Articular cartilage has a low self-repair capacity due to the lack of vessels and nerves. In
recent times, nanofiber scaffolds have been widely used for this purpose. The optimum …

Cardiovascular diseases remain the leading cause of human mortality worldwide. Some
severe symptoms, including myocardial infarction and heart failure, are difficult to heal …

Approaches to the design and construction of biomimetic scaffolds for osteochondral tissue,
show increasing advances. Considering the limitations of this tissue in terms of repair and …

Incorporation of nanohydroxyapatite (nHAP) within a chitosan (CS)/silk fibroin (SF)
nanofibrous membrane scaffold (NMS) may provide a favorable microenvironment that more …

Ligament tears, seen in young athletes to elderly people, pose a very challenging problem
to achieve complete healing, due to its hypocellularity that decelerate regeneration of …

Stem cell therapy using mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs) represents a novel
approach to treating severe diseases, including osteoarthritis. However, the therapeutic …

Incisional hernia affects up to 20% of patients after abdominal surgery. Unlike other types of
hernia, its prognosis is poor, and patients suffer from recurrence within 10 years of the …

Recently, scaffolds for tissue regeneration purposes have been observed to utilize
nanoscale features in an effort to reap the cellular benefits of scaffold features resembling …

The aim of this work was to synthesize, characterize and apply advanced antimicrobial
biocompatible electrospun polymers suitable for medical implants for surgical repairs …

Electrospun materials have been widely explored for biomedical applications because of
their advantageous characteristics, ie, tridimensional nanofibrous structure with high surface …