The use of chitosan, alginate, and pectin in the biomedical and food sector—biocompatibility, bioadhesiveness, and biodegradability

GA Martău, M Mihai, DC Vodnar - Polymers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Nowadays, biopolymers as intelligent and active biopolymer systems in the food and
pharmaceutical industry are of considerable interest in their use. With this association in …

Synthetic polymeric biomaterials for wound healing: a review

M Mir, MN Ali, A Barakullah, A Gulzar, M Arshad… - Progress in …, 2018 - Springer
Wounds are of a variety of types and each category has its own distinctive healing
requirements. This realization has spurred the development of a myriad of wound dressings …

Development and characterization of pectin films activated by nanoemulsion and Pickering emulsion stabilized marjoram (Origanum majorana L.) essential oil

H Almasi, S Azizi, S Amjadi - Food Hydrocolloids, 2020 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to prepare the pectin films activated by marjoram essential oil-
loaded nanoemulsions (NE) and Pickering emulsions (PE). Low molecular surfactant of …

Natural and synthetic polymers for wounds and burns dressing

GD Mogoşanu, AM Grumezescu - International journal of pharmaceutics, 2014 - Elsevier
In the last years, health care professionals faced with an increasing number of patients
suffering from wounds and burns difficult to treat and heal. During the wound healing …

Edible films from pectin: Physical-mechanical and antimicrobial properties-A review

PJP Espitia, WX Du, R de Jesús Avena-Bustillos… - Food hydrocolloids, 2014 - Elsevier
Pectin is one of the main components of the plant cell wall chemically constituted by poly α1–
4-galacturonic acids. According to its degree of esterification with methanol, pectin can be …

Overviews on the cellular uptake mechanism of polysaccharide colloidal nanoparticles

S Salatin, A Yari Khosroushahi - Journal of cellular and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Nanoparticulate drug/gene carriers have gained much attention in the past decades
because of their versatile and tunable properties. However, efficacy of the therapeutic …

Status and future scope of plant-based green hydrogels in biomedical engineering

R Mohammadinejad, H Maleki, E Larraneta… - Applied Materials …, 2019 - Elsevier
Hydrogels are the most iconic class of soft materials, and since their first report in the
literature, they have attracted the attention of uncountable researchers. Over the past two …

A guide to polysaccharide-based hydrogel bioinks for 3D bioprinting applications

MC Teixeira, NS Lameirinhas, JPF Carvalho… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting is an innovative technology in the biomedical field,
allowing the fabrication of living constructs through an approach of layer-by-layer deposition …

Protein–polysaccharide composite materials: fabrication and applications

EJ Bealer, S Onissema-Karimu, A Rivera-Galletti… - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Protein–polysaccharide composites have been known to show a wide range of applications
in biomedical and green chemical fields. These composites have been fabricated into a …

Pharmaceutical and drug delivery applications of pectin and its modified nanocomposites

WM Kedir, EM Deresa, TF Diriba - Heliyon, 2022 - cell.com
Due to their natural availability, biocompatibility, biodegradability, nontoxicity, flexibility, as
well as improved structural and functional characteristics, pectin and pectin-based …