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Cellularized Skin Substitute Bioengineering for Regenerative Medicine: Cell Sources, Culture Strategies, and Transition Toward Defined, Xeno‐Free Culture Systems

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Advances in cell sources, bioengineering, and manufacturing are reshaping the design of skin substitutes. This review highlights emerging strategies driving skin tissue engineering and discusses their potential to enable safer, reproducible, and clinically accessible skin substitutes for regenerative medicine.
Gilles Lemaître   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Extrusion Bioprinting for Wound Healing: Innovations in Functionalized Bioinks and Bioprinting Technology

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Extrusion‐based bioprinting (EBB) has emerged as a versatile biofabrication platform capable of precisely depositing bioinks composed of biomaterials, cells, and bioactive agents to generate patient‐specific, biomimetic skin constructs. This paper presents a state‐of‐the‐art and forward‐looking overview of EBB for wound healing, encompassing printing ...
Hien‐Phuong Le   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Indications and surgical techniques for corneal transplantation at a tertiary referral center

open access: yesJournal of Ophthalmic & Vision Research, 2019
Purpose: The study aimed to review the indications and techniques for corneal transplantation at a tertiary referral center over a 5-year period. Methods: Records of patients who underwent corneal transplantation at Khalili Medical Center, Shiraz, Iran ...
Hossein Jamali, Ahmad Reza Gholampour
doaj   +1 more source

Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Corneal Scarring and Advances in Therapy

open access: yesInternational Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023
On the basis of WHO global blindness data, it may be stated that 23 million people globally suffer from unilateral corneal blindness, while 4 [...]
Matthias Fuest   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

3D‐Printed Corneal Substitutes: Materials, Fabrication, and Preclinical Progress

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Successful clinical translation of 3D‐printed corneal substitutes relies on the interplay between the bioink properties, cellular component, and the fabrication process. These factors influence the critical properties of the construct, including optical transparency, mechanical stability, suture retention, that ultimately govern long‐term stromal ...
Shadi Moshayedi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reverse engineering as a teaching tool: the corneal topographer [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Reverse engineering is the process of discovering the technological principles of a device, object or system through analysis of its structure, function, and operation.
Mas, David   +6 more
core   +2 more sources

Topical rosiglitazone is an effective anti-scarring agent in the cornea [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Corneal scarring remains a major cause of blindness world-wide, with limited treatment options, all of which have side-effects. Here, we tested the hypothesis that topical application of Rosiglitazone, a Thiazolidinedione and ligand of peroxisome ...
Phipps, Richard P.   +17 more
core   +2 more sources

A Proof‐of‐Concept Assessment of a Novel Wearable Eyelid Muscle Device: A Pre‐Clinical Animal Cadaver Study for Eyelid Closure Restoration

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This article introduces a soft wearable eyelid sling device incorporating a hydraulic soft artificial muscle (SAM) for achieving complete closure of an eyelid. The SAM is driven by a cam mechanism that provides a displacement profile closely matched with those of a healthy eyelid.
Patrick Pruscino   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

ROS‐Responsive Eye Drop for Controlled Release of 20‐Deoxyingenol Improves Diabetic Corneal Healing by Activating Macrophage Autophagy and Metabolic Reprogramming

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Schematic illustration of ROS‐responsive TSPBA‐PVA microspheres loaded with 20‐deoxyingenol (TP/20‐DOI) for diabetic corneal wound healing: (a) fabrication and ROS‐triggered release; (b) autophagy activation and metabolic reprogramming in macrophages; (c) suppression of macrophage‐derived CXCL3/CXCL5, attenuation of neutrophil infiltration, and ...
Jiaxin Wu   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recent developments in retinal lasers and delivery systems

open access: yesIndian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2014
Photocoagulation is the standard of care for several ocular disorders and in particular retinal conditions. Technology has offered us newer lasing mediums, wavelengths and delivery systems.
Naresh Kumar Yadav   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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