Potential Application of Marine Collagen and Its Derivatives in Tissue Regeneration Engineering
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 225
Special Issue Editor
Interests: collagenous scaffold; dermatopontin; collagen; hard tissue physiology; biomineralization; fish physiology; comparative physiology of hard tissues; SLRPs; collagen peptides; chondroitin sulfate; ECM
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
For a long time, the main industrial sources of collagen for biomedical applications have been pigs and cows. However, the use of mammalian collagens is limited because of its high risk of transferring zoonosis. On the other hand, marine collagen is expected to have a lower risk of transferring zoonosis because marine organisms are evolutionally distant from human beings. Moreover, the use of marine collagen has fewer religious objections than does that of mammalian collagen. In this perspective, a growing number of researchers has paid attention to collagen extracted from marine organisms as an alternative to mammalian collagen (e.g., Salvatore et al., 2020, doi: 10.1016/j.msec.2020.110963).
Tissue regeneration engineering requires artificial scaffolds for cells to construct 3D tissues. Collagen is a promising material for scaffolds because it has low antigenicity and high bioactivity. With an increasing number of articles on marine collagen, the number of articles on scaffolds using marine collagen has increased in the last decade. The present Special Issue will focus on studies on potential applications of marine collagen and its derivatives (gelatin and peptides, etc.) for tissue regeneration engineering. The term "tissue regeneration engineering" in this issue includes wound healing; thus, applications of marine collagen for wound healing materials are also the target of this issue.
Dr. Yasuaki Takagi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- marine collagen
- marine gelatin
- peptides
- tissue engineering
- regeneration
- scaffold
- wound healing
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