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A highly elastic and rapidly crosslinkable elastin-like polypeptide-based hydrogel for biomedical applications comments

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Elastic hydrogels carry the potential to serve as scaffolds for various biomedical applications. Though some elastic hydrogels are biocompatible, most of the synthetic polymer-based elastic scaffolds lack bioactive sequences to promote cell adhesion or migration, which is important for their application in tissue engineering...
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Recombinant human proteoglycan 4 releasing in situ cross-linking hyaluronic acid hydrogels for reducing post-surgical adhesions comments

by Tannin Schmidt Graeme Prosperi-Porta
Postsurgical adhesions are a significant source of morbidity causing bowel obstruction, ischemia, infertility or ectopic pregnancies following intraabdominal surgery 1 ...
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Drug-eluting biodegradable porous iron for bone scaffolds comments

by Hendra Hermawan
Bone metastases have been treated by several methods including surgery and chemotherapy. One treatment by surgery involves removal of cancerous bone and implantation of a scaffold or graft to fill the void and to allow new bone formation...
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Egg Albumen as a Fast and Strong Medical Adhesive Glue comments

by Mengqiu (Malcolm) Xing Kaige Xu
Sutures penetrate tissues to close wounds. This process leads to inflammatory responses, prolongs healing time, and increase operation complexity...
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Effect of calcium incubation versus mineralization in polyplex transfection efficiency of MC3T3 E-1 mouse osteoblasts comments

by Hasan Uludag
Mineralization is a widely used technique to coat materials with calcium phosphate or calcium carbonate layers for cell delivery applications...
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