Polyhydroxyalkanoates: the natural biopolyester for future medical innovations

ZW Ren, ZY Wang, YW Ding, JW Dao, HR Li… - Biomaterials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are a family of natural microbial biopolyesters with the same
basic chemical structure and diverse side chain groups. Based on their excellent …

Biomedical applications of microbially engineered polyhydroxyalkanoates: An insight into recent advances, bottlenecks, and solutions

AK Singh, JK Srivastava, AK Chandel… - Applied microbiology …, 2019 - Springer
Biopolymeric polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are fabricated and accumulated by microbes
under unbalanced growth conditions, primarily by diverse genera of bacteria. Over the last …

Biodegradable and biocompatible polyhydroxy-alkanoates (PHA): auspicious microbial macromolecules for pharmaceutical and therapeutic applications

M Koller - Molecules, 2018 - mdpi.com
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) are bio-based microbial biopolyesters; their stiffness,
elasticity, crystallinity and degradability are tunable by the monomeric composition, selection …

Methods of synthesis, properties and biomedical applications of polyhydroxyalkanoates: a review

ME Grigore, RM Grigorescu, L Iancu… - Journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This study aims to provide an overview of the main polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) used in
medical applications. In this review, it has been demonstrated that the properties of PHAs …

Polyhydroxyalkanoates as biomaterials

BST Gadgil, N Killi, GVN Rathna - MedChemComm, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are biopolymers synthesized by bacteria under unbalanced
growth conditions. These biopolymers are considered as potential biomaterials for future …

Recent progress in the utilization of biosynthesized polyhydroxyalkanoates for biomedical applications–review

FI Butt, N Muhammad, A Hamid… - International journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
PHAs (polyhydroxyalkanoates) have emerged as biodegradable plastics more strongly in
the 20th century. A wide range of bacterial species along with fungi, plants, oilseed crops …

Poly (β-hydroxyalkanoates) as potential biomedical materials: an overview

C Scholz - 2000 - ACS Publications
Poly (β-hydroxyalkanoates),(PHAs), are produced by a wide variety of microorganism. Due
to their natural origin these, biopolyesters are biodegradable and biocompatible. The …

Biomedical applications of polyhydroxyalkanoates, an overview of animal testing and in vivo responses

SP Valappil, SK Misra, AR Boccaccini… - Expert Review of Medical …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) have been established as biodegradable polymers since the
second half of the twentieth century. Altering monomer composition of PHAs allows the …

Medical applications of biopolyesters polyhydroxyalkanoates

G Chen, Y Wang - Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2013 - Springer
Microbial polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are a family of biopolyesters produced by many
wild type and engineered bacteria. PHAs have diverse structures accompanied by flexible …

Biomedical applications of environmental friendly poly-hydroxyalkanoates

S Ansari, N Sami, D Yasin, N Ahmad… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Biological polyesters of hydroxyacids are known as polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA). They
have proved to be an alternative, environmentally friendly and attractive candidate for the …