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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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Designing hydrogels for controlled drug delivery.

TL;DR: This Review discusses how different mechanisms interact and can be integrated to exert fine control in time and space over the drug presentation, and collects experimental release data from the literature and presents quantitative comparisons between different systems to provide guidelines for the rational design of hydrogel delivery systems.
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Alginate derivatization: a review of chemistry, properties and applications.

TL;DR: Progress towards controlled synthesis of alginate derivatives, and the properties and applications of these derivatives are reviewed.
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3D Bioprinting Human Chondrocytes with Nanocellulose-Alginate Bioink for Cartilage Tissue Engineering Applications

TL;DR: A bioink that combines the outstanding shear thinning properties of nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC) with the fast cross-linking ability of alginate with the potential use of nanocellulose for 3D bioprinting of living tissues and organs is formulated.
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A review on polymeric hydrogel membranes for wound dressing applications: PVA-based hydrogel dressings

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the past and current efforts with a brief description on the featured properties of hydrogel membranes fabricated from biopolymers and synthetic ones for wound dressing applications.
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Comparison of vascular endothelial growth factor and basic fibroblast growth factor on angiogenesis in SCID mice

TL;DR: This study has used alginate hydrogels as localized delivery vehicles for VEGF and bFGF, and compared the ability of these factors to promote new blood vessel formation in the subcutaneous tissue of severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) mice.
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Evaluation of a novel alginate gel dressing: Cytotoxicity to fibroblasts in vitro and foreign‐body reaction in pig skin in vivo

TL;DR: A novel freeze-dried alginate gel dressing (AGA-100) low in calcium ions was evaluated for cytotoxicity to L929 cells in vitro and in full-thickness pig wounds in vivo and was found to be useful as anAlginate dressing.
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Hydrogels for combination delivery of antineoplastic agents.

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