A review of cell adhesion studies for biomedical and biological applications

A Ahmad Khalili, MR Ahmad - International journal of molecular sciences, 2015 - mdpi.com
Cell adhesion is essential in cell communication and regulation, and is of fundamental
importance in the development and maintenance of tissues. The mechanical interactions …

Biomechanical, biophysical and biochemical modulators of cytoskeletal remodelling and emergent stem cell lineage commitment

VDL Putra, KA Kilian, ML Knothe Tate - Communications Biology, 2023 - nature.com
Across complex, multi-time and-length scale biological systems, redundancy confers
robustness and resilience, enabling adaptation and increasing survival under dynamic …

Alginate-based hydrogels as drug delivery vehicles in cancer treatment and their applications in wound dressing and 3D bioprinting

F Abasalizadeh, SV Moghaddam, E Alizadeh… - Journal of biological …, 2020 - Springer
Hydrogels are a three-dimensional and crosslinked network of hydrophilic polymers. They
can absorb a large amount of water or biological fluids, which leads to their swelling while …

Alginate nanoparticles for drug delivery and targeting

P Severino, CF da Silva, LN Andrade… - Current …, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
Nanotechnology refers to the control, manipulation, study and manufacture of structures and
devices at the nanometer size range. The small size, customized surface, improved solubility …

Alginate-based biomaterials for regenerative medicine applications

J Sun, H Tan - Materials, 2013 - mdpi.com
Alginate is a natural polysaccharide exhibiting excellent biocompatibility and
biodegradability, having many different applications in the field of biomedicine. Alginate is …

Alginate: properties and biomedical applications

KY Lee, DJ Mooney - Progress in polymer science, 2012 - Elsevier
Alginate is a biomaterial that has found numerous applications in biomedical science and
engineering due to its favorable properties, including biocompatibility and ease of gelation …

[HTML][HTML] A guide to mechanobiology: Where biology and physics meet

KA Jansen, DM Donato, HE Balcioglu, T Schmidt… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2015 - Elsevier
Cells actively sense and process mechanical information that is provided by the extracellular
environment to make decisions about growth, motility and differentiation. It is important to …

Advantages of RGD peptides for directing cell association with biomaterials

SL Bellis - Biomaterials, 2011 - Elsevier
Despite many years of in vitro research confirming the effectiveness of RGD in promoting
cell attachment to a wide variety of biomaterials, animal studies evaluating tissue responses …

Synthetic biomaterials as instructive extracellular microenvironments for morphogenesis in tissue engineering

MP Lutolf, JA Hubbell - Nature biotechnology, 2005 - nature.com
New generations of synthetic biomaterials are being developed at a rapid pace for use as
three-dimensional extracellular microenvironments to mimic the regulatory characteristics of …

RGD modified polymers: biomaterials for stimulated cell adhesion and beyond

U Hersel, C Dahmen, H Kessler - Biomaterials, 2003 - Elsevier
Since RGD peptides (R: arginine; G: glycine; D: aspartic acid) have been found to promote
cell adhesion in 1984 (Cell attachment activity of fibronectin can be duplicated by small …