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POLYMERS
Volume 15, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/polym15030504
Keywords
silk fibroin; hyaluronic acid; hydrogel; curcumin; cellular proliferation
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The development of new biomaterials from natural fibres, especially silk fibroin, has gained significant attention in the field of biomedicine. Hydrogels, which are flexible polymer networks capable of absorbing large amounts of water and accommodating drugs or cells, have emerged as potential candidates for various applications such as scaffolding and cell therapy. In this study, curcumin-hyaluronic acid-silk fibroin hydrogels were prepared using a simple sonication process. The hydrogels were characterized using various techniques and their biological activity was evaluated using fibroblast cell viability assays.
The development of new biomaterials from natural fibres in the field of biomedicine have attracted great interest in recent years. One of the most studied fibres has been silk fibroin produced by the Bombyx mori worm, due to its excellent mechanical properties and its biodegradability and bioavailability. Among the different biomaterials that can be prepared from silk fibroin, hydrogels have attracted considerable attention due to their potential use in different fields, such as scaffolding, cell therapy and biomedical application. Hydrogels are essentially a three-dimensional network of flexible polymer chains that absorb considerable amounts of water and can be loaded with drugs and/or cells inside to be used in a wide variety of applications. Here we present a simple sonication process for the preparation of curcumin-hyaluronic acid-silk fibroin hydrogels. Different grades of hydrogels were prepared by controlling the relative amounts of their components. The hydrogels were physically and morphologically characterised by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) and their biological activity was tested in terms of cell viability in a fibroblast cell line.
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