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This review discusses how polymers can be customized to develop biomaterials that mimic the extracellular matrix, exploring their potential in biomedical and biotechnological applications by triggering cell functions similar to natural physiological systems.

This review discusses bio-based polymers, highlighting their potential in wound healing applications, but reports no new clinical results.

This review examines advancements in natural polymer-based drug delivery systems like hydrogels and composites for treating major diseases, highlighting challenges in solubility and functionalization but reports no new clinical results.

This study found that resveratrol-loaded polymeric nanoparticles show promise as a pulmonary drug delivery system for lung cancer, reducing resveratrol's IC50 significantly in Calu 3 cells.

This study found that the natural polymer-based hydrogel Gel/SA@PL released growth factors in a controlled way, which enhanced tissue regeneration and minimized scarring in the healing of diabetic wounds.

This study developed dissolving microneedles using specific polymers for transdermal delivery of rizatriptan benzoate, demonstrating improved drug skin penetration and significant alleviation of migraine symptoms in vivo compared to passive diffusion, suggesting potential advantages over conventional treatment methods for acute migraine.

This study reviews recent advancements in microneedles made from PLGA, highlighting their use in delivering vaccines, drugs, and proteins through the skin with minimal invasiveness, and discusses the challenges and future potential of these delivery systems.

This study explored the use of dexamethasone-loaded polymer hybrid nanoparticles in a xanthan gum hydrogel for treating alopecia areata, finding that freeze drying with sucrose influenced particle size, release, and permeation, but had no impact on cytotoxicity or anti-inflammatory efficacy in human keratinocytes.

This study found that encapsulating curcumin within specific polymers increased its oral bioavailability, photostability, and release in both mice and in vitro, compared to free curcumin.

This review focuses on recent advances in smart responsive polymer microneedles, which offer precise, on-demand drug delivery triggered by external or physiological stimuli, highlighting significant research implications for transdermal drug administration according to this source.

This study purified a transglutaminase enzyme from human epidermis that requires calcium or strontium for activity and forms cross-linked polymers, but its detailed activation mechanism remains unclear.

This review examines the production and market of biodegradable surgical and beauty face masks made from biobased polymers, highlighting their potential environmental benefits but reports no new findings.

This study suggests that the cell membrane complex in hair cuticles contains hydrophilic regions with disulfide bonds allowing polymer uptake and hydrophobic lamella-like lipid layers.

In this study, the release rate of Finasteride from Eudragit matrix tablets was found to be significantly influenced by the drug/Eudragit ratio and polymer viscosity, with formulation F9 being the most effective.

In this study, a microneedle patch system using pullulan as a polymer was found to efficiently deliver finasteride, promising convenience and effectiveness in treating hair loss.

This review discusses various nanocarriers for gene and genome editing therapies, highlighting that ionizable lipid nanoparticles show advanced delivery performance, while emerging polymer-based and exosome-inspired carriers are rapidly advancing for targeted applications.

In this review, the authors discuss recent advancements in underwater adhesion technologies, specifically highlighting mussel-inspired catechol-based adhesives, which offer strong underwater bonding through various interfacial interactions and the influence of dopamine-modified polymeric tissue adhesives.

This study explores the design of responsive drug carriers based on the tumor microenvironment to improve targeting and reduce side effects in cancer treatment, using a model of delivering curcumin with a responsive polymer carrier and evaluating potential errors due to cancer cell heterogeneity.

This study analyzed hair styling mousses on the Slovenian market, finding that their formulations primarily rely on polymers, with no banned ingredients according to European cosmetics regulations.

This study identified the best cream-mask base composition for treating androgenetic alopecia using Saw palmetto and Sophora Japonica, which includes specific emulsifiers and polymers for optimal consumer and pharmaco-technological properties.

This research investigated the formulation of minoxidil emulgel using various gelling agents for treating male pattern baldness. It found that this formulation was feasible, with no interactions between the drug and polymers, suggesting potential advantages over other dosage forms.

In this study, tubular 3D bioprinted structures made from sodium alginate and gelatin, containing NIH/3T3 fibroblast cells, demonstrated the ability for cell growth and network formation over 6 weeks, although structural tensile strength decreased with cell growth and polymer degradation.

This study found that electrospun poly(ε-caprolactone)/poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) blend fibers demonstrated nanometric dimensions and promising properties for drug delivery, with curcumin release linked to fiber morphology and processing parameters.

In this review, researchers reported that incorporating nanoparticles into natural-based biomaterials enhanced scaffolding properties, cellular interactions, and outcomes in wound healing, with promising implications for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, although many signaling pathways involved are still not fully understood.

This review reports on recent surfactant-based niosome formulations, including those with polysaccharides, for versatile drug delivery applications such as ocular, oral, and transdermal settings, while discussing their limitations and potential prospects.

This study systematically examines how smart biomaterials used with DLP technology can enhance bioprinting in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, while also identifying current challenges and future research needs.

This review discusses the biological properties and potential applications of PCL and barium titanate composites in biomedical fields and reports no new experimental findings; the authors highlight the need for further research.

This review discusses recent research and applications of RADA16 and RADA16-based peptide scaffolds in biomedicine, including their roles in tissue repair and drug delivery, but reports no new clinical results.

In this study, researchers developed a novel composite fiber by incorporating minoxidil sulfate-loaded ZIF-8 nanoparticles into a polyvinyl alcohol matrix, achieving sustained drug release for up to 220 hours, strong mechanical properties, and the capability for cosmetic applications like wigs.

This study found that poly(butylene citramalate-co-butylene succinate) copolymers exhibit high toughness, recyclability, degradability, and biocompatibility, achieving complete wound healing with skin and hair follicle regeneration in 7 days.