Review Article

A Current View of Functional Biomaterials for Wound Care, Molecular and Cellular Therapies

Table 1

A selection of biopolymers used in wound healing.

Biologically derived polymersReferences

Poly(hydroxyalkanoate)s [80]
Poly[(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate][8183]
Worm silk [84]
Spider silk[85]
Collagen[27, 41, 42, 86]
Elastin[31, 8790]
Resilin[9193]
Keratin/chitosan[94]
Cellulose[95]