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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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Natural hydrogels for cartilage regeneration: Modification, preparation and application.

TL;DR: The natural hydrogels that are often used in cartilage tissue engineering with respect to synthesis, modification and application methods are introduced and the essential concepts and recent discoveries were demonstrated to illustrate the achievable goals and the current limitations.
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Mucins as multifunctional building blocks of biomaterials

TL;DR: A vision for how mucins could be used in the near future and what challenges await the field before biomaterials made of mucins and mucin-mimics can be translated into commercial products are offered.
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Alginate-hyaluronan composite hydrogels accelerate wound healing process.

TL;DR: Overall results demonstrate that the integration of HA in a physically cross-linked ALG hydrogel can be a versatile strategy to promote wound healing that can be easily translated in a clinical setting.
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Green and efficient extraction of polysaccharides from brown seaweed by adding deep eutectic solvent in subcritical water hydrolysis

TL;DR: In this paper, a deep eutectic solvent combined with subcritical water extraction of seaweed polysaccharides was investigated from Saccharina japonica, and a Box-Behnken design was used to study the influences of the temperature (100°C −150°C), pressure (10−50 bar), water content (50% −70%), and liquid/solid (L/S) ratio (30 −50′mL/g).
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Physical Biology of the Materials–Microorganism Interface

TL;DR: This Perspective highlights the state-of-the-art and outlines future research paths to inform the cadre of spectroscopists, electrochemists, bioinorganic chemists, material scientists, and biologists who will ultimately solve the mysteries of material-microorganism interface.
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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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