Marine Organisms for Bone Regeneration
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 March 2019) | Viewed by 44786
Special Issue Editors
Interests: bone repair; regenerative medicine; biomaterials; novel drugs
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Bioprospecting and technological advances allowing high-through-put screening, has seen a surge of interest in the identification of anti-cancer, anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory compounds from the marine environment. The search for compounds with more niche applications, such as bone repair, has been slower, yet marine organisms, themselves, in the form of coral, have been used as a bone substitute material since the 1970s and the marine environment is a rich source of mineralizing porous organisms. In this Special Issue, we would like to explore the potential of products derived from marine organisms to promote bone repair, bone regeneration and bone development. The potential approaches are wide and varied; extraction of bioactive compounds with osteogenic activity, marine organisms as a source of osteogenic ions, marine organisms as bioactive adjuncts to traditional bone scaffold materials, porous marine organisms as biomimetic scaffolds or as templates for novel materials.
We invite manuscripts that explore any aspect of this research topic, ranging from the chemical extraction of novel osteogenic bioactive compounds to the use of the whole organism as a scaffold for bone tissue engineering, and everything in between.
Dr. Susan A ClarkeProf. Dr. Fraser Buchanan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bone
- osteogenic
- mineralising
- bioactives
- marine organisms
- tissue engineering
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