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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Dealing with the Foreign-Body Response to Implanted Biomaterials: Strategies and Applications of New Materials
TL;DR: Three types of promising foreign‐body response resisting materials are focused and the advantages, characteristics, and applications of each material are discussed.
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Applications of alginate microspheres in therapeutics delivery and cell culture: Past, present and future.
TL;DR: An inclusive summary of the currently available methods for the formulation of AMS, its recent use in the encapsulation and delivery of therapeutics, and future outlook will be discussed.
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Advances in functionalizing fucoidans and alginates (bio)polymers by structural modifications: A review
TL;DR: The present review encloses a comprehensive overview of recent developments in alginates and fucoidans derivatization methods such as controlled degradation, cross-linking, oxidation, substitution of different functional groups and co-polymerizing techniques.
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Multifunctional Hydrogels Prepared by Dual Ion Cross-Linking for Chronic Wound Healing
TL;DR: In vitro results reveal that the composite hydrogel stimulated proliferation and migration of both human dermal fibroblasts and human umbilical vein endothelial cells, and in vivo results show that the wound-healing process is obviously enhanced, and the formation of epithelium and blood vessels are evidently advanced.
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Sericin/Dextran Injectable Hydrogel as an Optically Trackable Drug Delivery System for Malignant Melanoma Treatment
Jia Liu,Chao Qi,Kaixiong Tao,Jinxiang Zhang,Jian Zhang,Luming Xu,Xulin Jiang,Yunti Zhang,Lei Huang,Qilin Li,Hongjian Xie,Jinbo Gao,Xiaoming Shuai,Guobin Wang,Zheng Wang,Lin Wang +15 more
TL;DR: The work demonstrates the efficacy of this drug delivery system, and the in vivo effectiveness of this sericin-based optical monitoring strategy, providing a potential approach for improving hydrogel design toward optimal efficiency and safety of chemotherapies, which may be widely applicable to other drug delivery systems.
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