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Hydrogels for tissue engineering.

Kuen Yong Lee, +1 more
- 31 May 2001 - 
- Vol. 101, Iss: 7, pp 1869-1879
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This article is published in Chemical Reviews.The article was published on 2001-05-31. It has received 4511 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Self-healing hydrogels.

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Chitosan composites with inorganics, morphogenetic proteins and stem cells, for bone regeneration

TL;DR: Major aspects of chemical relevance are composition, porosity, surface area and topography of the composites, along with degree of acetylation, molecular size, purity and chemical modification of chitosan.
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Jet-based methods to print living cells.

TL;DR: This review article summarizes the state‐of‐the‐art cell printing techniques that utilize fluid jetting phenomena to deposit 2‐ and 3‐D patterns of living eukaryotic cells, while providing a map for future experiments that could lead to significant advances in the field of tissue engineering.
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Synthesis of Anisotropic Hydrogels and Their Applications.

TL;DR: This Minireview highlights the use and perspectives of anisotropic hydrogels, particularly focusing on their preparation, structures, and applications, which play essential roles in biological systems to exhibit particular functions.
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Stimuli-responsive hydrogels in drug delivery and tissue engineering

TL;DR: Different literatures on stimuli-sensitive hydrogels, such as role of temperature, electric potential, pH and ionic strength to control the release of drug from hydrogel are reviewed.
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Injectable Hydrogels for Cardiac Tissue Repair after Myocardial Infarction.

TL;DR: An overview of various natural and synthetic hydrogels for potential application as injectable Hydrogels in cardiac tissue repair and regeneration is presented to help guide the future research on injectable hydrogel for translational therapeutic applications in regeneration of cardiac tissue after MI.
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Tissue engineering : Frontiers in biotechnology

R. Langer, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1993 - 
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Solution Properties of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)

TL;DR: In this paper, a lower critical solution temperature of poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide was found to be due to an entropy effect, which was attributed to the formation of nonpolar and intermolecular hydrogen bonds.
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Polymeric Systems for Controlled Drug Release

TL;DR: Kevin Shakesheff investigates new methods of engineering polymer surfaces and the application of these engineered materials in drug delivery and tissue engineering.
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Alginate hydrogels as synthetic extracellular matrix materials

TL;DR: Alginate may prove to be an ideal material with which to confer specific cellular interactive properties, potentially allowing for the control of long-term gene expression of cells within these matrices.
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Biodegradable block copolymers as injectable drug-delivery systems

TL;DR: The synthesis of a thermosensitive, biodegradable hydrogel consisting of blocks of poly(ethylene oxide) and poly(L-lactic acid) and aqueous solutions of these copolymers exhibit temperature-dependent reversible gel–sol transitions.
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