Biodegradation of Silk Biomaterials

By Yangrui Cao, Bochu Wang. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2009

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Silk fibroin from the silkworm, Bombyx mori, has excellent properties such as biocompatibility, biodegradation, non-toxicity, adsorption properties, etc. As a kind of ideal biomaterial, silk fibroin has been widely used since it was first utilized for sutures a long time ago. The degradation behavior of silk biomaterials is obviously important for medical applications. This article will focus on silk-based biomaterials and review the degradation behaviors of silk materials.

Subfields: Biomaterials, Microbiology

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• Silk fibroin as biomaterial for bone tissue engineering. (2016, background): “Due to its chemical composition and structure, silkworm SF has been shown to be highly biocompatible [63].”
• Fiber-Based Tissue Engineering: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities (2012, background): “In addition, following chemical processing, it is non-cytotoxic and non-inflammatory (Acharya et al., 2008; Cao and Wang, 2009).”