Biomaterials for in situ tissue regeneration: A review

S Abdulghani, GR Mitchell - Biomolecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
This review focuses on a somewhat unexplored strand of regenerative medicine, that is in
situ tissue engineering. In this approach manufactured scaffolds are implanted in the injured …

Injectable and biodegradable hydrogels: gelation, biodegradation and biomedical applications

Y Li, J Rodrigues, H Tomás - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Injectable hydrogels with biodegradability have in situ formability which in vitro/in vivo allows
an effective and homogeneous encapsulation of drugs/cells, and convenient in vivo surgical …

Hyaluronic acid hydrogels for biomedical applications

JA Burdick, GD Prestwich - Advanced materials, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Hyaluronic acid (HA), an immunoneutral polysaccharide that is ubiquitous in the human
body, is crucial for many cellular and tissue functions and has been in clinical use for over …

Heparin-functionalized polymeric biomaterials in tissue engineering and drug delivery applications

Y Liang, KL Kiick - Acta biomaterialia, 2014 - Elsevier
Heparin plays an important role in many biological processes via its interaction with various
proteins, and hydrogels and nanoparticles comprising heparin exhibit attractive properties …

Hydrogels for protein delivery in tissue engineering

R Censi, P Di Martino, T Vermonden… - Journal of Controlled …, 2012 - Elsevier
Tissue defects caused by diseases or trauma present enormous challenges in regenerative
medicine. Recently, a better understanding of the biological processes underlying tissue …

Hyaluronic acid-based clinical biomaterials derived for cell and molecule delivery in regenerative medicine

GD Prestwich - Journal of controlled release, 2011 - Elsevier
The development of injectable and biocompatible vehicles for delivery, retention, growth,
and differentiation of stem cells is of paramount importance for regenerative medicine. For …

Injectable polymeric hydrogels for the delivery of therapeutic agents: A review

QV Nguyen, JH Park, DS Lee - European Polymer Journal, 2015 - Elsevier
Since drug delivery systems have become one of the most promising areas of human health
related research, the applications of biomaterials such as hydrogels have been widely …

Injectable biodegradable hydrogels: progress and challenges

KH Bae, LS Wang, M Kurisawa - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the past decades, injectable hydrogels have emerged as promising biomaterials
because of their biocompatibility, excellent permeability, minimal invasion, and easy …

In situ tissue regeneration through host stem cell recruitment

IK Ko, SJ Lee, A Atala, JJ Yoo - Experimental & molecular medicine, 2013 - nature.com
The field of tissue engineering has made steady progress in translating various tissue
applications. Although the classical tissue engineering strategy, which involves the use of …

Tissue specific synthetic ECM hydrogels for 3-D in vitro maintenance of hepatocyte function

A Skardal, L Smith, S Bharadwaj, A Atala, S Soker… - Biomaterials, 2012 - Elsevier
Despite recent advances in biomaterial science, there is yet no culture system that supports
long-term culture expansion of human adult hepatocytes, while preserving continued …