Water-soluble photoinitiators in biomedical applications

W Tomal, J Ortyl - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Light-initiated polymerization processes are currently an important tool in various industrial
fields. The advancement of technology has resulted in the use of photopolymerization in …

Controlled ring-opening polymerization of lactide and glycolide

O Dechy-Cabaret, B Martin-Vaca… - Chemical reviews, 2004 - ACS Publications
Synthetic petrochemical-based polymers have had a tremendous industrial impact since the
1940s. Despite the numerous advantages of these materials, two major drawbacks remain …

Polymeric gels and hydrogels for biomedical and pharmaceutical applications

J Jagur‐Grodzinski - Polymers for Advanced Technologies, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogels are formed when a three‐dimensional polymeric network is loosely crosslinked.
They are swollen by water but not dissolved in it. Hydrogels may display reversible sol–gel …

Impact of blood collection devices on clinical chemistry assays

RAR Bowen, GL Hortin, G Csako, OH Otañez… - Clinical …, 2010 - Elsevier
Blood collection devices interact with blood to alter blood composition, serum, or plasma
fractions and in some cases adversely affect laboratory tests. Vascular access devices may …

Polyesters based on diacid monomers

U Edlund, AC Albertsson - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2003 - Elsevier
Polymers with ester linkages in their main chain comprise a family of polymers with immense
diversity and versatility. This review deals with the preparation of such polymers from …

Photo-crosslinked synthetic biodegradable polymer networks for biomedical applications

B van Bochove, DW Grijpma - Journal of Biomaterials Science …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Photo-crosslinked synthetic biodegradable polymer networks are highly interesting
materials for utilization in biomedical applications such as drug delivery, cell encapsulation …

In vivo bone and soft tissue response to injectable, biodegradable oligo (poly (ethylene glycol) fumarate) hydrogels

H Shin, PQ Ruhé, AG Mikos, JA Jansen - Biomaterials, 2003 - Elsevier
This study was designed to assess in vivo bone and soft tissue behavior of novel oligo (poly
(ethylene glycol) fumarate)(OPF) hydrogels using a rabbit model. In vitro degradation of the …

Photoinitiated polymerization of biomaterials

JP Fisher, D Dean, PS Engel… - Annual review of …, 2001 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Photoinitiated polymerization and polymer crosslinking are viable strategies for
biomaterial synthesis because of the mild temperatures and neutral pH environments in …

Hydrogels for musculoskeletal tissue engineering

S Varghese, JH Elisseeff - Polymers for regenerative medicine, 2006 - Springer
The advancements in scaffold-supported cell therapy for musculoskeletal tissue engineering
have been truly dramatic in the last couple of decades. This article briefly reviews the role of …

Multidrug release based on microneedle arrays filled with pH-responsive PLGA hollow microspheres

CJ Ke, YJ Lin, YC Hu, WL Chiang, KJ Chen, WC Yang… - Biomaterials, 2012 - Elsevier
This work presents an approach to codelivering transdermally two model drugs, Alexa 488
and Cy5, in sequence, based on a system of polyvinylpyrrolidone microneedles (PVP MNs) …