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- Title
The Importance of Antioxidant Biomaterials in Human Health and Technological Innovation: A Review.
- Authors
Pedro, Alessandra Cristina; Paniz, Oscar Giordani; Fernandes, Isabela de Andrade Arruda; Bortolini, Débora Gonçalves; Rubio, Fernanda Thaís Vieira; Haminiuk, Charles Windson Isidoro; Maciel, Giselle Maria; Magalhães, Washington Luiz Esteves
- Abstract
Biomaterials come from natural sources such as animals, plants, fungi, algae, and bacteria, composed mainly of protein, lipid, and carbohydrate molecules. The great diversity of biomaterials makes these compounds promising for developing new products for technological applications. In this sense, antioxidant biomaterials have been developed to exert biological and active functions in the human body and industrial formulations. Furthermore, antioxidant biomaterials come from natural sources, whose components can inhibit reactive oxygen species (ROS). Thus, these materials incorporated with antioxidants, mainly from plant sources, have important effects, such as anti-inflammatory, wound healing, antitumor, and anti-aging, in addition to increasing the shelf-life of products. Aiming at the importance of antioxidant biomaterials in different technological segments as biodegradable, economic, and promising sources, this review presents the main available biomaterials, antioxidant sources, and assigned biological activities. In addition, potential applications in the biomedical and industrial fields are described with a focus on innovative publications found in the literature in the last five years.
- Subjects
BIOMATERIALS; REACTIVE oxygen species
- Publication
Antioxidants, 2022, Vol 11, Issue 9, p1644
- ISSN
2076-3921
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/antiox11091644