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Gao F, Jiang H, Wang D, Wang S, Song W. Bio‐Inspired Magnetic‐Responsive Supramolecular‐Covalent Semi‐Convertible Hydrogel. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2024; 36:e2401645. [PMID: 38754860 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202401645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2024] [Revised: 05/13/2024] [Indexed: 05/18/2024]
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Bio-inspired magnetic-responsive hydrogel is confined in exceedingly narrow spaces for soft robots and biomedicine in either gel state or magnetofluidic sol state. However, the motion of the gel state magnetic hydrogel will be inhibited in various irregular spaces due to the fixed shape and size and the sol-state magnetofluid gel may bring unpredictable residues in the confined narrow space. Inspired by the dynamic liquid lubricating mechanism of biological systems, novel magnetic-responsive semi-convertible hydrogel (MSCH) is developed through imbedding magnetic-responsive gelatin and amino-modified Fe3O4 nanoparticles network into the covalent network of polyvinyl alcohol, which can be switched between gel state and gel-sol state in response to magnetic stimuli. It can be attributed the disassembly of triple-helix structures of the gelatin under the action of the magnetic field, driven by force from the magnetic particles conjugated on the gelatin chain through electrostatic interactions, while the covalent network retains the hydrogel structural integrity. This leads to a sol layer on the MSCH surface enabling the MSCH to pass effectively through the confined channel or obstacle under magnetic field. The present MSCH will provide an alternative mode for magnetic field-related soft robots or actuators.
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- Feng Gao
- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, P. R. China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Materials and Interfacial Science, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, P. R. China
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El Moujahed S, Errachidi F, Morosanu AM, Abou Oualid H, Avramescu SM, Dragoi Cudalbeanu M, Ouazzani Chahdi F, Kandri Rodi Y, Dinica RM. Sustainable Collagen Film Preparation with Tannins Extracted from Moroccan Pomegranate Byproduct Varieties: Thermal, Structural, and Nanoscaled Studies. ACS OMEGA 2024; 9:27428-27437. [PMID: 38947794 PMCID: PMC11209680 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.4c02321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2024] [Revised: 05/20/2024] [Accepted: 05/23/2024] [Indexed: 07/02/2024]
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Recently, obtaining collagen films using a cross-linking technique has been a successful strategy. The current investigation used six cross-linker extracts (CE) from six different pomegranate varieties' byproducts to make and characterize collagen-tannin films using acid-soluble collagen (SC). The polymeric film has a yellow hue after CE incorporation. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy assessed the impact of CE and its successful interaction within the matrix. The shifts verify different interactions between extracts and collagen functional groups, where they likely form new hydrogen bonds, retaining their helix structure without damaging the matrix. Scanning electron microscopy was used to analyze the morphology and fiber size. The average diameter of the fibers was found to be about 3.64 μm. Thermal behaviors (denaturation and degradation) were investigated by thermogravimetric analysis. The weight losses of cross-linked films increased by around 20% compared to non-cross-linked ones. This phenomenon was explained by the absence of telopeptide sections in the collagen helical structure, typically reinforced by lysine and hydroxylysine covalent linkages. Nanoscaled observations were also accomplished using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) on SC and SC-CE. The TEM analysis confirmed the CE polymerization degree effect on the cross-linking density via the overlap sequences, ranging up to 32.38 ± 2.37 nm on the fibril. The prepared biodegradable collagen-tannin film showed higher cross-linking density, which is expected to improve the biomaterial applications of collagen films while exploiting the underrated pomegranate byproducts.
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- Sara El Moujahed
- Laboratory
of Applied Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences and Technologies, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez 30050, Morocco
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- Laboratory
of Functional Ecology and Engineering Environment, Faculty of Sciences
and Technologies, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah
University, Fez 30050, Morocco
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- Institute
of Biology Bucharest, Romanian Academy, Bucharest 060031, Romania
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- Department
of Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry and Catalysis, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Bucharest, Bucharest 050663, Romania
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- Faculty of
Land Reclamation and Environmental Engineering, University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest, Bucharest 011464, Romania
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- Laboratory
of Applied Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences and Technologies, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez 30050, Morocco
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- Laboratory
of Applied Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences and Technologies, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez 30050, Morocco
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- Laboratory
of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences and Environment, Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, Galati 800008, Romania
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Lan L, Ping J, Li H, Wang C, Li G, Song J, Ying Y. Skin-Inspired All-Natural Biogel for Bioadhesive Interface. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2024; 36:e2401151. [PMID: 38558183 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202401151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2024] [Revised: 03/27/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
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Natural material-based hydrogels are considered ideal candidates for constructing robust bio-interfaces due to their environmentally sustainable nature and biocompatibility. However, these hydrogels often encounter limitations such as weak mechanical strength, low water resistance, and poor ionic conductivity. Here, inspired by the role of natural moisturizing factor (NMF) in skin, a straightforward yet versatile strategy is proposed for fabricating all-natural ionic biogels that exhibit high resilience, ionic conductivity, resistance to dehydration, and complete degradability, without necessitating any chemical modification. A well-balanced combination of gelatin and sodium pyrrolidone carboxylic acid (an NMF compound) gives rise to a significant enhancement in the mechanical strength, ionic conductivity, and water retention capacity of the biogel compared to pure gelatin hydrogel. The biogel manifests temperature-controlled reversible fluid-gel transition properties attributed to the triple-helix junctions of gelatin, which enables in situ gelation on diverse substrates, thereby ensuring conformal contact and dynamic compliance with curved surfaces. Due to its salutary properties, the biogel can serve as an effective and biocompatible interface for high-quality and long-term electrophysiological signal recording. These findings provide a general and scalable approach for designing natural material-based hydrogels with tailored functionalities to meet diverse application needs.
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- Lingyi Lan
- College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, P. R. China
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- College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, P. R. China
- Innovation Platform of Micro/Nano Technology for Biosensing, ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 311215, P. R. China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, Institute of Cyber Systems and Control, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, P.R. China
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- Department of Engineering Mechanics and Soft Matter Research Center, Key Laboratory of Soft Machines and Smart Devices of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, P.R. China
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- The State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, Institute of Cyber Systems and Control, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, P.R. China
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- Department of Engineering Mechanics and Soft Matter Research Center, Key Laboratory of Soft Machines and Smart Devices of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, P.R. China
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- College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, P. R. China
- Innovation Platform of Micro/Nano Technology for Biosensing, ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 311215, P. R. China
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Cheng J, Wang R, Hu Y, Li M, You L, Wang S. Fermentation-inspired macroporous and tough gelatin/sodium alginate hydrogel for accelerated infected wound healing. Int J Biol Macromol 2024; 268:131905. [PMID: 38688346 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2024.131905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2024] [Revised: 04/15/2024] [Accepted: 04/24/2024] [Indexed: 05/02/2024]
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Gelatin and sodium alginate (SA) are two important biological macromolecules, exhibiting excellent biocompatibility and gel-forming ability. However, traditional SA and gelatin hydrogel displays limited mass transport, low porosity, instability, and poor mechanical properties extremely restricted their therapeutic effect and application scenarios. Herein, microbial fermentation and synergistic toughening strategies were used for preparing macroporous and tough hydrogel. The study investigated the fermentation and toughening conditions of hydrogel. The hydrogel composed of CaCl2 cross-linked physically network and EDC/NHS cross-linked covalently network, exhibiting significantly improved mechanical properties, and excellent recovery efficiency. In addition, the hydrogel has a hierarchical macroporous structure of 100-500 μm, demonstrating high porosity of 10 times, swelling rate of 1541.0 %, and high mass infiltration capability. Further, after Ag+ treatment, the macroporous hydrogel dressing showed outstanding biocompatibility. Compared with non-porous hydrogel, the resulting macroporous hydrogel dressing displayed high antibacterial and antioxidant properties. It could effectively alleviate intracellular ROS formation induced by H2O2.In vivo experiments indicated that it has significantly better effect than non-porous hydrogel in accelerating wound healing. The overall results suggest that the gelatin/SA-based macroporous and tough hydrogel proposed in this study holds excellent prospects for application in wound dressings.
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- Jing Cheng
- College of Chemical Engineering & College of Biological Science and Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China
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- College of Chemical Engineering & College of Biological Science and Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China
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- College of Chemical Engineering & College of Biological Science and Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China
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- College of Chemical Engineering & College of Biological Science and Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China
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- College of Chemical Engineering & College of Biological Science and Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China.
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- College of Chemical Engineering & College of Biological Science and Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China.
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Liang M, Liu Q, Chen Q, Wu Y, Wu C, Wang Y. Self-Assembling Gelatin-Curdlan Fibril Hydrogels for Oriented Neural Cell Growth. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2024; 16:15741-15751. [PMID: 38518114 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c17379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/24/2024]
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The ex vivo replication of the highly helical and fibril structures of load-bearing soft tissue is a challenging goal for the study of hydrogels. Inspired by nature, we prepared tissue-like physical gels based on curdlan and gelatin by self-assembly. The hybrid gels have a flexible fibril-matrix architecture, and the fibril orientation is highly tunable. The tensile strength of the gels can be tuned from ∼1.1 to ∼16.5 MPa. The coil-helix transition and nanofibril formation process in the self-assembly system was thoroughly investigated. These helical gels exhibit excellent cell compatibility, which supports adhesion and oriented growth of neural cells. Furthermore, the oriented nanofibrils in the gel are found to be associated with an upregulated expression of regeneration-related genes like N-cadherin (Cdh2) and neural growth factor (NGF). Owing to the strength and biomimetic structure, these gels have great potential in tissue engineering applications.
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- Minting Liang
- Institute of Biomedicine, Department of Cell Biology, College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Biomedicine, Department of Cell Biology, College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Biomedicine, Department of Cell Biology, College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Biomedicine, Department of Cell Biology, College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Biomedicine, Department of Cell Biology, College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Biomedicine, Department of Cell Biology, College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, People's Republic of China
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Venezia V, Portarapillo M, De Falco G, Sanchirico R, Luciani G, Di Benedetto A. Humic acids on fire? Physico-chemical, thermal, flammability features and extraction process of different humic acids in support of their possible applications. CHEMOSPHERE 2023; 344:140430. [PMID: 37832885 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.140430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2023] [Revised: 10/06/2023] [Accepted: 10/10/2023] [Indexed: 10/15/2023]
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Humic acids (HA) consist in a multitude of heterogeneous organic molecules surviving the biological and chemical degradation of both vegetal and animal biomasses. The great abundance and chemical richness of these residues make their valorisation one of the most promising approaches to move towards a circular economy. However, the heterogeneity of the biomass from which HA are extracted, as well as the production process, significantly affects the nature and the relative content of functional groups (i.e. quinones, phenols and carboxylic and hydroxyl moieties), eventually changing HA reactivity and ultimately determining their application field. Indeed, depending on their properties, these substances can be used as flame retardants in the case of pronounced resilience degree (i.e., absent or low reactivity), or as antioxidant or antimicrobial agents in the case of pronounced reactivity, thanks to their redox behaviour. In this work we investigated the flammable, the thermal and the physico-chemical features of HA extracted from different composted biomasses to identify the reactivity or the resiliency of these moieties. Several techniques, including flammability characterization (LIT and MIE), laser diffraction granulometry, TG, XRD analyses, FTIR spectroscopy on both solid and gaseous phases, and Raman spectroscopy were integrated to investigate the correlation among the safety parameters, the distributions of particle sizes, as well as the thermal, the chemical properties of HA powders and the influence of post-extraction processes on HA final properties.
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- Virginia Venezia
- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica, dei Materiali e della Produzione Industriale, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, P.le Tecchio 80, 80125, Napoli, Italy; Dipartimento di Strutture per l'Ingegneria e l'Architettura, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Via Claudio 21, 80125, Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica, dei Materiali e della Produzione Industriale, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, P.le Tecchio 80, 80125, Napoli, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica, dei Materiali e della Produzione Industriale, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, P.le Tecchio 80, 80125, Napoli, Italy
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- Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie per l'Energia e la Mobilità Sostenibili, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (STEMS-CNR), Piazzale V. Tecchio 80, 80125, Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica, dei Materiali e della Produzione Industriale, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, P.le Tecchio 80, 80125, Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica, dei Materiali e della Produzione Industriale, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, P.le Tecchio 80, 80125, Napoli, Italy
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Torres-Figueroa AV, de los Santos-Villalobos S, Rodríguez-Félix DE, Moreno-Salazar SF, Pérez-Martínez CJ, Chan-Chan LH, Ochoa-Meza A, del Castillo-Castro T. Physically and Chemically Cross-Linked Poly(vinyl alcohol)/Humic Acid Hydrogels for Agricultural Applications. ACS OMEGA 2023; 8:44784-44795. [PMID: 38046300 PMCID: PMC10688162 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.3c05868] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2023] [Revised: 10/13/2023] [Accepted: 10/31/2023] [Indexed: 12/05/2023]
Abstract
The preparation method of hydrogels has a significant effect on their structural and physicochemical properties. In this report, physically and chemically cross-linked poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) networks containing humic acid (HA) were alternatively prepared by autoclaving (AC) and through glutaraldehyde (GA) addition, respectively, for agricultural purposes. PVA/HA hydrogels were comparatively characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis, mechanical assays, scanning electron microscopy, swelling kinetics measurements, and water retention tests in soil. AC hydrogels showed a more homogeneous porous microstructure, higher swelling levels, and a better capacity to preserve the humidity of soil than those obtained by adding GA. Both PVA/HA hydrogels exhibited no phytotoxicity on cultivation trials of Sorghum sp., but the plant growth was promoted with the GA-cross-linked network as compared to the effect of the AC sample. The release behavior of urea was modified according to the preparation method of the PVA/HA hydrogels. After 3 days of sustained urea release, 91% of the fertilizer was delivered from the AC hydrogel, whereas a lower amount of 56% was released for the GA-cross-linked hydrogel. Beyond the advantages of applying PVA/HA hydrogels in the agricultural field, an appropriate method of preparing these materials endows them with specific properties according to the requirements of the target crop.
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- Ana V. Torres-Figueroa
- Departamento
de Investigación en Polímeros y Materiales, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo 83000, Mexico
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- Laboratorio
de Biotecnología del Recurso Microbiano, Departamento de Ciencias
Agronómicas y Veterinarias, Instituto
Tecnológico de Sonora, 5 de Febrero 818 Sur, Colonia Centro, Obregón 85000, Mexico
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- Departamento
de Investigación en Polímeros y Materiales, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo 83000, Mexico
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- Departamento
de Agricultura y Ganadería, Universidad
de Sonora, Carr. Bahía de Kino, Km. 21. Apartado Postal 305, Hermosillo, Sonora 83000, Mexico
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- Departamento
de Física, CONAHCyT, Universidad
de Sonora, Hermosillo 83000, Mexico
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- Departamento
de Agricultura y Ganadería, Universidad
de Sonora, Carr. Bahía de Kino, Km. 21. Apartado Postal 305, Hermosillo, Sonora 83000, Mexico
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- Departamento
de Investigación en Polímeros y Materiales, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo 83000, Mexico
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Joy S, Thomas NG. Gymnemic acid-conjugated gelatin scaffold for enhanced bone regeneration: A novel insight to tissue engineering. Biotechnol Appl Biochem 2023; 70:1652-1662. [PMID: 36942931 DOI: 10.1002/bab.2463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2022] [Revised: 02/07/2023] [Accepted: 02/25/2023] [Indexed: 03/23/2023]
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Bone tissue engineering deals with the design of bone scaffolds. The selection of porous scaffold for osteoblast attachment and suppression of microbial infections are the major challenges that were addressed by designing gelatin scaffolds conjugated with gymnemic acid. Gelatin scaffold was prepared by loading gymnemic acid and morphological characterization, porosity, water absorption behavior, and biocompatibility of the scaffold were studied. The scaffold was introduced to the rat calvarial bone defect (BD) and analyzed the serum C reactive protein, alkaline phosphatase activity, and histology for 1 month to study the reconstruction. Adult Sprague-Dawley rats were used as sham operated control, animal with BD, and animal with BD which was implanted with scaffold (BDMB). The scanning electron micrograph revealed porous nature of scaffold. There was no significant difference in water absorption ability of scaffold. The C reactive protein was not observed in the serum collected on the 5th day postsurgery, supported the biocompatibility. The alkaline phosphatase activity in BDMB was increased when compared with BD on 15th and 20th day and then decreased. New bone tissue formation was detected with hematoxylin-eosin staining. The scaffold is effective in enhancing bone regeneration, which will have therapeutic significance in orthopedics and dentistry.
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- Shilpa Joy
- Department of Biotechnology Engineering, Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Periodontics, Pushpagiri College of Dental Sciences, Tiruvalla, India
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Wang M, Yang F, Luo H, Jiang Y, Zhuang K, Tan L. Photocuring and Gelatin-Based Antibacterial Hydrogel for Skin Care. Biomacromolecules 2023; 24:4218-4228. [PMID: 37579244 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.3c00536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/16/2023]
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The development of moisturizing, antibacterial, and biocompatible multifunctional hydrogels is essential to protect skin and promote skin defects recovery. Gelatin has admired potential to be applied for skin care as a hydrogel in virtue of its hydrophilic biocompatible and biodegradable properties. In this study, triclosan-grafted gelatin and photo-cross-linkable methacrylated gelatin were synthesized and then combined to construct the semi-interpenetrating network and antibacterial hydrogels with the aid of a visible blue light. The antimicrobial test demonstrated that the resulting hydrogel obtained excellent inactivation capacity against E. coli, S. aureus, T. rubrum, and C. albicans with sterilizing rates of 99.998%, 99.998%, 99.19%, and 99.64%, respectively. In addition, the cytotoxicity, hemolysis, skin irritation, and rat skin wound healing experiments proved the good biocompatibility of the hydrogel. Therefore, this investigation sheds light on the development of multifunctional hydrogels in skin care.
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- Min Wang
- College of Biomass Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Leather Chemistry and Engineering of Ministry of Education, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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- College of Biomass Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Leather Chemistry and Engineering of Ministry of Education, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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- College of Biomass Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Leather Chemistry and Engineering of Ministry of Education, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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- College of Biomass Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Leather Chemistry and Engineering of Ministry of Education, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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- Department of Dermatovenereology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
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- College of Biomass Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Leather Chemistry and Engineering of Ministry of Education, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
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Venezia V, Verrillo M, Avallone PR, Silvestri B, Cangemi S, Pasquino R, Grizzuti N, Spaccini R, Luciani G. Waste to Wealth Approach: Improved Antimicrobial Properties in Bioactive Hydrogels through Humic Substance-Gelatin Chemical Conjugation. Biomacromolecules 2023. [PMID: 37167573 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.3c00143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Exploring opportunities for biowaste valorization, herein, humic substances (HS) were combined with gelatin, a hydrophilic biocompatible and bioavailable polymer, to obtain 3D hydrogels. Hybrid gels (Gel HS) were prepared at different HS contents, exploiting physical or chemical cross-linking, through 1-ethyl-(3-3-dimethylaminopropyl)carbodiimide (EDC) chemistry, between HS and gelatin. Physicochemical features were assessed through rheological measurements, X-ray diffraction, attenuated total reflectance (ATR) spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). ATR and NMR spectroscopies suggested the formation of an amide bond between HS and Gel via EDC chemistry. In addition, antioxidant and antimicrobial features toward both Gram(-) and Gram(+) strains were evaluated. HS confers great antioxidant and widespread antibiotic performance to the whole gel. Furthermore, the chemical cross-linking affects the viscoelastic behavior, crystalline structures, water uptake, and functional performance and produces a marked improvement of biocide action.
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- Virginia Venezia
- DICMaPI, Department of Chemical, Materials and Industrial Production Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Naples 80125, Italy
- DiSt, Department of Structures for Engineering and Architecture, University of Naples Federico II, Naples 80125, Italy
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- Department of Agricultural Science, University of Naples Federico II, Portici 80125, Italy
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- DICMaPI, Department of Chemical, Materials and Industrial Production Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Naples 80125, Italy
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- Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Naples 80125, Italy
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- Department of Agricultural Science, University of Naples Federico II, Portici 80125, Italy
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- DICMaPI, Department of Chemical, Materials and Industrial Production Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Naples 80125, Italy
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- DICMaPI, Department of Chemical, Materials and Industrial Production Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Naples 80125, Italy
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- Department of Agricultural Science, University of Naples Federico II, Portici 80125, Italy
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- DICMaPI, Department of Chemical, Materials and Industrial Production Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, Naples 80125, Italy
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We investigate the rheological behavior of aqueous solutions containing animal gelatin, sugars and polyols. The aim is to study how the gelation kinetics, transition temperatures and gel strengths of an aqueous gelatin solution can be affected by the progressive addition of co-solutes. Aqueous solutions with a fixed mass percentage of gelatin of 6.8 wt% were prepared at various concentrations of sugars and polyols. Through Dynamic Temperature Ramp tests, performed at various ramp rates, and Dynamic Time Sweep and Dynamic Frequency Sweep tests, carried out at different temperatures, it was possible both to evaluate the transition temperatures and to monitor the gelation kinetics of the samples. It was found that the contribution of co-solutes positively affects both the gelation process and the thermal stability of the aqueous gelatin solution by reducing the gelation time and improving the mechanical properties of the gel in terms of network elasticity.
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