Tissue engineering scaffolds chitosan

Chitosan A Promising Biomaterial for Tissue Engineering Scaffolds... 

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Natural polymers such as collagen, elastin, and fibrin make up much of the body s native extracellular matrix (ECM), and they were explored as platforms for tissue engineered constructs [34,47 9]. Polysaccharides such as chitosan, starch, alginate, and dextran were also studied for these purposes. Simultaneously, silk fibroin was widely explored for vascular applications due to its higher mechanical properties in comparison to other natural polymers, such as fibrin [48]. The utilization of natural polymers to create tissue-engineered scaffolds has yielded promising results, both in vitro and in vivo, due in part to the enhanced bioactivity provided by materials normally found within the human body [50]. However, their mechanical response is usually below the required values therefore, synthetic polymers have been explored to achieve the desired properties. 

Jing, X., Mi, H.Y., Peng, J., Peng, X.F., Tumg, L.S., 2015. Electrospun aligned poly(propylene carbonate) microflbers with chitosan nanofibers as tissue engineering scaffolds. Carbohydrate Polymers 117, 941-949. 

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