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Alginate: properties and biomedical applications

Kuen Yong Lee, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2012 - 
- Vol. 37, Iss: 1, pp 106-126
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This review will provide a comprehensive overview of general properties of alginate and its hydrogels, their biomedical applications, and suggest new perspectives for future studies with these polymers.
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This article is published in Progress in Polymer Science.The article was published on 2012-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 5372 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Self-healing hydrogels.

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In Vitro and In Vivo Evaluation of 3D Bioprinted Small-diameter Vasculature with Smooth Muscle and Endothelium

TL;DR: The results demonstrate the bioprinted vascular construct possessed numerous favorable, biomimetic characteristics such as proper biomechanics, higher tissue affinity, vascularized tissue manufacturing ability, beneficial perfusability and permeability, excellent vasculoactivity, and in vivo autonomous connection as well as vascular remodeling.
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Removal of Mn (II) by Sodium Alginate/Graphene Oxide Composite Double-Network Hydrogel Beads from Aqueous Solutions

TL;DR: The Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) results indicate that the GO/SA double (GAD) network hydrogel bead strongly interpenetrate and the adsorption of Mn(II) is mainly influenced by solution pH, bead dose and temperature.
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Alginate encapsulation of human embryonic stem cells to enhance directed differentiation to pancreatic islet-like cells.

TL;DR: Alginate encapsulation of hESCs and differentiation to islet-cell types provides a potentially translatable treatment option for type 1 diabetes.
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Time-responsive osteogenic niche of stem cells: A sequentially triggered, dual-peptide loaded, alginate hybrid system for promoting cell activity and osteo-differentiation.

TL;DR: It is suggested that independent and sequential stimulation in proliferation and osteo-differentiation stages could synergistically enhance the survivability, expansion, and osteogenesis of hMSCs, as compared to stimulating alone or simultaneously.
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Chitin and chitosan: Properties and applications

TL;DR: Chitin is the second most important natural polymer in the world as mentioned in this paper, and the main sources of chitin are two marine crustaceans, shrimp and crabs, which are used for food, cosmetics, biomedical and pharmaceutical applications.
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Tissue engineering : Frontiers in biotechnology

R. Langer, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1993 - 
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Angiogenesis in life, disease and medicine

TL;DR: Angiogenesis research will probably change the face of medicine in the next decades, with more than 500 million people worldwide predicted to benefit from pro- or anti-angiogenesis treatments.
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Biological interactions between polysaccharides and divalent cations: The egg‐box model

TL;DR: It is shown that spedfic binding of divalent cations to a polysaechafide polyelectro]ym, leading firm cohesion between the chains, can cause characteristic effects in the c~rcutar diehroism spectrum which are understandabb in terms of modem theo~, [ l ].
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