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Biocompatibility of hydrogel-based scaffolds for tissue engineering applications

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This review will aid in the improvement of design of non-invasive, smart hydrogels that can be utilized for tissue engineering and other biomedical applications and a future outlook of the field of biocompatibility within the context of hydrogel-based scaffolds is concluded.
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This article is published in Biotechnology Advances.The article was published on 2017-09-01. It has received 500 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Self-healing hydrogels & Biocompatibility.

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Carboxymethyl chitosan: Properties and biomedical applications.

TL;DR: The most recent applications of CMC derivatives with antimicrobial, anticancer, antitumor, antioxidant and antifungal biological activities in various areas like wound healing, tissue engineering, drug/enzyme delivery, bioimaging and cosmetics are highlighted.
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Functional Supramolecular Polymeric Networks: The Marriage of Covalent Polymers and Macrocycle-Based Host-Guest Interactions

TL;DR: This Review summarizes advances made in the area of functional SPNs, with a focus on original literature reports appearing in the past five years, and is organized according to the key macrocycle-based host-guest interactions used to produce various SPNs.
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Self-Healing Hydrogels: The Next Paradigm Shift in Tissue Engineering?

TL;DR: The recent progress in the development of multifunctional and self‐healable hydrogels for various tissue engineering applications is discussed in detail and their potential applications within the rapidly expanding areas of bioelectronics, cyborganics, and soft robotics are highlighted.
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Decellularized Extracellular Matrix-based Bioinks for Engineering Tissue- and Organ-specific Microenvironments.

TL;DR: This review aims to discuss a new paradigm of dECM-based bioinks able to recapitulate the inherent microenvironmental niche in 3D cell-printed constructs and a basic set of fundamental criteria for printing functional human tissues and organs.
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Carbon-based hybrid nanogels: a synergistic nanoplatform for combined biosensing, bioimaging, and responsive drug delivery

TL;DR: A vast number of studies have been pursued to explore the applications of carbon-based hybrid nanogels in biomedical areas for biosensing, bioimaging, and smart drug carriers with combinatorial therapies and/or theranostic ability.
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Tissue engineering : Frontiers in biotechnology

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Tissue Cells Feel and Respond to the Stiffness of Their Substrate

TL;DR: An understanding of how tissue cells—including fibroblasts, myocytes, neurons, and other cell types—sense matrix stiffness is just emerging with quantitative studies of cells adhering to gels with which elasticity can be tuned to approximate that of tissues.
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Porosity of 3D biomaterial scaffolds and osteogenesis.

TL;DR: New fabrication techniques, such as solid-free form fabrication, can potentially be used to generate scaffolds with morphological and mechanical properties more selectively designed to meet the specificity of bone-repair needs.
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Scaffolds in tissue engineering bone and cartilage.

TL;DR: Research on the tissue engineering of bone and cartilage from the polymeric scaffold point of view is reviews from a biodegradable and bioresorbable perspective.
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Hydrogels for tissue engineering: scaffold design variables and applications.

TL;DR: Hydrogels are an appealing scaffold material because they are structurally similar to the extracellular matrix of many tissues, can often be processed under relatively mild conditions, and may be delivered in a minimally invasive manner.
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