Scaffold fabrication technologies and structure/function properties in bone tissue engineering

MN Collins, G Ren, K Young, S Pina… - Advanced functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Bone tissue engineering (BTE) is a rapidly growing field aiming to create a biofunctional
tissue that can integrate and degrade in vivo to treat diseased or damaged tissue. It has …

[HTML][HTML] Advantages of hyaluronic acid and its combination with other bioactive ingredients in cosmeceuticals

AM Juncan, DG Moisă, A Santini, C Morgovan, LL Rus… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
This study proposes a review on hyaluronic acid (HA) known as hyaluronan or hyaluronate
and its derivates and their application in cosmetic formulations. HA is a glycosaminoglycan …

Hyaluronan biology: A complex balancing act of structure, function, location and context

S Garantziotis, RC Savani - Matrix Biology, 2019 - Elsevier
Cell-matrix interactions are fundamental to many developmental, homeostatic, immune and
pathologic processes. Hyaluronan (HA), a critical component of the extracellular matrix …

A review of bioactive plant polysaccharides: Biological activities, functionalization, and biomedical applications

J Liu, S Willför, C Xu - Bioactive Carbohydrates and Dietary Fibre, 2015 - Elsevier
Natural polysaccharides from different sources have long been studied and widely used in
different areas, such as food and feed, medicine and pharmaceutics, and in papermaking. In …

Functionalizing nanoparticles with biological molecules: developing chemistries that facilitate nanotechnology

KE Sapsford, WR Algar, L Berti, KB Gemmill… - Chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Bionanotechnology has now become firmly established in its own right as one of the
principle and focused subdisciplines within nanotechnology.(1-10) Bionanotechnology can …

Guiding lights: tissue bioprinting using photoactivated materials

M Lee, R Rizzo, F Surman, M Zenobi-Wong - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Photoactivated materials have found widespread use in biological and medical applications
and are playing an increasingly important role in the nascent field of three-dimensional (3D) …

Chemical modifications of hyaluronic acid for the synthesis of derivatives for a broad range of biomedical applications

CE Schanté, G Zuber, C Herlin, TF Vandamme - Carbohydrate polymers, 2011 - Elsevier
Hyaluronic acid (HA) is widely used for numerous medical applications, such as
viscosupplementation, eye surgery and drug delivery. A broad range of HA-based materials …

The importance of CD44 as a stem cell biomarker and therapeutic target in cancer

R Thapa, GD Wilson - Stem cells international, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
CD44 is a cell surface HA‐binding glycoprotein that is overexpressed to some extent by
almost all tumors of epithelial origin and plays an important role in tumor initiation and …

[HTML][HTML] Sources, extraction and biomedical properties of polysaccharides

S Ullah, AA Khalil, F Shaukat, Y Song - Foods, 2019 - mdpi.com
In the recent era, bioactive compounds from plants have received great attention because of
their vital health-related activities, such as antimicrobial activity, antioxidant activity …

Chemical synthesis of glycosaminoglycans

M Mende, C Bednarek, M Wawryszyn, P Sauter… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) as one major part of the glycocalyx are involved in many
essential biological cell processes, as well as in many courses of diseases. Because of the …