Alginate and its application to tissue engineering

Abstract Alginate is a polysaccharide of natural origin, which shows outstanding properties biocompatibility, gel forming ability, non-toxicity, biodegradability and easy to process. Due these excellent alginate, sodium hydrogel form oxidized alginate other based materials are used in various biomedical fields, especially drug delivery, wound healing tissue engineering. can be easily processed as the 3D scaffolding includes hydrogels, microcapsules, microspheres, foams, sponges, fibers bio-polymeric have particularly healing, bone injuries, scars, wound, cartilage repair treatment, new regeneration, scaffolds for cell growth. modified blended by adopting some physical chemical processes derivative obtained different structures, functions, having improved mechanical strength, affinity property gelation. This attained due combination with biomaterials, crosslinking, immobilization definite ligands (sugar peptide molecules). Hence its forms, composite found more attractive towards article provides comprehensive outline properties, structural aspects, application