Saliva is an important compound produced by the salivary glands and performs numerous functions. Hyposalivation (dry mouth syndrome) is a deleterious condition often resulting from radiotherapy for patients wi...
Authors: Chankee Yoo, Jeremy B Vines, Grant Alexander, Kyle Murdock, Patrick Hwang and Ho-Wook Jun
Without exploitation of possibly immunogenic and carcinogenic bone morphogenetic protein, we developed simple but clinically feasible artificial bone graft using osteoconductive hyaluronate (HA) hydrogels and ...
Authors: Junseok Yeom, Byung Woo Hwang, Dong Jun Yang, Hong-In Shin and Sei Kwang Hahn
The initial procedure of the development of engineered tissues is cell seeding into three-dimensional polymer scaffolds. However, it is hard to make the cells invade into scaffold due to the characteristic of ...
Authors: Min-Ah Koo, Jae Kyeong Kang, Mi Hee Lee, Hyok Jin Seo, Byeong-Ju Kwon, Kyung Eun You, Min Sung Kim, Dohyun Kim and Jong-Chul Park
Hyaluronic acid (HA) is of importance due to its diverse applications in pharmaceuticals and medical devices such as dermal filler, adhesion barriers, carrier for cells and bioactive molecules as well as scaff...
Authors: Sungchul Choi, Woncheol Choi, Sekweon Kim, Su-Yeon Lee, Insup Noh and Chan-Wha Kim
Nanofibrous scaffolds are artificial extracellular matrices which provide natural environment for tissue formation. In comparison to other forms of scaffolds, the nanofibrous scaffolds promote cell adhesion, p...
Authors: Kailash Chandra Gupta, Adnan Haider, Yu-ri Choi and Inn-kyu Kang
It is my pleasure to usher in a new era for Biomaterials Research in 2014: gold open access. The journal has a long history of publishing research across the broad spectrum of biomedical materials. Supported by t...
