An Overview of the Use of Equine Collagen as Emerging Material for Biomedical Applications.

ABSTRACT: Type I collagen has always aroused great interest in the field of life-science and bioengineering, thanks to its favorable structural properties and bioactivity. For this reason, in the last five decades it has been widely studied and employed as biomaterial for the manufacture of implantable medical devices. Commonly used sources of collagen are represented by bovine and swine but their applications are limited because of the zoonosis transmission risks, the immune response and the religious constrains. Thus, type-I collagen isolated from horse tendon has recently gained increasing interest as an attractive alternative, so that, although bovine and porcine derived collagens still remain the most common ones, more and more companies started to bring to market a various range of equine coll

SUBMITTER: Gallo N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7712325 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature