Keratin-Based Biomaterials for Biomedical Applications
A special issue of Journal of Functional Biomaterials (ISSN 2079-4983). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2024 | Viewed by 223
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hair protein biomaterials; bone tissue engineering; medical device CAD modeling; FEM simulation; numerical methods
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Keratin biomaterials from human hair and sheep wool are currently being applied in clinical tissue engineering for the management and care of damaged skin. Due to their appealing properties, such as ease of access, material availability, and, most importantly, excellent biocompatibility, they have the potential for more widespread adoption in translational biomedicine. The development of medical products always begins with research.
The aim of this Special Issue is to showcase and highlight recent developments on the use and functionalization of keratin-based biomaterials as drugs, growth factors, and cell delivery scaffolds and gels, without or with biocompatible synthetic and natural polymers, and as degradable and soluble materials to positively influence the behavior of cultured cells and for the repair and regeneration of tissues in animal models. Basic and fundamental studies of human hair and sheep wool components, including intermediate filament hair keratins and matrix keratin-associated proteins (KAPs), and their biomedical properties and interactions with molecules and cells are also included and encouraged.
Dr. Roche C. de Guzman
Dr. Minkyu Kim
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- human hair
- sheep wool
- hair keratins
- keratin-associated proteins
- keratin biomaterials
- drug delivery
- tissue engineering
- regenerative medicine
