Strategies to use fibrinogen as bioink for 3D bioprinting fibrin-based soft and hard tissues

BAG de Melo, YA Jodat, EM Cruz, JC Benincasa… - Acta biomaterialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Fibrin gel has been widely used for engineering various types of tissues due to its
biocompatible nature, biodegradability, and tunable mechanical and nanofibrous structural …

A review on the adaption of alginate-gelatin hydrogels for 3D cultures and bioprinting

MB Łabowska, K Cierluk, AM Jankowska, J Kulbacka… - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Sustaining the vital functions of cells outside the organism requires strictly defined
parameters. In order to ensure their optimal growth and development, it is necessary to …

Recent advancement of biopolymers and their potential biomedical applications

MC Biswas, B Jony, PK Nandy, RA Chowdhury… - Journal of Polymers and …, 2022 - Springer
Recently, the advantages of biopolymers over conventional plastic polymers are
unprecedented, provided that they are used in situations in which they raise the functionality …

Hydrogels for tissue engineering: addressing key design needs toward clinical translation

F Xu, C Dawson, M Lamb, E Mueller… - … in bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
While the soft mechanics and tunable cell interactions facilitated by hydrogels have attracted
significant interest in the development of functional hydrogel-based tissue engineering …

Designing a new alginate-fibrinogen biomaterial composite hydrogel for wound healing

M Soleimanpour, SS Mirhaji, S Jafari… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Wound healing is a complex process and rapid healing necessitates a proper micro-
environment. Therefore, design and fabrication of an efficacious wound dressing is an …

3D bioprinting of hepatocytes: Core–shell structured co-cultures with fibroblasts for enhanced functionality

R Taymour, D Kilian, T Ahlfeld, M Gelinsky, A Lode - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
With the aim of understanding and recapitulating cellular interactions of hepatocytes in their
physiological microenvironment and to generate an artificial 3D in vitro model, a co-culture …

Natural polymer-based hydrogels: From polymer to biomedical applications

L Zhao, Y Zhou, J Zhang, H Liang, X Chen, H Tan - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Hydrogels prepared from natural polymer have attracted extensive attention in biomedical
fields such as drug delivery, wound healing, and regenerative medicine due to their good …

The physical and chemical properties of hydrogels based on natural polymers

B Kaczmarek, K Nadolna, A Owczarek - Hydrogels based on natural …, 2020 - Elsevier
Hydrogels are three-dimensional networks which are highly swellable. Natural polymers are
interesting compounds due to their excellent biocompatibility, biodegradability, and …

Polysaccharide based scaffolds for soft tissue engineering applications

S Tiwari, R Patil, P Bahadur - Polymers, 2018 - mdpi.com
Soft tissue reconstructs require materials that form three-dimensional (3-D) structures
supportive to cell proliferation and regenerative processes. Polysaccharides, due to their …

Technological advances in fibrin for tissue engineering

R Sanz-Horta, A Matesanz, A Gallardo… - Journal of tissue …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Fibrin is a promising natural polymer that is widely used for diverse applications, such as
hemostatic glue, carrier for drug and cell delivery, and matrix for tissue engineering. Despite …