Natural Biopolymers for Bone Tissue Engineering: A Brief Review
June 2023
•The review emphasizes the critical characteristics such as structure, degradability, and, the biocompatibility of natural biopolymers for bone tissue engineering.•The document embraces the information...
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Recent advances in small incision lenticule extraction (SMILE)-derived refractive lenticule preservation and clinical reuse
June 2023
•SMILE-derived lenticules, which used to be the byproduct of SMILE surgery, have now become a huge potential biomaterial in treating various eye diseases, such as refractive error, keratoconus, and...
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Engineering strategies of islet products for endocrine regeneration
June 2023
•Providing a general understanding of engineering challenges in islet transplantation.•Summarizing the cutting edge of engineering technologies for islet-related products.•Brief introduction of human...
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Biomimetic selenium nanosystems for infectious wound healing
June 2023
•The red blood cell membrane-encapsulated selenium nanoparticles (SeNPs) were spherical with a uniform core-shell structure.•The encapsulation of red blood cell membrane enables the nanoparticles with...
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X-reality for phantom limb management for amputees: A systematic review and meta-analysis
June 2023
•This review included 16 articles that managed phantom limb using X-reality interventions.•Virtual (11), augmented (4), and mixed reality (1) were applied for phantom limb management.•X-reality can...
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Emerging microfluidic technologies for sperm sorting
June 2023
•A broad range of researches about sperm sorting with microfluidics were reviewed, and were classified into three types according to the sorting principle.•The properties of sperm and female reproductive...
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Supplemental mineral ions for bone regeneration and osteoporosis treatment
June 2023
•Summary on all the potentially beneficial nutrition elements for bone regeneration.•Daily supplementation suggestions and dose guidance of these nutrition elements.•In vitro and in vivo models and...
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Treatment of Alzheimer's disease by microcapsule regulates neurotransmitter release via microfluidic technology
June 2023
•The microfludics electrospray technologies were recruited to overcome limitations associated with variability during microcapsule production and generate functional microcapsules.•In vivo and in vitro...
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Structure and mechanics of native and decellularized porcine cranial dura mater
June 2023
•Dura mater is decellularized using the SDS decellularization protocol.•There are significant differences in the DNA content of native and decellularized tissues.•There is a sustained tissue thickness,...
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Conductive PS inverse opals for regulating proliferation and differentiation of neural stem cells
June 2023
•The conductive and anisotropic inverse opal substrate is fabricated by modifying polystyrene inverse opal films with carbon nanotubes and then stretching them to varying degrees.•The conductive and...
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Bioactive 3D-printed chitosan-based scaffolds for personalized craniofacial bone tissue engineering
March 2023
•3D-printing of chitosan-based hydrogel.•Increase in pore size and porosity was observed in the 3D-printed scaffolds containing hydroxyapatite.•Hydroxyapatite incorporation increased apatite formation...
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Orthotopic implantable liver decellularized scaffold for acute liver failure
March 2023
•The natural morphology of the decellularized constructs is preserved by whole liver perfusion decellularization technique.•The whole liver perfused decellularized scaffold exhibit a superior bio-mechanical...
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Aquaculture derived hybrid skin patches for wound healing
March 2023
•The proposed patches are based on the derivatives of fish and crabs.•The acellular fish skin present porous surface for drug loading.•The patch owns brilliant biocompatibility, antibacterial and angiogenesis...
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Polylysine complexes and their biomedical applications
March 2023
•This review summarized the advanced development of the synthesis strategies of PLL•This review introduces the biomedical fields, where PLL are mainly utilized, such as cargo delivery, tissue adhesives,...
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Dual ultra-wideband (UWB) radar-based sleep posture recognition system: Towards ubiquitous sleep monitoring
March 2023
•Dual radar performs better than single radar in classification.•Random forest with predetermined statistical features yielded 0.887 accuracy.•Deep learning classifiers doesn't not necessarily perform...
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Management of post-stroke depression (PSD) by electroencephalography for effective rehabilitation
March 2023
•In this study, we provided a unique and systematic review on the most related literature of the clinical applications of EEG for PSD and offered a cross-section that is useful for determining optimal...
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Advanced surgical technologies for lung cancer treatment: Current status and perspectives
March 2023
•The common lung cancer and their treatment methods are introduced.•Various emerging surgery methods used to lung cancer are summarized.•Application of imaging guided nanotechnology in lung cancer surgery...
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Chronic wounds: pathological characteristics and their stem cell-based therapies
March 2023
•Give a detailed introduction of the pathological process involved in chronic wound healing and the mechanism of SCs in promoting chronic wound repair.•Highlight recent SC-based therapies for chronic...
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Spinal cord conduits for spinal cord injury regeneration
March 2023
•The classification of spinal cord conduits for spinal cord injury repair were concluded.•The various sources and crosslinking methods for producing spinal cord conduits were reviewed.•The therapeutic...
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Advances in antioxidative nanozymes for treating ischemic stroke
March 2023
•The characteristics of antioxidative nanozymes are dissertated.•The classes and properties of antioxidative nanozymes are discussed.•The recent advances of antioxidative nanozymes for treating ischemic...
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Autophagy mediates osteoporotic bone regeneration induced by micro-/nano-structured modification on hydroxyapatite bioceramics
Available online 20 March 2023
•Micro-/nano-structured surface played biophysical cues to regulate osteoporotic osteogenesis.•Micro-/nano-structured surface stimulated osteogenesis mediated by autophagy approach.•The mnHA scaffold...
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Heparinized PGA host-guest hydrogel loaded with paracrine products from electrically stimulated adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells for enhanced wound repair
Available online 17 March 2023
•Appropriate electrical stimulation could boost the paracrine function of adipose derived stem cells.•Heparinized host-guest PGA hydrogel loaded with paracrine factors could effectively benefit the...
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Strontium doped electrospinning fiber membrane with antibacterial and osteogenic properties prepared by pulse electrochemical method
December 2022
•Composite fibers were prepared by electrostatic spinning and pulse electrochemical deposition.•PPy controls the slow release of Sr2+ and Cu2+ for a long time.•Good physiological stability and long-term...
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Adsorptive carbon-based materials for biomedical applications
December 2022
•Adsorptive carbon-based materials have emerged as favorable candidates in biomedical adsorption or enrichment.•The classification and fabrication strategies of carbon-based materials are presented.•The...
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UV-induced senescence of human dermal fibroblasts restrained by low-stiffness matrix by inhibiting NF-κB activation
December 2022
•PDMS substrates with tunable stiffness coated by fibronectin are rational designed and fabricated.•HDFs were more sensitive to UV induced ROS accumulation and cell senescence on stiff substrates.•Soft...
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