Antioxidants and Biomaterials in Health and Nutrition
A special issue of Antioxidants (ISSN 2076-3921).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2021) | Viewed by 65629
Special Issue Editors
Interests: molecular pathology; oxidative stress; signal transduction; inflammaging;, microRNAs; bioinfomatics
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Interests: circular economy; sustainability; energy; biomaterials; nanofibers
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The benefits of dietary components for human health, in particular antioxidant properties and their positive effect in the prevention of diseases (e.g., degenerative diseases) have been widely recognized. Significant efforts have been made in developing new devices and approaches to overcoming unsolved medical problems and to advance human health care. Biomaterials have been one of the key elements of this advancement, and dietary components have been considered as new agents in biomaterials. These latter may have important roles in modulating the functions of biomaterials and processing for various medical and biomedical applications, including tissue regeneration and drug delivery. Wound dressings have been formulated in several structural forms such as nanofibers, polymers, films, and meshes. The key factors for the successful repair of wounds sustained by biomaterials are based on surface topography, the type of polymer used, fabrication techniques, and the biocompatibility and biodegradability of the scaffolds.
In this Special Issue we invite researchers to submit their latest research findings or review articles related to nutrients or dietary components that may be used to produce functionalized biomaterials for wound dressing and health care. In vivo and/or in vitro studies on any of the following topics will be considered: analysis of nutrients with physiologically active compounds possessing antioxidant properties that may increase the production of key constituents of the extracellular matrix (ECM), leading to effectual wound healing; compounds that are appealing in the field of regenerative medicine to support cell migration, proliferation, and growth; nutrients or bioactive natural compounds isolated from plant sources that may display bioactive properties such as antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antitumor, anticoagulant, and antimicrobial activity (favorable factors for wound healing); natural polymers and composites which are both renewable and biodegradable; new biomaterial formulations with biomedical applications (for tissue regeneration and drug delivery); composite fibrous scaffolds containing both synthetic polymers (with appropriate mechanical properties) and natural polymers (with bioactive surfaces).
Prof. Maria Cristina Albertini
Prof. Seeram Ramakrishna, FREng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Antioxidants
- biomaterials
- nutrition
- drug delivery
- anti-microbial
- anti-inflammatory
- phytochemicals
- tissue regeneration
- nanotechnology
- nanofibers
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