Advances and impact of antioxidant hydrogel in chronic wound healing

Z Xu, S Han, Z Gu, J Wu - Advanced healthcare materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The accelerating and thorough treatment of chronic wounds still represents a major unmet
medical need owing to the complex symptoms resulting from metabolic disorder of the …

Polyphenols as a versatile component in tissue engineering

X Gao, Z Xu, G Liu, J Wu - Acta biomaterialia, 2021 - Elsevier
The fabrication of functional tissue or organs substitutes has always been the pursuit of
goals in the field of tissue engineering. But even biocompatible tissue-engineered scaffolds …

Designing scaffolds for corneal regeneration

M Ahearne, J Fernández‐Pérez… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Corneal blindness is one of the most common causes of vision loss worldwide, affecting
millions of people. To treat these patients, researchers have been examining different …

[HTML][HTML] Corneal regeneration: A review of stromal replacements

S Matthyssen, B Van den Bogerd, SN Dhubhghaill… - Acta biomaterialia, 2018 - Elsevier
Corneal blindness is traditionally treated by transplantation of a donor cornea, or in severe
cases by implantation of an artificial cornea or keratoprosthesis. Due to severe donor …

Electrospun scaffolds for corneal tissue engineering: A review

B Kong, S Mi - Materials, 2016 - mdpi.com
Corneal diseases constitute the second leading cause of vision loss and affect more than 10
million people globally. As there is a severe shortage of fresh donated corneas and an …

Engineering of corneal tissue through an aligned PVA/collagen composite nanofibrous electrospun scaffold

Z Wu, B Kong, R Liu, W Sun, S Mi - Nanomaterials, 2018 - mdpi.com
Corneal diseases are the main reason of vision loss globally. Constructing a corneal
equivalent which has a similar strength and transparency with the native cornea, seems to …

Glycosaminoglycans: roles in wound healing, formation of corneal constructs and synthetic corneas

KL Segars, V Trinkaus-Randall - The ocular surface, 2023 - Elsevier
Maintaining the clarity of the cornea is essential for vision, and is achieved through an
exquisite array of collagen fibrils and proteoglycans in the corneal stroma. Alterations in the …

Corneal opacity: cell biological determinants of the transition from transparency to transient haze to scarring fibrosis, and resolution, after injury

SE Wilson, LP Sampaio, TM Shiju… - … & Visual Science, 2022 - iovs.arvojournals.org
Purpose: To highlight the cellular, matrix, and hydration changes associated with opacity
that occurs in the corneal stroma after injury. Methods: Review of the literature. Results: The …

The human tissue-engineered cornea (hTEC): Recent Progress

LP Guérin, G Le-Bel, P Desjardins, C Couture… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Each day, about 2000 US workers have a job-related eye injury requiring medical treatment.
Corneal diseases are the fifth cause of blindness worldwide. Most of these diseases can be …

Impact of exosomes released by different corneal cell types on the wound healing properties of human corneal epithelial cells

P Desjardins, R Berthiaume, C Couture… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Corneal wound healing involves communication between the different cell types that
constitute the three cellular layers of the cornea (epithelium, stroma and endothelium), a …