characterization for new applications in
regenerative medicine or controlled release represent one of the biggest challenges. Tissue …

Smart/stimuli-responsive hydrogels: State-of-the-art platforms for bone tissue engineering

HM El-Husseiny, EA Mady, WA El-Dakroury… - Applied Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Repair of bone defects is a time-consuming, self-healing process based on tissue modeling
and remodeling. However, the capacity of this method is limited, especially for critical-sized …