Regenerative medicine biomedical application

Polymers derived from plants and animal kingdoms have been widely researched as biomaterials for a variety of biomedical applications including drug delivery and regenerative medicine. These polymers have biochemical similarity with human ECM components and hence are readily accepted by the body. Additionally, these polymers... 

Keywords Biomedical applications Regenerative medicine Supramolecular hydrogels Translational research... 

There is a significant amount of research on the applications of materials derived from renewable materials with enhanced performance and biocompatibility in regenerative medicine. It is expected that other novel applications of CNCs, cationic CNCs, and CHNCs will be discovered in the biomedical field in the near future. The application of non-toxic, biodegradable, and biocompatible materials for various applications is of great importance from an environmental point of view. The presence of several functional groups on the surface of these nanoctystals allows for their... 

Committee on the Biological and Biomedical Applications of Stem Cell Research. Stem Cells and the Puture of Regenerative Medicine. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 2002. Also available with WEBACCESS. 

Much more challenging seems to be their biomedical application, for instance, in the field of regenerative medicine. The need for scaffold materials suitable for tissue engineering... 

Costa, S. A., H. S. Azevedo, and R. L. Reis. 2005. Enzyme Immobilization in Biodegradable Polymers for Biomedical Applications. In Biodegradable Systems in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, edited by R. L. Reis and J. San Roman, 301-323. CRC Press. 

Costa, S.A., Azevedo, H.S., and Reis, R.L. (2005) Enzyme immobilization in biodegradable polymers for biomedical applications, in Biodegradable Systems in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (eds R.L. Reis and J.S. Roman), CRC Press, Boca Raton, EL, pp. 301-323. 

Much more challenging seems to be their biomedical application, for instance, in the field of regenerative medicine. The need for scaffold materials suitable for tissue eiigiiieering is growing. Taking into account the fact that the scaffold performance depends on the surface of the scaffolding materials, nanofibrils are an excellent candidate for this job. In addition, the NFC approach can be applied to biodegradable and biocompatible polymei-s. Such experiments star ted some yeai-s ago [74]. 

Biodegradable synthetic polymers find their biomedical applications mostly in tissue engineering, to provide temporary structure support, regenerative medicine, or in controlled gene and drug delivery [24]. 

---