To PEGylate or not to PEGylate: Immunological properties of nanomedicine's most popular component, polyethylene glycol and its alternatives

D Shi, D Beasock, A Fessler, J Szebeni… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Polyethylene glycol or PEG has a long history of use in medicine. Many conventional
formulations utilize PEG as either an active ingredient or an excipient. PEG found its use in …

Biomedical applications of hydrogels in drug delivery system: An update

P Kesharwani, A Bisht, A Alexander, V Dave… - Journal of Drug Delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
Conventional drug delivery system generally deals with the issues involving repeated
dosing and systemic toxicities. Since few decades, hydrogels have played a significant role …

Hydrogel scaffolds for tissue engineering: the importance of polymer choice

CD Spicer - Polymer Chemistry, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Hydrogel scaffolds that can repair or regrow damaged biological tissue have great potential
for the treatment of injury and disease. These biomaterials are widely used in the tissue …

Nanogels: Synthesis, properties, and recent biomedical applications

QY Duan, YX Zhu, HR Jia, SH Wang, FG Wu - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nanogels, also termed hydrogel nanoparticles, have the properties and functions of both
nanomaterials and hydrogels. Till date, a considerable number of nanogels have been …

In situ forming injectable hydrogels for drug delivery and wound repair

R Dimatteo, NJ Darling, T Segura - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Hydrogels have been utilized in regenerative applications for many decades because of
their biocompatibility and similarity in structure to the native extracellular matrix. Initially …

Injectable hydrogels delivering therapeutic agents for disease treatment and tissue engineering

JH Lee - Biomaterials research, 2018 - spj.science.org
Background Injectable hydrogels have been extensively researched for the use as scaffolds
or as carriers of therapeutic agents such as drugs, cells, proteins, and bioactive molecules in …

Water-soluble photoinitiators in biomedical applications

W Tomal, J Ortyl - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Light-initiated polymerization processes are currently an important tool in various industrial
fields. The advancement of technology has resulted in the use of photopolymerization in …

Hydrogel scaffolds for tissue engineering: Progress and challenges

IM El-Sherbiny, MH Yacoub - Global Cardiology Science and Practice, 2013 - qscience.com
Designing of biologically active scaffolds with optimal characteristics is one of the key factors
for successful tissue engineering. Recently, hydrogels have received a considerable interest …

A review of trends and limitations in hydrogel-rapid prototyping for tissue engineering

T Billiet, M Vandenhaute, J Schelfhout… - Biomaterials, 2012 - Elsevier
The combined potential of hydrogels and rapid prototyping technologies has been an
exciting route in developing tissue engineering scaffolds for the past decade. Hydrogels …

Spatiotemporal hydrogel biomaterials for regenerative medicine

TE Brown, KS Anseth - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Hydrogels mimic many of the physical properties of soft tissue and are widely used
biomaterials for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Synthetic hydrogels have …