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ReviewFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2021

Modern World Applications for Nano-Bio Materials: Tissue Engineering and COVID-19.

Elda M Melchor-Martínez, Nora E Torres Castillo, Rodrigo Macias-Garbett, Sofia Liliana Lucero-Saucedo, Roberto Parra-Saldívar, Juan Eduardo Sosa-Hernández

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Review in Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Elda M Melchor-MartínezTecnologico de Monterrey, School of Engineering and Sciences, Monterrey, Mexico.
Nora E Torres CastilloTecnologico de Monterrey, School of Engineering and Sciences, Monterrey, Mexico.
Rodrigo Macias-GarbettTecnologico de Monterrey, School of Engineering and Sciences, Monterrey, Mexico.
Sofia Liliana Lucero-SaucedoTecnologico de Monterrey, School of Engineering and Sciences, Monterrey, Mexico.
Roberto Parra-SaldívarTecnologico de Monterrey, School of Engineering and Sciences, Monterrey, Mexico.
Juan Eduardo Sosa-HernándezTecnologico de Monterrey, School of Engineering and Sciences, Monterrey, Mexico.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Over the past years, biomaterials-based nano cues with multi-functional characteristics have been engineered with high interest. The ease in fine tunability with maintained compliance makes an array of nano-bio materials supreme candidates for the biomedical sector of the modern world. Moreover, the multi-functional dimensions of nano-bio elements also help to maintain or even improve the patients' life quality most securely by lowering or diminishing the adverse effects of in practice therapeutic modalities. Therefore, engineering highly efficient, reliable, compatible, and recyclable biomaterials-based novel corrective cues with multipurpose applications is essential and a core demand to tackle many human health-related challenges, e.g., the current COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, robust engineering design and properly exploited nano-bio materials deliver wide-ranging openings for experimentation in the field of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary scientific research. In this context, herein, it is reviewed the applications and potential on tissue engineering and therapeutics of COVID-19 of several biomaterials. Following a brief introduction is a discussion of the drug delivery routes and mechanisms of biomaterials-based nano cues with suitable examples. The second half of the review focuses on the mainstream applications changing the dynamics of 21st century materials. In the end, current challenges and recommendations are given for a healthy and foreseeable future.

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biomaterialsbiomedical applicationsCOVID-19 therapydrug delivery systemfabrication strategiesmultifunctional entitiestissue engineering

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PMID34055754
PMCPMC8160436

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