New Biomaterials, Delivery Systems and Nanomedicines for Bone Regeneration
A special issue of Biomedicines (ISSN 2227-9059).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 234
Special Issue Editor
Interests: bone regeneration; tissue engineering; molecular orthopedics; cell therapy; gene therapy; growth factors; delivery systems; biomaterials; nanomedicine
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Dear Colleagues,
The stimulation of bone growth is frequently required in the clinical settings of various medical disciplines, such as orthopedic and trauma surgery, plastic and reconstructive surgery, as well as oral and maxillofacial surgery. Bone has an intrinsic ability to regenerate, but often fails to heal if there is a lack of mechanical stability or vascularization, or if the bone defect is too large.
Current clinical treatment options are limited and associated with high failure rates and morbidity. Hence, there is an urgent need for novel implantable or injectable therapeutic products with strong osteoinductive properties leading to fast and reliable bone growth after local or systemic administration.
Therefore, for this Special Issue we invite you to submit your innovative basic science and preclinical work in the area of bone regeneration. We are interested in in vitro and in vivo studies that explore and characterize the effects and mechanisms of new biomaterials, delivery systems and nanomedicines on the cellular and molecular level. Topics include but are not limited to functional biomaterials, slow-release systems, delivery systems for osteogenic molecules, nanoparticles, RNA and DNA delivery, viral and non-viral gene therapy, and cell therapy.
Dr. Volker M. Betz
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- bone regeneration
- osteoinduction
- biomaterials
- osteogenic molecules
- delivery systems
- cell therapy
- gene therapy
- nanomedicine
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