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ReviewBiomimetics (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Mussel-Inspired Hydrogel Applied to Wound Healing: A Review and Future Prospects.

Yanai Chen, Yijia Cao, Pengyu Cui, Shenzhou Lu

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Review in Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Yanai ChenNational Engineering Laboratory for Modern Silk, College of Textile and Clothing Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China.
Yijia CaoNational Engineering Laboratory for Modern Silk, College of Textile and Clothing Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China.
Pengyu CuiNational Engineering Laboratory for Modern Silk, College of Textile and Clothing Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China.
Shenzhou LuNational Engineering Laboratory for Modern Silk, College of Textile and Clothing Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4188-2057

Funding

College Nature Science Research Project of Jiangsu Province, China 20KJA540002
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The application background of mussel-inspired materials is based on the unique underwater adhesive ability of marine mussels, which has inspired researchers to develop bionic materials with strong adhesion, self-healing ability, biocompatibility, and environmental friendliness. Specifically, 3, 4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (DOPA) in mussel byssus is able to form non-covalent forces on a variety of surfaces, which are critical for the mussel's underwater adhesion and enable the mussel-inspired material to dissipate energy and repair itself under external forces. Mussel-inspired hydrogels are ideal medical adhesive materials due to their unique physical and chemical properties, such as excellent tissue adhesion, hemostasis and bacteriostasis, biosafety, and plasticity. This paper reviewed chitosan, cellulose, hyaluronic acid, gelatin, alginate, and other biomedical materials and discussed the advanced functions of mussel-inspired hydrogels as wound dressings, including antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant properties, adhesion and hemostasis, material transport, self-healing, stimulating response, and so on. At the same time, the technical challenges and limitations of the biomimetic mussel hydrogel in biomedical applications were further discussed, and its potential solutions and future research developments in the field of biomedicine were highlighted.

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hydrogelmussel-inspiredwound healing

Identifiers

PMID40277605
PMCPMC12025024

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