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ReviewChemical reviews2021

Chemically Modified Biopolymers for the Formation of Biomedical Hydrogels.

Victoria G Muir, Jason A Burdick

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Review in Chemical reviews, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 150 papers.

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150citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

150 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Thiolated Polymers in 3D Bioprinting: Control of Gelation.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026
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  10. Sprayable Hydrogel Dressings in Wound-Healing Applications.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Victoria G MuirDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States.
Jason A BurdickDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-2006-332X

Funding

Dynamic Fibrous Scaffolds for Repairing Dense Connective TissuesR01AR056624 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Jason A Burdick, Robert L Mauck · 2009 to 2026
$7.5M
Engineered Developmental Microenvironments: Cartilage Formation and MaturationR01AR077362 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI BURDICK, JASON A, MAUCK, ROBERT L · 2020 to 2024
$2.5M
NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR056624NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR077362
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biopolymers are natural polymers sourced from plants and animals, which include a variety of polysaccharides and polypeptides. The inclusion of biopolymers into biomedical hydrogels is of great interest because of their inherent biochemical and biophysical properties, such as cellular adhesion, degradation, and viscoelasticity. The objective of this Review is to provide a detailed overview of the design and development of biopolymer hydrogels for biomedical applications, with an emphasis on biopolymer chemical modifications and cross-linking methods. First, the fundamentals of biopolymers and chemical conjugation methods to introduce cross-linking groups are described. Cross-linking methods to form biopolymer networks are then discussed in detail, including (i) covalent cross-linking (e.g., free radical chain polymerization, click cross-linking, cross-linking due to oxidation of phenolic groups), (ii) dynamic covalent cross-linking (e.g., Schiff base formation, disulfide formation, reversible Diels-Alder reactions), and (iii) physical cross-linking (e.g., guest-host interactions, hydrogen bonding, metal-ligand coordination, grafted biopolymers). Finally, recent advances in the use of chemically modified biopolymer hydrogels for the biofabrication of tissue scaffolds, therapeutic delivery, tissue adhesives and sealants, as well as the formation of interpenetrating network biopolymer hydrogels, are highlighted.

Indexed as

HydrogelsTissue ScaffoldsAnimalsBiopolymersCell AdhesionPolysaccharidesBiopolymersHydrogelsPolysaccharides

Identifiers

PMID33356174
PMCPMC8943712

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