Regenerative medicine cellulose

Besides the naturally occurring cationic PS chitin and chitosan, a huge variety of semi-synthetic products is available, which are based on anchoring cationic groups onto the polysaccharide backbone. Examples include cationic starch and cationic cellulose derivatives, which are widely used for industrial purposes (cationic starch in paper ) and also in medical applications (cationic cellulose as additives, e.g. JR-400 and Quatrisoft LM-200 in hygienic products). However, applications in regenerative medicine are rather poorly developed for these materials and therefore a discussion is excluded at this point. 

Polysaccharides include cellulose, alginate, hyaluronic acid, starches, dextran, heparin, chitin, and chitosan, and many of these have been used in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine (Lee et al. 

Yadav, V., Sun, L., Panilaitis, B., Kaplan, D.L., 2013. In vitro chondrogenesis with lysozyme susceptible bacterial cellulose as a scaffold. Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine 9 (12), 276-288. 

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