Journal
PHARMACEUTICS
Volume 13, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics13030316
Keywords
nano collagen; tissue engineering; tissue regeneration; three-dimensional; biomaterial; extracellular matrix
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- Geran Pembiayaan Sepadan under the Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia [FF-2020-227/1]
- JGS Revolution Cell Sdn Bhd [FF-2020-227]
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Collagen, as a widely studied natural component, plays a major role in tissue repair and regeneration in tissue engineering. Nano collagen, a relatively new material involved in nanotechnology, has potential advantages over traditional collagen design due to its nano-size, making it suitable for various medical applications and cosmetic purposes.
Tissue engineering technology is a promising alternative approach for improvement in health management. Biomaterials play a major role, acting as a provisional bioscaffold for tissue repair and regeneration. Collagen a widely studied natural component largely present in the extracellular matrix (ECM) of the human body. It provides mechanical stability with suitable elasticity and strength to various tissues, including skin, bone, tendon, cornea and others. Even though exogenous collagen is commonly used in bioscaffolds, largely in the medical and pharmaceutical fields, nano collagen is a relatively new material involved in nanotechnology with a plethora of unexplored potential. Nano collagen is a form of collagen reduced to a nanoparticulate size, which has its advantages over the common three-dimensional (3D) collagen design, primarily due to its nano-size contributing to a higher surface area-to-volume ratio, aiding in withstanding large loads with minimal tension. It can be produced through different approaches including the electrospinning technique to produce nano collagen fibres resembling natural ECM. Nano collagen can be applied in various medical fields involving bioscaffold insertion or fillers for wound healing improvement; skin, bone, vascular grafting, nerve tissue and articular cartilage regeneration as well as aiding in drug delivery and incorporation for cosmetic purposes.
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