Hydrogels in the clinic: An update

JR Clegg, K Adebowale, Z Zhao… - Bioengineering & …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogels have been used in the clinic since the late 1980s with broad applications in drug
delivery, cosmetics, tissue regeneration, among many other areas. The past three decades …

Hydrogels for tissue engineering: addressing key design needs toward clinical translation

F Xu, C Dawson, M Lamb, E Mueller… - … in bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
While the soft mechanics and tunable cell interactions facilitated by hydrogels have attracted
significant interest in the development of functional hydrogel-based tissue engineering …

Enhanced tendon healing by a tough hydrogel with an adhesive side and high drug-loading capacity

BR Freedman, A Kuttler, N Beckmann, S Nam… - Nature biomedical …, 2022 - nature.com
Hydrogels that provide mechanical support and sustainably release therapeutics have been
used to treat tendon injuries. However, most hydrogels are insufficiently tough, release …

Degradable and removable tough adhesive hydrogels

BR Freedman, O Uzun, NMM Luna, A Rock… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The development of tough adhesive hydrogels has enabled unprecedented adhesion to wet
and moving tissue surfaces throughout the body, but they are typically composed of …

Tension-free vaginal tape surgery versus polyacrylamide hydrogel injection for primary stress urinary incontinence: a randomized clinical trial

AM Itkonen Freitas, M Mentula… - The Journal of …, 2020 - auajournals.org
Purpose: We evaluated whether polyacrylamide hydrogel is noninferior to tension-free
vaginal tape to treat women with primary stress urinary incontinence. Materials and …

Management of female stress urinary incontinence: a care pathway and update

G Capobianco, M Madonia, S Morelli, F Dessole… - Maturitas, 2018 - Elsevier
Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is a condition characterized by an involuntary loss of urine
occurring as result of an increase in intra-abdominal pressure due to effort or exertion or on …

Highly conductive, stretchable, and cell‐adhesive hydrogel by nanoclay do**

C Tondera, TF Akbar, AK Thomas, W Lin, C Werner… - Small, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Electrically conductive materials that mimic physical and biological properties of tissues are
urgently required for seamless brain–machine interfaces. Here, a multinetwork hydrogel …

Tension-free vaginal tape and polyacrylamide hydrogel injection for primary stress urinary incontinence: 3-year followup from a randomized clinical trial

AM Itkonen Freitas, C Isaksson… - The Journal of …, 2022 - auajournals.org
Purpose: We sought to determine whether polyacrylamide hydrogel (PAHG) is noninferior to
tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) in the treatment of women with primary stress urinary …

Preparation and optimization of agarose or polyacrylamide/amino acid-based double network hydrogels for photocontrolled drug release

S **ang, C Guilbaud-Chéreau, P Hoschtettler… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The high water content and biocompatibility of amino-acid-based supramolecular hydrogels
have generated growing interest in drug delivery research. Nevertheless, the existing …

Intraurethral bulking agents for the management of female stress urinary incontinence: a systematic review

ZA Siddiqui, H Abboudi, R Crawford, S Shah - International Urogynecology …, 2017 - Springer
Introduction and hypothesis The object of this review was to assess the efficacy and safety of
urethral bulking agents (UBA), principally Macroplastique and Bulkamid, in the treatment of …