Elevated temperature degradation of a 50:50 copolymer of PLA-PGA

Tissue Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 345-352

  Agrawal, C Mauli ^a   Huang, D ^a   Schmitz, J P ^a   Athanasiou, K A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; COPOLYMER; POLYGLACTIN; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; POLYLACTIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; IMPLANT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PH; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

EID: 0031471499     PISSN: 10763279     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.1997.3.345     Document Type: Article

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