Recent Advances in Elastin-Based Biomaterial

• Main Authors: María Luisa Del Prado Audelo (Author), Néstor Mendoza-Muñoz (Author), Lidia Escutia-Guadarrama (Author), David Giraldo-Gomez (Author), Maykel González-Torres (Author), Benjamín Florán (Author), Hernán Cortés (Author), Gerardo Leyva-Gomez (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2020-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

Elastin is one of the main components of the extracellular matrix; it provides resistance and elasticity to a variety of tissues and organs of the human body, besides participating in cellular signaling. On the other hand, elastin-derived peptides are synthetic biopolymers with a similar conformatio...