Chitin and its derivatives: Structural properties and biomedical applications

SI Ahmad, R Ahmad, MS Khan, R Kant… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Chitin, a polysaccharide that occurs abundantly in nature after cellulose, has attracted the
interest of the scientific community due to its plenty of availability and low cost. Mostly, it is …

Functionalized and graft copolymers of chitosan and its pharmaceutical applications

C Bhavsar, M Momin, S Gharat… - Expert Opinion on Drug …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Chitosan is the second most abundant natural polysaccharide. It belongs a
family of polycationic polymers comprised of repetitive units of glucosamine and N …

Integrated sensing and delivery of oxygen for next-generation smart wound dressings

M Ochoa, R Rahimi, J Zhou, H Jiang… - Microsystems & …, 2020 - nature.com
Chronic wounds affect over 6.5 million Americans and are notoriously difficult to treat.
Suboptimal oxygenation of the wound bed is one of the most critical and treatable wound …

[PDF][PDF] Chitosan drives anti-inflammatory macrophage polarisation and pro-inflammatory dendritic cell stimulation

MI Oliveira, SG Santos, MJ Oliveira, AL Torres… - Eur Cell …, 2012 - academia.edu
Macrophages and dendritic cells (DC) share the same precursor and play key roles in
immunity. Modulation of their behaviour to achieve an optimal host response towards an …

[HTML][HTML] Chitosan tubes of varying degrees of acetylation for bridging peripheral nerve defects

K Haastert-Talini, S Geuna, LB Dahlin, C Meyer… - Biomaterials, 2013 - Elsevier
Biosynthetic nerve grafts are desired as alternative to autologous nerve grafts in peripheral
nerve reconstruction. Artificial nerve conduits still have their limitations and are not widely …

Polyvinylpyrrolidone/hyaluronic acid-based bilayer constructs for sequential delivery of cutaneous antiseptic and antibiotic

M Contardi, D Russo, G Suarato… - Chemical Engineering …, 2019 - Elsevier
After a skin injury, many complex metabolic events are triggered to ensure proper wound
healing. Particularly for chronic, non-healing wounds or burns several risk factors such as …

Prospects of peripheral nerve tissue engineering using nerve guide conduits based on silk fibroin protein and other biopolymers

M Farokhi, F Mottaghitalab… - International …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Peripheral nerve injuries face some clinical obstacles and unsatisfactory functional
outcomes. The slow regeneration rate of defected nerve delays functional recovery. To date …

Overview on biocompatibilities of implantable biomaterials

X Wang - Advances in Biomaterials Science and Biomedical …, 2013 - books.google.com
A biomaterial is any material that comprises whole or part of a living structure or biomedical
device which performs, augments, or replaces a natural function to improve the quality of life …

Biodegradable nano-polymers as delivery vehicles for therapeutic small non-coding ribonucleic acids

A Mokhtarzadeh, A Alibakhshi, M Hashemi… - Journal of Controlled …, 2017 - Elsevier
Nowadays, small non-coding Ribo Nucleic Acids (sncRNAs) such as siRNA, miRNA and
shRNA are extremely serving to gene regulation. They are involved in many biological …

Adsorbed fibrinogen leads to improved bone regeneration and correlates with differences in the systemic immune response

SG Santos, M Lamghari, CR Almeida, MI Oliveira… - Acta biomaterialia, 2013 - Elsevier
Designing new biomaterials that can modulate the inflammatory response instead of
attempting just to reduce it constitutes a paradigm change in regenerative medicine. This …