Recent progress in the industrial and biomedical applications of tragacanth gum: A review

EN Zare, P Makvandi, FR Tay - Carbohydrate polymers, 2019 - Elsevier
Natural polymers have distinct advantages over synthetic polymers because of their
abundance, biocompatibility, and biodegradability. Tragacanth gum, an anionic …

Gum tragacanth (GT): a versatile biocompatible material beyond borders

ME Taghavizadeh Yazdi, S Nazarnezhad, SH Mousavi… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
The use of naturally occurring materials in biomedicine has been increasingly attracting the
researchers' interest and, in this regard, gum tragacanth (GT) is recently showing great …

Development of a nanocomposite scaffold of gelatin–alginate–graphene oxide for bone tissue engineering

SD Purohit, R Bhaskar, H Singh, I Yadav… - International journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Bone damage, due to congenital defects, trauma and sports-related injuries, has become a
foremost health problem all over the world. The present study involves fabrication of a …

Scaffolds and coatings for bone regeneration

HF Pereira, IF Cengiz, FS Silva, RL Reis… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - Springer
Bone tissue has an astonishing self-healing capacity yet only for non-critical size defects (<
6 mm) and clinical intervention is needed for critical-size defects and beyond that along with …

A review on tragacanth gum: A promising natural polysaccharide in drug delivery and cell therapy

Z Nazemi, M Sahraro, M Janmohammadi… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Tragacanth is an abundant natural gum extracted from some plants and is dried for use in
various applications from industry to biomedicines. It is a cost-effective and easily accessible …

Tree gum-based renewable materials: Sustainable applications in nanotechnology, biomedical and environmental fields

VVT Padil, S Wacławek, M Černík, RS Varma - Biotechnology advances, 2018 - Elsevier
The prospective uses of tree gum polysaccharides and their nanostructures in various
aspects of food, water, energy, biotechnology, environment and medicine industries, have …

3D bioprinted alginate-gelatin based scaffolds for soft tissue engineering

D Chawla, T Kaur, A Joshi, N Singh - International journal of biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Increase in the number of patients suffering from Osteoarthritis is prevalent nowadays and
hence, there is need for tissue regeneration. Fabricating a 3D structure giving a better …

Optimization of electrospinning process & parameters for producing defect-free chitosan/polyethylene oxide nanofibers for bone tissue engineering

YP Singh, S Dasgupta, S Nayar… - Journal of Biomaterials …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Chitosan (CS) nanofibers were electrospun from aqueous chitosan solution using
concentrated acetic acid solution as a solvent. Polyethylene oxide (PEO) with varying weight …

Pectin/chitosan nanoparticle beads as potential carriers for quercetin release

T Nalini, SK Basha, AM Sadiq, VS Kumari - Materials Today …, 2022 - Elsevier
The present work explores the fabrication of pectin/chitosan nanoparticle (PEC/CSNP)
beads as nanocarrier encapsulating hydrophobic quercetin overcome solubility and …

[HTML][HTML] Biological activity of multicomponent bio-hydrogels loaded with tragacanth gum

RT Polez, M Morits, C Jonkergouw, J Phiri… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Producing hydrogels capable of mimicking the biomechanics of soft tissue remains a
challenge. We explore the potential of plant-based hydrogels as polysaccharide tragacanth …