Importantly, with the advent of hybridoma and recombinant DNA technologies, the limitations
associated with the extraction and purification of pharmaceutical proteins from animal …

Every year, millions of patients suffer the loss or failure of an organ or tissue as a result of
accidents or disease. Over 8 million surgical procedures are performed to treat these …

Cell culturing, whether for tissue engineering or cell biology studies, always involves placing
cells in a non‐natural environment and no material currently exist that can mimic the entire …

In the past few years, an increasing number of in situ-forming systems have been reported in
the literature for various biomedical applications, including drug delivery, cell encapsulation …

The injectable polymer scaffolds which are biocompatible and biodegradable are important
biomaterials for tissue engineering and drug delivery. Hydrogels derived from natural …

Recent developments include the use of water-swollen, crosslinked biomedical polymers as
carriers for the delivery of drugs, peptides and proteins, as targeting agents for site-specific …

Thermosensitive hydrogels are very important biomaterials used in drug delivery systems
(DDSs), which gained increasing attention of researchers. Thermosensitive hydrogels have …

Recently, tissue engineering approaches using injectable, in situ gel forming systems have
been reported. In this review, the gelation processes and several injectable systems that …

Hydrogels that support tissue formation in vitro were developed using poly (N-
isopropylacrylamide)[P (NIPAAm)]. Loosely cross-linked P (NIPAAm) and poly (NIPAAm-co …

Tissue engineering aims to develop functional substitutes for damaged or diseased tissues
through complex constructs of living cells, bioactive molecules and three-dimensional …