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abstract

Bacterial cellulose (BC) is a nanocellulose form produced by some nonpathogenic bacteria. BC presents unique physical, chemical, and biological properties that make it a very versatile material and has found application in several fields, namely in food industry, cosmetics, and biomedicine. This review overviews the latest state-of-the-art usage of BC on three 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 to be an effective and versatile carrier for delivery systems, a safe and multicustomizable 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.

keywords

MESENCHYMAL STEM-CELLS; IN-VITRO; MECHANICAL-PROPERTIES; COMPOSITE SCAFFOLDS; NANOFIBROUS SCAFFOLD; CONTROLLED-RELEASE; BIOGLASS SCAFFOLD; DRUG-RELEASE; MUSCLE-CELLS; NANOCELLULOSE

subject category

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology

authors

Carvalho, T; Guedes, G; Sousa, FL; Freire, CSR; Santos, HA

our authors

foto Carmen Sofia da Rocha Freire Barros

Carmen Sofia da Rocha Freire Barros

Coordinating Researcher
foto Filipa Lourosa Sousa

Filipa Lourosa Sousa

Junior Researcher
foto Gabriela Guedes

Gabriela Guedes

Research Fellowship
foto Tiago Carvalho

Tiago Carvalho

PhD Student

Groups

G2 - Photonic, Electronic and Magnetic Materials
G4 - Renewable Materials and Circular Economy

acknowledgements

T.C. and G.G. contributed equally to this work. T.C. acknowledges Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (FCT), for the Ph.D. grant SFRH/BD/130458/2017. F.L.S. acknowledges FCT for the researcher contract IF/00222/2015. H.A.S. acknowledges financial support from the HiLIFE Research Funds and the Sigrid Juselius Foundation.

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Publication Details

type
Journal Article
year
2019
journal
BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL
volume
14
article number
1900059
publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
issn
1860-6768
isbn
1860-7314
issue
12
digital object identifier
10.1002/biot.201900059
web of science article identifier
WOS:000486789700001

Journal Metrics (JCR 2019)

Journal Impact Factor
3.912
Journal Impact Factor (5 yrs)
3.947
category normalized journal percentile
77.275

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