Current hydrogel advances in physicochemical and biological response-driven biomedical application diversity

H Cao, L Duan, Y Zhang, J Cao, K Zhang - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Hydrogel is a type of versatile platform with various biomedical applications after rational
structure and functional design that leverages on material engineering to modulate its …

Three-Dimensional in Vitro Cell Culture Models in Drug Discovery and Drug Repositioning

SA Langhans - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Drug development is a lengthy and costly process that proceeds through several stages
from target identification to lead discovery and optimization, preclinical validation and …

Advances in gelatin-based hydrogels for wound management

JI Kang, KM Park - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Skin wounds can be classified into two categories, namely acute and chronic wounds. While
acute wounds are healed by the normal wound healing process, chronic wounds are not …

Injectable hypoxia-induced conductive hydrogel to promote diabetic wound healing

X **, Y Shang, Y Zou, M **ao, H Huang… - … Applied Materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Injectable hydrogels with the capability to cast a hypoxic microenvironment is of great
potentialities to develop novel therapies for tissue regeneration. However, the relative …

Prospects for hypoxia-based drug delivery platforms for the elimination of advanced metastatic tumors: from 3D modeling to clinical concepts

M Shahpouri, MA Adili-Aghdam, H Mahmudi… - Journal of Controlled …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hypoxia is a unique characteristic of the solid tumor microenvironment. Hypoxia contributes
to multi-drug resistance, metastasis and cancer relapse through numerous molecular …

Peptide stereocomplexation orchestrates supramolecular assembly of hydrogel biomaterials

IJ Duti, JR Florian, AR Kittel, CD Amelung… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Stereocomplexation, or specific interactions among complementary stereoregular
macromolecules, is burgeoning as an increasingly impactful design tool, exerting exquisite …

Technical feasibility and physiological relevance of hypoxic cell culture models

J Pavlacky, J Polak - Frontiers in endocrinology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Hypoxia is characterized as insufficient oxygen delivery to tissues and cells in the body and
is prevalent in many human physiology processes and diseases. Thus, it is an attractive …

Middle-out methods for spatiotemporal tissue engineering of organoids

MR Blatchley, KS Anseth - Nature Reviews Bioengineering, 2023 - nature.com
Organoids recapitulate many aspects of the complex three-dimensional (3D) organization
found within native tissues and even display tissue and organ-level functionality. Traditional …

Mimicking tumor hypoxia and tumor-immune interactions employing three-dimensional in vitro models

S Bhattacharya, K Calar, P de la Puente - Journal of Experimental & …, 2020 - Springer
The heterogeneous tumor microenvironment (TME) is highly complex and not entirely
understood. These complex configurations lead to the generation of oxygen-deprived …

Proteinaceous hydrogels for bioengineering advanced 3D tumor models

B Blanco‐Fernandez, VM Gaspar, E Engel… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The establishment of tumor microenvironment using biomimetic in vitro models that
recapitulate key tumor hallmarks including the tumor supporting extracellular matrix (ECM) is …