Silk fibroin as a functional biomaterial for tissue engineering

W Sun, DA Gregory, MA Tomeh, X Zhao - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Tissue engineering (TE) is the approach to combine cells with scaffold materials and
appropriate growth factors to regenerate or replace damaged or degenerated tissue or …

Overview of silk fibroin use in wound dressings

M Farokhi, F Mottaghitalab, Y Fatahi… - Trends in …, 2018 - cell.com
Recently, biomimetic wound dressings were introduced as potential replacements for
treating skin injuries. Although there are some clinically available skin replacements, the …

Silk fibroin and silk-based biomaterial derivatives for ideal wound dressings

PP Patil, MR Reagan, RA Bohara - International journal of biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Silk fibroin (SF) is derived from Bombyx mori silkworm cocoons and has been used in
textiles and as a suture material for decades. More recently, SF has been used for various …

Silk fibroin for skin injury repair: where do things stand?

M Gholipourmalekabadi, S Sapru… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2020 - Elsevier
Several synthetic and natural materials are used in soft tissue engineering and regenerative
medicine with varying degrees of success. Among them, silkworm silk protein fibroin, a …

Borrowing from nature: biopolymers and biocomposites as smart wound care materials

G Suarato, R Bertorelli, A Athanassiou - Bioengineering and …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Wound repair is a complex and tightly regulated physiological process, involving the
activation of various cell types throughout each subsequent step (homeostasis …

Wound healing effect of electrospun silk fibroin nanomatrix in burn-model

HW Ju, OJ Lee, JM Lee, BM Moon, HJ Park… - International journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Silk fibroin has recently become an important biomaterial for tissue engineering application.
In this study, silk fibroin nanomatrix was fabricated by electrospinning and evaluated as …

Zinc oxide nanoparticles functionalized on hydrogel grafted silk fibroin fabrics as efficient composite dressing

S Majumder, U Ranjan Dahiya, S Yadav, P Sharma… - Biomolecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Recent advances in woundcare is targeted towards developing active-dressings, where
multiple components are combined to provide a suitable environment for rapid healing. The …

Green tea catechin-grafted silk fibroin hydrogels with reactive oxygen species scavenging activity for wound healing applications

G Lee, YG Ko, KH Bae, M Kurisawa, OK Kwon… - Biomaterials …, 2022 - spj.science.org
Background Overproduction of reactive oxygen species (ROS) is known to delay wound
healing by causing oxidative tissue damage and inflammation. The green tea catechin,(–) …

Collagen–PVA films plasticized with choline acetate ionic liquid for sustained drug release: UV shielding, mechanical, antioxidant, and antibacterial properties

M Ahmed, AR Bhat, AK Verma… - ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2023 - ACS Publications
Collagen and poly (vinyl alcohol) films as topical drug delivery systems were developed by
plasticization with glycerol and different concentrations of choline acetate ([Cho] Ac) ionic …

Silk fibroin in wound healing process

MT Sultan, OJ Lee, SH Kim, HW Ju, CH Park - Novel biomaterials for …, 2018 - Springer
Silk fibroin (SF), a natural bioproduct, has been extensively used in biological and
biomedical fields including wound healing due to its robust biocompatibility, less …