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ReviewPolymers2021

Nature-Based Biomaterials and Their Application in Biomedicine.

Eoin Troy, Maura A Tilbury, Anne Marie Power, J Gerard Wall

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Review in Polymers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers.

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53citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

53 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Eoin TroyMicrobiology, College of Science and Engineering, National University of Ireland, NUI Galway, H91 TK33 Galway, Ireland.
Maura A TilburyMicrobiology, College of Science and Engineering, National University of Ireland, NUI Galway, H91 TK33 Galway, Ireland.
Anne Marie PowerZoology, School of Natural Sciences, NUI Galway, H91 TK33 Galway, Ireland.
J Gerard WallMicrobiology, College of Science and Engineering, National University of Ireland, NUI Galway, H91 TK33 Galway, Ireland.

Funding

European Commission COST Action CA15216Health Research Board Ireland COV19-2020-081NUI Galway MSc Biotechnology ProgrammeScience Foundation Ireland 13/RC/2073
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Natural polymers, based on proteins or polysaccharides, have attracted increasing interest in recent years due to their broad potential uses in biomedicine. The chemical stability, structural versatility, biocompatibility and high availability of these materials lend them to diverse applications in areas such as tissue engineering, drug delivery and wound healing. Biomaterials purified from animal or plant sources have also been engineered to improve their structural properties or promote interactions with surrounding cells and tissues for improved in vivo performance, leading to novel applications as implantable devices, in controlled drug release and as surface coatings. This review describes biomaterials derived from and inspired by natural proteins and polysaccharides and highlights their promise across diverse biomedical fields. We outline current therapeutic applications of these nature-based materials and consider expected future developments in identifying and utilising innovative biomaterials in new biomedical applications.

Indexed as

alginatebiomaterialcellulosechitosancollagendrug deliverygelatinescaffoldsilktissue engineering

Identifiers

PMID34641137
PMCPMC8513057

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