Engineering Antioxidant Surfaces for Titanium-Based Metallic Biomaterials

Antibacterial Strategies for Titanium Biomaterials

Unosson, E. 2015. Antibacterial Strategies for Titanium Biomaterials. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 1250. 72 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9241-0. Titanium and titanium based alloys are widely used in dentistry and orthopedics to replace hard tissue and to mend broken bones. It has become a mate...

Collagen-Based Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering Applications

Collagen is the most widely distributed class of proteins in the human body. The use of collagen-based biomaterials in the field of tissue engineering applications has been intensively growing over the past decades. Multiple cross-linking methods were investigated and different combinations with other biopolymers were explored in order to improve tissue function. Collagen possesses a major adva...

Titanium and Titanium Alloys as Biomaterials

Hypersensitivity Associated with Metallic Biomaterials

tion of metals have been reported to cause reacBiocompatibility can be defined as the ability tions, which most typically manifest as hives, of a biomaterial to demonstrate host and material eczema, redness, and itching (6,9–11). Although response appropriate to its intended application little is known about the shortand long-term (1). The determination of biocompatibility has pharmacodynamics ...

Biomaterials for Cardiac Tissue Engineering

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are a leading death cause in developed countries (1 of every 3 deaths in the United States in 2008) [1]. Changes in diet and habits are causing CVD to become major mortality pathologies in developing countries too [2] (they are already responsible for a 30% of the world deaths). This group of diseases constitutes a great burden for the national health systems, cons...