Synthetic extracellular matrices with function-encoding peptides

C Ligorio, A Mata - Nature reviews bioengineering, 2023 - nature.com
The communication of cells with their surroundings is mostly encoded in the epitopes of
structural and signalling proteins present in the extracellular matrix (ECM). These peptide …

Drug delivery by supramolecular design

MJ Webber, R Langer - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The rational design of drug delivery approaches leveraging supramolecular chemistry
(ie,“chemistry beyond the molecule”) has garnered significant interest in recent years toward …

Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells: Aging and tissue engineering applications to enhance bone healing

H Lin, J Sohn, H Shen, MT Langhans, RS Tuan - Biomaterials, 2019 - Elsevier
Bone has well documented natural healing capacity that normally is sufficient to repair
fractures and other common injuries. However, the properties of bone change throughout …

Nanotechnology for angiogenesis: opportunities and challenges

S Kargozar, F Baino, S Hamzehlou… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Angiogenesis plays a critical role within the human body, from the early stages of life (ie,
embryonic development) to life-threatening diseases (eg, cancer, heart attack, stroke, wound …

Peptide supramolecular materials for therapeutics

K Sato, MP Hendricks, LC Palmer… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Supramolecular assembly of peptide-based monomers into nanostructures offers many
promising applications in advanced therapies. In this Tutorial Review, we introduce …

Self‐assembly in nature: using the principles of nature to create complex nanobiomaterials

AC Mendes, ET Baran, RL Reis… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Self‐assembly is a ubiquitous process in biology where it plays numerous important roles
and underlies the formation of a wide variety of complex biological structures. Over the past …

Recent advances in nano scaffolds for bone repair

H Yi, F Ur Rehman, C Zhao, B Liu, N He - Bone research, 2016 - nature.com
Biomedical applications of nanomaterials are exponentially increasing every year due to
analogy to various cell receptors, ligands, structural proteins, and genetic materials (that is …

Supramolecular peptide nanofiber hydrogels for bone tissue engineering: from multihierarchical fabrications to comprehensive applications

Z Hao, H Li, Y Wang, Y Hu, T Chen, S Zhang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bone tissue engineering is becoming an ideal strategy to replace autologous bone grafts for
surgical bone repair, but the multihierarchical complexity of natural bone is still difficult to …

Heparin-functionalized polymeric biomaterials in tissue engineering and drug delivery applications

Y Liang, KL Kiick - Acta biomaterialia, 2014 - Elsevier
Heparin plays an important role in many biological processes via its interaction with various
proteins, and hydrogels and nanoparticles comprising heparin exhibit attractive properties …

Protein-mimetic peptide nanofibers: Motif design, self-assembly synthesis, and sequence-specific biomedical applications

W Zhang, X Yu, Y Li, Z Su, KD Jandt, G Wei - Progress in Polymer Science, 2018 - Elsevier
The design and fabrication of self-assembled peptide nanostructures offer an amazing
platform for creating functional nanomaterials for various biomedical applications. Utilizing …