Survey of 138 Conjunctival Tumors in the Dominican Republic.

Purpose: To report the frequency of conjunctival tumors in the Dominican Republic.

Methods: Retrospective noninterventional case series. One hundred thirty-eight consecutive patients with a conjunctival mass evaluated at two tertiary referral centers from 2010 to 2018.

Generation of genipin cross-linked fibrin-agarose hydrogel tissue-like models for tissue engineering applications.

The generation of biomimetic and biocompatible artificial tissues is the basic research objective for tissue engineering (TE). In this sense, the biofabrication of scaffolds that resemble the tissues' extracellular matrix is an essential aim in this field. Uncompressed and nanostructured fibrin-agarose hydrogels (FAH and NFAH, respectively) have emerged as promising scaffolds in TE, but their structure and biomechanical properties must be improved in order to broaden their TE applications.