Surgical Sutures with Porous Sheaths for the Sustained Release of Growth Factors
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- 作者：Jianhua Li ; Stephen W. Linderman ; Chunlei Zhu ; Hong Liu ; Stavros Thomopoulos and Younan Xia
- 刊名：Advanced Materials
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：June 15, 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：28
- 期：23
- 页码：4620-4624
- 全文大小：4847K
- ISSN：1521-4095
文摘
Surgical sutures with highly porous sheaths are developed using a swelling and freeze-drying procedure without compromising their mechanical properties. The modified sutures show a high capacity for loading biofactors and are able to release the loaded biofactors in a sustained manner.