Bleeding complications arising from trauma, surgery, and as congenital, disease‐
associated, or drug‐induced blood disorders can cause significant morbidities and …

Carrageenan is a natural polysaccharide extracted from edible red seaweeds of
Rhodophycea class. It has been used as a viscosity increasing or gelling agent for …

The demand for organ transplantation and repair, coupled with a shortage of available
donors, poses an urgent clinical need for the development of innovative treatment strategies …

Seaweeds are abundant sources of diverse bioactive compounds with various properties
and mechanisms of action. These compounds offer protective effects, high nutritional value …

Owing to its high biodegradability, and nontoxicity and antimicrobial properties, chitosan is
widely-used as an antimicrobial agent either alone or blended with other natural polymers …

This review outlines the role of alginates in microencapsulation and therapeutic
applications. It focuses on the physicochemical properties of alginates (eg viscosity, thermo …

Modified alginates have a wide range of applications, including in the manufacture of
dressings and scaffolds used for regenerative medicine, in systems for selective drug …

In the chitin bibliography, a major reference is the book written by Richards in 1951
“primarily for entomologists and other invertebrate zoologists” but also, in the author's hope …

Chitin and its derivative chitosan are popular constituents in wound-treatment technologies
due to their nanoscale fibrous morphology and attractive biomedical properties that …

This work reviews the relevant information about the possibility of producing microparticles
with chitosan, by a spray drying process, for industrial applications. The applicability and the …