As one of the long-established and necessary medical devices, surgical sutures play an
essentially important role in the closing and healing of damaged tissues and organs …

Gelatin is a promising material as scaffold with therapeutic and regenerative characteristics
due to its chemical similarities to the extracellular matrix (ECM) in the native tissues …

Nylon is a human‐made material and has been applied in many industrial fields. This
literature review explores the use of nylon in biomedical applications and discusses the …

New polymers are continuously developed for new therapeutic applications. New and
modified polymer chemistries that offer distinctive degradation and drug delivery are being …

With the increasing demand for wound healing around the world, the level of medical
equipment is also increasing, but sutures are still the preferred medical equipment for …

Abstract Electrospun poly (ƹ-caprolactone)(PCL) scaffolds incorporated with bioactive
materials play a key role in tissue engineering applications due to their extra cellular matrix …

Recently, antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), also called host defence peptides (HDPs), are
attracting great interest, as they are a highly viable alternative in the search of new …

The security issue of human health is faced with dispiriting threats from multidrug-resistant
bacteria infections induced by the abuse and misuse of antibiotics. Over decades, the …

Sutures are the most popular surgical implants in the global surgical equipment market.
They are used for holding tissues together to achieve wound closure. However, controlling …

Diclofenac potassium loaded sutures based upon PEG/PCL/chitosan-keratin blends were
fabricated using the hot-melt extrusion technique. Polymer sutures were evaluated based on …