Structure and properties of silk hydrogels.

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POLYMERIC SCAFFOLDS IN TISSUE ENGINEERING APPLICATION: A REVIEW (2011, background): “Examples of hydrogelforming polymers of natural origin are collagen [156], gelatin [157], fibrin [158], HA [159], alginate [160], and chitosan [161].”
Silk fibroin as biomaterial for bone tissue engineering. (2016, background): “The hydrogelation of SF is induced in aqueous SF solutions through high temperatures, low pH, high ionic strength, vortexing, sonication, freeze gelation or electrogelation [82–86].”
A practical guide to hydrogels for cell culture (2016, methodology): “Although other hydrogels have been used for cell culture (for example, chitosan 36 , silk 37 , PVA 38 , dextran 39 ), they require polymer synthesis before hydrogel formation; we focus here only on systems for which kits or hydrogel precursors can be directly purchased from vendors.”
Composite materials based on silk proteins (2010, background): “Hydrogelation occurred faster as the poly(ethylene oxide) content increased due to restriction of the mobility of the fibroin, encouraging the formation of β-sheets between the proteins [63].”
Sonication-induced gelation of silk fibroin for cell encapsulation. (2008, methodology): “To obtain silk solutions with higher concentrations, the 8% solution was dialyzed in Slide-a-Lyzer dialysis cassettes (MWCO 3,500, Pierce) against 10% (w/v) PEG (10,000g/mol) solution for at least 24h at room temperature [6,21].”