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authors |
Tiago Carvalho, Gabriela Guedes, Filipa L. Sousa, Carmen S. R. Freire, Hélder A. Santos |
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nationality |
International |
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Biotechnology Journal |
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abstract |
Bacterial cellulose (BC) is a nanocellulose formproduced by some non-pathogenic bacteria.BC presents unique physical, chemical and biological properties thatmake it a very versatile material and have found application in several fields, namely in food industry, cosmetics, and biomedicine. This review overviews thelateststate-of-the-artusageof BConthree important areas of the biomedical field, namely delivery systems, wound dressing and healing materials, and tissue engineering for regenerative medicine. BC will be reviewed as a promising biopolymer for the design and development of innovative materials for the mentioned applications. Overall, BC is shown tobe an effective and versatilecarrier for delivery systems, a safeandmulti-customizable patch or graft for wound dressing and healing applications, and a material that can be further tuned to better adjust for each tissue engineering application, by using different methods. |
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year published |
2019 |
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digital object identifier (doi) |
10.1002/biot.201900059 |
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impact metrics
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journal impact factor |
3.507 |
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5 year journal impact factor |
3.499 |
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category normalized journal impact factor percentile |
71.940 |
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