Background Sodium alginate (SA) is an anionic polysaccharide with polyhydroxyl and
carboxyl groups. The weak gelation and film-forming properties of SA can be utilized to …

Health care and medicine were revolutionized in recent years by the development of
biomaterials, such as stents, implants, personalized drug delivery systems, engineered …

Nowadays, the most common approaches in the prognosis, diagnosis, and treatment of
diseases are along with undeniable limitations. Thus, the ever-increasing need for using …

Despite considerable advances in microsurgical techniques over the past decades, bone
tissue remains a challenging arena to obtain a satisfying functional and structural restoration …

In recent years, biomaterials development and characterization for new applications in
regenerative medicine or controlled release represent one of the biggest challenges. Tissue …

From the multitude of materials currently available on the market that can be used in the
development of microparticles, sodium alginate has become one of the most studied natural …

Alginate is an excellent biodegradable and renewable material that is already used for a
broad range of industrial applications, including advanced fields, such as biomedicine and …

The present review sets out to discuss recent developments of the effects and mechanisms
of carrier properties on their circulation time. For most drugs, sufficient in vivo circulation time …

Alginates are the most widely used natural polymers in the pharmaceutical, food and
cosmetic industries. Usually, they are applied as a thickening, gel-forming and stabilizing …

As a new type of injectable biomaterials, functional microspheres have attracted increasing
attention in tissue regeneration because they possess some advantageous properties …