Advances in the field of soft tissue engineering

Interaction of Tissue Engineering Substrates with Serum Proteins and Its Influence on Human Primary Endothelial Cells

“…The past decades have witnessed significant advances in regenerative medicine, tissue engineering, wound healing angiogenesis and vascular or orthopedic surgery. − Besides enormous contributions from cell biology and medicine, many of these advances were based on understanding and designing the physicochemical properties and biological efficacy or inertness of biomaterials. Investigating the chemical, physical and biological influence of cellular activity, scaffolds, implants, vascular grafts, sutures, or wound dressings was always crucial for successful applications or further improvements of their properties. , Most of the material parameters are governed by molecular interactions at the interface between the living biological system and the biomaterial. − An in-depth understanding of their surface chemistry is therefore a key for the discovery of new phenomena and the exploitation in the form of new products .…”

A novel approach of encapsulating curcumin and succinylated derivative in mannosylated-chitosan nanoparticles

“…For the encapsulated conjugate (CUR.SA-NPs), the size was highest (342 ± 4.6 nm), with a PDI of 0.137 ± 0.043 and zeta potential of 13.6 ± 0.8 mV. Due to its excellent crosslinking functionality and nontoxicity, STPP has been widely used to formulate CS nanoparticles (Ficai, Albu, Sonmez, Ficai, & Andronescu, 2016;Tarhini, Badri, Greige-Gerges, Fessi, & Elaissari, 2021). Medium MW CS has previously been used to encapsulate CUR, but resulted in the formation of microparticulate (Pooresmaeil & Namazi, 2020).…”

Recent progress, synthesis, and application of chitosan-decorated magnetic nanocomposites in remediation of dye-laden wastewaters

“…Among these, TPP is the most frequently deployed multivalent ion for cross-linking with chitosan, in view of its compatible physical and chemical properties and capability to form gels by ionic interactions in the presence of various agents. These interactions are often governed by the charge density of TPP and chitosan, which in turn is dictated by the solution pH, 104 a pH ∼ 5.0 being the most stable. Moreover, a higher TPP concentration leads to smaller particles at a fixed chitosan concentration.…”