Luca Salvatore, Francesca Russo, Maria Lucia Natali, Zahra Rajabimashhadi, Sonia Bagheri, Claudio Mele, Francesca Lionetto, Alessandro Sannino, Nunzia Gallo
Type I collagen is commonly recognized as the gold standard biomaterial for the manufacturing of medical devices for health-care related applications. In recent years, with the final aim of developing scaffolds with optimal bioactivity, even more studies focused on the influence of processing parameters on collagen properties, since processing can strongly affect the architecture of collagen at various length scales and, consequently, scaffolds macroscopic performances. The ability to finely tune scaffold properties in order to closely mimic the tissues' hierarchical features, preserving collagen's natural conformation, is actually of great interest...
December 1, 2023: International Journal of Biological Macromolecules