39 citations
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February 2024 in “Small” This review discusses the evolution and development of smart and multifunctional microneedles, highlighting their potential future importance in medical applications, but it reports no new experimental results.
21 citations
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November 2023 in “Heliyon” This review explored the use of six tropical plants, such as Acacia concinna and Garcinia mangostana, as natural active ingredients in shampoos, highlighting their beneficial physicochemical properties and biological activities for hair care and scalp maintenance.
21 citations
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November 2022 in “Clinical Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology” This review highlights the potential of several medicinal plants as treatments for seborrhea dermatitis by inhibiting Malassezia growth and reducing symptoms like itching and redness, amid challenges of drug adherence and side effects in existing therapies.
21 citations
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June 2022 in “Molecules” This review discusses the phytochemistry and pharmacological activities of Perilla frutescens, detailing its bioactive compounds and their potential health benefits, but reports no new clinical results.
20 citations
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June 2022 in “Molecules” This review discusses three classes of thiazole-bearing compounds in drug development and presents preclinical findings but reports no new experimental results, highlighting the need for further drug discovery.
19 citations
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January 2023 in “ACS Omega” This study developed sodium alginate and epigallocatechin gallate cryogels cross-linked with ferric ions, showing that they have strong antibacterial properties and rapid hemostatic abilities, making them promising candidates for wound dressing applications.
12 citations
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January 2022 in “The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine” This review summarizes current knowledge of SARS-CoV-2, including its biology, epidemiology, risk factors, and the need for updated vaccines and drugs, but presents no new clinical findings.
12 citations
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July 2015 in “Experimental Dermatology” This study found that overexpression of Gsdma3 in mice led to epidermal hyperplasia, skin inflammation, and hair growth defects, suggesting gain-of-function mutations in Gsdma3 cause these conditions.
6 citations
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April 2025 in “Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems” This review highlights the potential of valorizing vegetable waste by extracting valuable biomolecules for use in food, nutraceuticals, and energy, noting that while promising methods exist, several niche areas lack sufficient research on a global scale.
5 citations
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July 2025 in “Nutrients” This study reviews how advancements in nanotechnology have improved food safety, nutrition delivery, and health interventions, but it also highlights the need for more research into safety evaluations and regulatory concerns.
4 citations
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September 2025 in “Pharmaceutics” This review highlights the potential of natural hydrogels as advanced wound dressings, emphasizing their capabilities in mimicking the extracellular matrix, supporting healing, and delivering therapeutic agents for chronic and infected wound care.
4 citations
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May 2025 in “Life” This review highlights advancements in 3D bioprinting for skin tissue engineering, focusing on exosome-loaded bioinks that show potential for enhancing skin regeneration and repair.
3 citations
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September 2025 in “Cosmetics” This review examines the potential and challenges of extracellular vesicles in cosmetics, noting their transformative impact despite regulatory and production hurdles; it reports no new experimental results.
3 citations
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May 2024 in “Biomimetics” This narrative review examines the structure-function relationship in bioactive biopolymers used to promote healing in chronic wounds, emphasizing diabetic ulcers, and underscores the importance of characterizing these biopolymers to enhance their bioactivity for better tissue regeneration outcomes.
2 citations
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May 2023 in “Nanomaterials” This review explores the formulation, characterization, and applications of microemulsions, highlighting their potential for enhanced cutaneous drug delivery by improving bioavailability and enabling sustained release of both hydrophilic and hydrophobic drugs.
1 citations
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October 2025 in “International Journal of Molecular Sciences” This narrative review highlights the potential of naturally occurring compounds to target specific molecular pathways and overcome resistance in advanced and recurrent papillary thyroid cancer, offering new therapeutic possibilities beyond traditional treatments like surgery and lifelong hormone replacement.
1 citations
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August 2025 in “Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology” This study found that a 3D wound model, the 3DWoundSE, showed improved responsiveness to injury and cytotoxic stimuli compared to an intact 3D skin equivalent, offering a reproducible and ethical alternative to animal models for early wound response assessment in dermatological research and drug development.
1 citations
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August 2024 in “Polymers” This review discusses recent advances in protein immobilization on bacterial cellulose for various biomedical uses and reports no new clinical results.
August 2026 in “Pharmaceuticals” This review reports that biopolymer-based hydrogels show promise as wound dressings due to their biocompatibility, moisture retention, and ability to mimic the extracellular matrix, though challenges in mass production, safety, and clinical validation remain.
July 2026 in “Pharmaceuticals” This review discusses the potential of marine-derived polysaccharide nanofibers as advanced wound dressings, highlighting their regenerative advantages in addressing inflammation, oxidative stress, and other healing barriers. However, it notes that clinical translation is limited by challenges in standardization, evidence, safety, and production scalability.
In this study, researchers developed a multifunctional hydrogel for wound healing, incorporating antibacterial and antioxidant properties that demonstrated significant inflammation reduction and tissue regeneration in animal models, with high antibacterial efficacy against E. coli and S. aureus.
November 2025 in “Cosmetics” This study found that of the many ingredients advertised in shampoos as effective against hair loss, only caffeine, adenosine, placental proteins, and melatonin have limited clinical evidence supporting their efficacy, with most claimed active ingredients lacking any trial-based validation.
September 2025 in “Immunological Reviews” This review describes how the skin can form its own immune response through dermal tertiary lymphoid organs, which function independently of traditional lymph nodes, potentially offering new insights into skin health care and treatments.
August 2025 in “Marine Drugs” This study evaluated a new composite material made from PLA, ALG, ZnS, and HT for blood-contacting applications, finding it improved surface characteristics and displayed anticoagulant properties and high biocompatibility with no genotoxic effects on blood and skin cells.
August 2023 in “Bioengineering” This systematic review reports that bioprinting technology holds significant potential for improving patient quality of life by enabling personalized medical treatments, reducing organ transplant rejection risks, and accelerating skin tissue regeneration, although many advancements are still at the research stage.
July 2023 in “Journal of allergy and clinical Immunology. Global” This case report describes a 10-month-old boy with VACTERL association and athymia who developed Omenn syndrome, highlighting the complex overlap of these conditions and the challenging clinical course due to profound T-cell immunodeficiency.
May 2023 in “Asian Journal of Transfusion Science” In this study, conducted at a tertiary care hospital in Chennai, adverse events during blood donation were observed in 0.42% of donors, predominantly affecting first-time male donors, and were mostly vasovagal reactions such as giddiness and sweating.
June 2022 in “Mayo Clinic Proceedings” This case report describes a 69-year-old man diagnosed with stage 3 acute kidney injury secondary to new IgG kappa light chain multiple myeloma, where treatment with bortezomib-based therapy showed potential for kidney function salvage.
5 citations
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October 2022 in “Heliyon” This review discusses infertility in polycystic ovary syndrome and therapeutic options, without reporting new results; it underscores the importance of personalized treatment plans based on patient needs and disease characteristics.
2 citations
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October 2024 in “Phytochemistry Reviews” Abrus precatorius has medicinal benefits but can be toxic.