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Stacey C Skaalure1, Umut Akalp2, Franck J Vernerey3, Stephanie J Bryant4.
Abstract
Enzyme-sensitive hydrogels are promising for cell encapsulation and tissue engineering, but result in complex spatiotemporal degradation behavior that is characteristic of reaction-diffusion mechanisms. An experimental and theoretical approach is presented to identify dimensionless quantities that serve as a design tool for engineering enzyme-sensitive hydrogels with controlled degradation patterns by tuning the initial hydrogel properties and enzyme kinetics.Entities:
Keywords: computational models; enzyme degradation; hydrogel; reaction-diffusion; tissue engineering
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Year: 2016 PMID: 26781187 PMCID: PMC4972608 DOI: 10.1002/adhm.201500728
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Adv Healthc Mater ISSN: 2192-2640 Impact factor: 9.933