Hanjie Shao, Xiang Wu, Ying Xiao, Yanyu Yang, Jingyun Ma, Yang Zhou, Wen Chen, Shaoxia Qin, Jiawei Yang, Rong Wang, Hong Li
Hemorrhage is a potentially life-threatening emergency that can occur at any time or place. Whether traumatic, congenital, surgical, disease-related, or drug-induced, bleeding can lead to severe complications or death. Therefore, the development of efficient hemostatic materials is critical. However, the results and prognosis demonstrated by clinical means of hemostasis do not reach expectations. With the development of technology, novel hemostatic materials have been developed from polysaccharides (chitosan, hyaluronic acid, alginate, cellulose, cyclodextrins, starch, dextran, and carrageenan), peptides (self-assembling peptides), and proteins (silk fibroin, collagen, gelatin, keratin, and thrombin)...
January 26, 2024: International Journal of Biological Macromolecules