| Literature DB >> 27059654 |
Jianhua Li1,2, Stephen W Linderman3,4, Chunlei Zhu1, Hong Liu2, Stavros Thomopoulos5,6, Younan Xia1,7,8.
Abstract
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.Entities:
Keywords: drug delivery; sustained release; suture; tendon repair
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Year: 2016 PMID: 27059654 PMCID: PMC4938160 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201506242
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Adv Mater ISSN: 0935-9648 Impact factor: 30.849