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Design of Injectable Bioartificial Hydrogels by Green Chemistry for Mini-Invasive Applications in the Biomedical or Aesthetic Medicine Fields
Bioartificial hydrogels are hydrophilic systems extensively studied for regenerative medicine due to the synergic combination of features of synthetic and natural polymers. Injectability is another crucial property for hydrogel mini-invasive administration. This work aimed at engineering injectable...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9858130/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36661825 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/gels9010059 |
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author | Laurano, Rossella Boffito, Monica Cassino, Claudio Liberti, Francesco Ciardelli, Gianluca Chiono, Valeria |
author_facet | Laurano, Rossella Boffito, Monica Cassino, Claudio Liberti, Francesco Ciardelli, Gianluca Chiono, Valeria |
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description | Bioartificial hydrogels are hydrophilic systems extensively studied for regenerative medicine due to the synergic combination of features of synthetic and natural polymers. Injectability is another crucial property for hydrogel mini-invasive administration. This work aimed at engineering injectable bioartificial in situ cross-linkable hydrogels by implementing green and eco-friendly approaches. Specifically, the versatile poly(ether urethane) (PEU) chemistry was exploited for the development of an amphiphilic PEU, while hyaluronic acid was selected as natural component. Both polymers were functionalized to expose thiol and catechol groups through green water-based carbodiimide-mediated grafting reactions. Functionalization was optimized to maximize grafting yield while preserving group functionality. Then, polymer miscibility was studied at the macro-, micro-, and nano-scale, suggesting the formation of hydrogen bonds among polymeric chains. All hydrogels could be injected through G21 and G18 needles in a wide temperature range (4–25 °C) and underwent sol-to-gel transition at 37 °C. The addition of an oxidizing agent to polymer solutions did not improve the gelation kinetics, while it negatively affected hydrogel stability in an aqueous environment, suggesting the occurrence of oxidation-triggered polymer degradation. In the future, the bioartificial hydrogels developed herein could find application in the biomedical and aesthetic medicine fields as injectable formulations for therapeutic agent delivery. |
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spelling | pubmed-98581302023-01-21 Design of Injectable Bioartificial Hydrogels by Green Chemistry for Mini-Invasive Applications in the Biomedical or Aesthetic Medicine Fields Laurano, Rossella Boffito, Monica Cassino, Claudio Liberti, Francesco Ciardelli, Gianluca Chiono, Valeria Gels Article Bioartificial hydrogels are hydrophilic systems extensively studied for regenerative medicine due to the synergic combination of features of synthetic and natural polymers. Injectability is another crucial property for hydrogel mini-invasive administration. This work aimed at engineering injectable bioartificial in situ cross-linkable hydrogels by implementing green and eco-friendly approaches. Specifically, the versatile poly(ether urethane) (PEU) chemistry was exploited for the development of an amphiphilic PEU, while hyaluronic acid was selected as natural component. Both polymers were functionalized to expose thiol and catechol groups through green water-based carbodiimide-mediated grafting reactions. Functionalization was optimized to maximize grafting yield while preserving group functionality. Then, polymer miscibility was studied at the macro-, micro-, and nano-scale, suggesting the formation of hydrogen bonds among polymeric chains. All hydrogels could be injected through G21 and G18 needles in a wide temperature range (4–25 °C) and underwent sol-to-gel transition at 37 °C. The addition of an oxidizing agent to polymer solutions did not improve the gelation kinetics, while it negatively affected hydrogel stability in an aqueous environment, suggesting the occurrence of oxidation-triggered polymer degradation. In the future, the bioartificial hydrogels developed herein could find application in the biomedical and aesthetic medicine fields as injectable formulations for therapeutic agent delivery. MDPI 2023-01-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9858130/ /pubmed/36661825 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/gels9010059 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Laurano, Rossella Boffito, Monica Cassino, Claudio Liberti, Francesco Ciardelli, Gianluca Chiono, Valeria Design of Injectable Bioartificial Hydrogels by Green Chemistry for Mini-Invasive Applications in the Biomedical or Aesthetic Medicine Fields |
title | Design of Injectable Bioartificial Hydrogels by Green Chemistry for Mini-Invasive Applications in the Biomedical or Aesthetic Medicine Fields |
title_full | Design of Injectable Bioartificial Hydrogels by Green Chemistry for Mini-Invasive Applications in the Biomedical or Aesthetic Medicine Fields |
title_fullStr | Design of Injectable Bioartificial Hydrogels by Green Chemistry for Mini-Invasive Applications in the Biomedical or Aesthetic Medicine Fields |
title_full_unstemmed | Design of Injectable Bioartificial Hydrogels by Green Chemistry for Mini-Invasive Applications in the Biomedical or Aesthetic Medicine Fields |
title_short | Design of Injectable Bioartificial Hydrogels by Green Chemistry for Mini-Invasive Applications in the Biomedical or Aesthetic Medicine Fields |
title_sort | design of injectable bioartificial hydrogels by green chemistry for mini-invasive applications in the biomedical or aesthetic medicine fields |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9858130/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36661825 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/gels9010059 |
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