Alginate: properties and biomedical applications
Kuen Yong Lee,David J. Mooney +1 more
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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.About:
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.read more
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Recent progress of collagen, chitosan, alginate and other hydrogels in skin repair and wound dressing applications.
Wei Peng,Dan Li,Kaili Dai,Yixi Wang,Ping Song,Hairui Li,Pei Tang,Zhengyu Zhang,Zhengyong Li,Yuchi Zhou,Chang-Ge Zhou +10 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors reviewed the research progress of advanced functional skin repair and wound dressing, which provides a reference for the modifications and applications of wound dressings, and future development direction is also prospected.
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Covalently Crosslinked Hydrogels via Step-Growth Reactions: Crosslinking Chemistries, Polymers, and Clinical Impact.
TL;DR: In this article, a review of crosslinking chemistries and polymers commonly used for preparing translatable hydrogels are outlined and their performance in biological systems is summarized, and examples of effective polymer/crosslinking chemistry combinations that have yielded clinically approved hydrogel products are specifically highlighted.
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Recent advances on polymeric hydrogels as wound dressings.
Zheng Pan,Huijun Ye,Decheng Wu +2 more
TL;DR: The most recent progress on polymer-based hydrogels as wound dressings is discussed in this paper, where their hemostasis, antibacterial, and biodegradation properties are introduced.
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Microfluidic encapsulation of cells in alginate particles via an improved internal gelation approach
TL;DR: An improved internal gelation approach is developed to encapsulate single mammalian cells in monodisperse alginate microbeads as small as 26 μm in diameter and at rates of up to 1 kHz with high cell viability.
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Gel Microstructure Regulates Proliferation and Differentiation of MC3T3-E1 Cells Encapsulated in Alginate Beads
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the microstructure of alginate hydrogels can regulate the behavior of osteoprogenitor cells, thus suggesting that the tuning the properties of the gel may be a useful approach for enhancing new bone formation.
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