Chitosan: A review on properties, biological activities and recent progress in biomedical applications

A Harugade, AP Sherje, A Pethe - Reactive and Functional Polymers, 2023 - Elsevier
Chitosan is a naturally occurring amino polysaccharide obtained by deacetylation of chitin
and is second most commonly used natural polymer. Its non-toxic, biocompatibility and …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advancements in applications of chitosan-based biomaterials for skin tissue engineering

A Madni, R Kousar, N Naeem, F Wahid - Journal of Bioresources and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The use of polymer based composites in the treatment of skin tissue damages, has got huge
attention in clinical demand, which enforced the scientists to improve the methods of …

Exudate absorbing and antimicrobial hydrogel integrated with multifunctional curcumin-loaded magnesium polyphenol network for facilitating burn wound healing

Y Gong, P Wang, R Cao, J Wu, H Ji, M Wang, C Hu… - Acs Nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Burns are among the most common causes of trauma worldwide. Reducing the healing time
of deep burn wounds has always been a major challenge. Traditional dressings not only …

Chronic wounds: Current status, available strategies and emerging therapeutic solutions

K Las Heras, M Igartua, E Santos-Vizcaino… - Journal of controlled …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the past decades, adequate and well-planned management of chronic wounds has
reached an elevated importance to improve human's quality of life and extend life …

Recent progressions in biomedical and pharmaceutical applications of chitosan nanoparticles: A comprehensive review

EM Khalaf, NA Abood, RZ Atta… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nowadays, the most common approaches in the prognosis, diagnosis, and treatment of
diseases are along with undeniable limitations. Thus, the ever-increasing need for using …

Hydrogel-based commercial products for biomedical applications: A review

S Cascone, G Lamberti - International journal of pharmaceutics, 2020 - Elsevier
Hydrogels are hydrophilic polymer networks, able to absorb large amount of water,
increasing their volume and showing a plethora of different material behaviors. Since their …

[HTML][HTML] Keratin-Based materials for biomedical applications

S Feroz, N Muhammad, J Ratnayake, G Dias - Bioactive materials, 2020 - Elsevier
Keratin constitutes the major component of the feather, hair, hooves, horns, and wool
represents a group of biological material having high cysteine content (7–13%) as …

[HTML][HTML] Various manufacturing methods and ideal properties of scaffolds for tissue engineering applications

L Suamte, A Tirkey, J Barman, PJ Babu - Smart Materials in Manufacturing, 2023 - Elsevier
The precision in the design and manufacturing of scaffolds with ideal properties such as
biocompatibility, biodegradability, mechanical and surface characteristics is very crucial for …

Wound dressing based on electrospun PVA/chitosan/starch nanofibrous mats: Fabrication, antibacterial and cytocompatibility evaluation and in vitro healing assay

H Adeli, MT Khorasani, M Parvazinia - International journal of biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Electrospun nanofibrous mats based on biopolymers have been widely investigated for
tissue engineering in recent years, primarily due to remarkable morphological similarity to …

[HTML][HTML] Cellulose-alginate hydrogels and their nanocomposites for water remediation and biomedical applications

AK Rana, VK Gupta, P Hart, VK Thakur - Environmental Research, 2024 - Elsevier
In the last decade, both cellulose and alginate polysaccharides have been extensively
utilized for the synthesis of biocompatible hydrogels because of their alluring characteristics …