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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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An emerging platform for drug delivery: aerogel based systems.

TL;DR: This review presents an up to date overview of the advances in all kinds of aerogel based drug delivery systems which are currently under investigation.
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Green Electrospun Nanofibers and Their Application in Air Filtration

TL;DR: Huang et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed the Jiangsu Provincial Key Lab for the Chemistry and Utilization of Agro-Forest Biomass Jiangsu Key Lab of biomass-based Green Fuels and Chemicals Nanjing Forestry University Nanjing 210037, P. R. Lv, M. Zhu, Z. Jiang, C. Xiong, and Z. C. Huang.
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Purification and Characterization of a New Alginate Lyase from Marine Bacterium Vibrio sp. SY08

TL;DR: A new high UAD-producing alginate lyase, AlySY08, has been purified from the marine bacterium Vibrio sp.
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Biopolymer-based functional composites for medical applications

TL;DR: This article provides comprehensive knowledge and highlights recent research on functional biopolymer composites used in various medical applications, such as tissue engineering comprising skin, bone, cartilage, vascular graft, and other organs, implantable medical devices including stent and barrier membrane, and some delivery systems of bioactive agents.
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Tuning Alginate Bioink Stiffness and Composition for Controlled Growth Factor Delivery and to Spatially Direct MSC Fate within Bioprinted Tissues

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the MW of such alginate bioinks, as well as the choice of ionic crosslinker, can be tuned to control the mechanical properties of 3D printed constructs, and these same factors are also shown to influence growth factor release from the bioinks.
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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

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- 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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