Long-term evaluation of degradation and foreign-body reaction of subcutaneously implanted poly(DL-lactide-ε-caprolactone)

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 337-346

  Den Dunnen, W F A ^a   Robinson, P H ^a   Van Wessel, R ^a   Pennings, A J ^a   Van Leeuwen, M B M ^a   Schakenraad, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Degradation; Foreign body reaction; Poly(DL lactide caprolactone); Subcutaneous implant

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; BIODEGRADATION; COPOLYMERS;

FOREIGN BODY REACTION;

IMPLANTS (SURGICAL);

BIOMATERIAL; CAPROLACTAM DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIODEGRADATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREIGN BODY REACTION; IMPLANT; MALE; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; FOREIGN-BODY REACTION; MALE; POLYESTERS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0031554865     PISSN: 00219304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4636(19970905)36:3<337::AID-JBM9>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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