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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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Chitins and chitosans for the repair of wounded skin, nerve, cartilage and bone

TL;DR: The introduction of azido functions in chitosan has provided photo-sensitive hydrogels for surgical use as coatings, scaffolds, drug carriers and implants capable to deliver cells and growth factors, which remain unmatched by other polysaccharides.
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Three-dimensional cell culture matrices: state of the art.

TL;DR: This review presents the status of state-of-the-art 3D cell-growth techniques and scaffolds and analyze them from the perspective of materials properties, manufacturing, and functionality and outlines key challenges in this field.
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Alginate-Based Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine Applications.

TL;DR: This review focuses on recent advances in the use of alginate and its derivatives in the field of biomedical applications, including wound healing, cartilage repair, bone regeneration and drug delivery, which have potential in tissue regeneration applications.
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Inkjet printing of viable mammalian cells.

TL;DR: The computer-aided inkjet printing of viable mammalian cells holds potential for creating living tissue analogs, and may eventually lead to the construction of engineered human organs.
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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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