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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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Hyaluronic Acid as a Bioink for Extrusion-Based 3D Printing

TL;DR: The available literature is presented based on subjects including: rheological properties in connection with printability, the chemical strategies for endowing HA the desired properties, the clinical application investigated, the most advanced preclinical studies, advantages and limitations in comparison with similar biopolymer-based (bio)inks and future perspectives.
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Towards a better understanding on agglomeration mechanisms and thermodynamic properties of TiO2 nanoparticles interacting with natural organic matter

TL;DR: The results indicate that strong TiO2-alginate interactions are essentially entropy driven and enthalpically favorable with exothermic binding reactions.
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Contributions of exopolysaccharides from lactic acid bacteria as biotechnological tools in food, pharmaceutical, and medical applications.

TL;DR: Exopolysaccharides (EPS) are important bioproducts produced by some genera of lactic acid bacteria and they have many prospective and well-established contributions in the field of drugs and diagnostic industry.
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Liver tissue engineering: From implantable tissue to whole organ engineering

TL;DR: Preclinical work performed in recent years has shown promising results, and the advancement in the biotechnology of bioreactors, ex vivo perfusion machines, and cell expansion systems associated with a better understanding of liver development and the extracellular matrix microenvironment will facilitate and expedite the translation to technical applications.
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Recent developments of functional scaffolds for craniomaxillofacial bone tissue engineering applications.

TL;DR: Recent trends of scaffolds for crania-maxillofacial bone tissue engineering are reviewed, including studies on regeneration of the physiological bone that simultaneously fulfills both morphological and functional restorations.
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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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