Bacterial cellulose tissue engineering scaffolds

Li, J., Wan, Y, Li, L., Liang, H., Wang, J., 2009. Preparation and characterization of 2, 3-dialdehyde bacterial cellulose for potential biodegradable tissue engineering scaffolds. Materials Science and Engineering C 29 (5), 1635-1642. 

Svensson, A., Nicklasson, E., Harrah, T., Panilaitis, B., Kaplan, D.L., Brittberg, M., Gatenholm, R, 2005. Bacterial cellulose as apotential scaffold for tissue engineering of cartilage. Biomaterials 26 (4), 419-431. 

M., and Gatenholm, P. (2005). Bacterial cellulose as a potential scaffold for tissue engineering of cartilage, 26,419-431. 

Bacterial cellulose has a wide range of potential biomedical applications such as tissue engineered cartilage scaffolds [142, 143] wound dressing [144—148]... 

A. Svensson, E. Nicklasson, T. Harrah, B. Panilaitis, D. L. Kaplan, M. Brittberg, and P. Catenholm, Bacterial cellulose as a potential scaffold for tissue engineering of cartilage. Biomaterials 26(4), 419-431 (2005). 

Bacterial cellulose (BC)/HAp nanocomposites were examined by Wan et al. [279]. The most striking features of BC are its high mechanical sdength and modulus, as well as its biodegradability. Compared with other natural biodegradable polymers, BC presents much better mechanical properties, which are required in most cases when used as scaffold in tissue engineering. Compared with animal-derived polymers, BC is free of any occurrence of cross-infection that can be associated with collagen [276]. The authors found that there are different interactions between unphosphorylated and phosphorylated BC fibres and HAp, as shown schematically in Fig. 26. 

PU is a strong, hard-wearing, tear-resistant, flexible, oil-resistant, and blood-compatible polymer. The functional properties of natural macromolecules can be merged with those of synthetic polymers having controllable structures and properties for the production of polymer/protein hybrids. In tissue engineering, silk fibroin/PU blend film can be used as scaffold material for artificial blood vessels [466] (Figure 2.62). Bacterial synthesized cellulose, which was designed... 

Backdahl, H., Esguerra, M., Delbro, D., Risberg, B., Gatenholm, R, 2008. Engineering microporosity in bacterial cellulose scaffolds. Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medidne 2 (6), 320-330. 

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