An investigation of the in vivo stability of poly(ether urethaneurea) blood sacs

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 371-380

  Wu, Limin ^a   Weisberg, David M ^a   Runt, James ^a   Felder III, George ^a   Snyder, Alan J ^a   Rosenberg, Gerson ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial heart; Degradation; In vivo study; Poly(urethaneurea); Surface chemistry

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; BIODEGRADATION; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYURETHANES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

POLYETHER URETHANEUREA;

IMPLANTS (SURGICAL);

POLYURETHAN;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIODEGRADATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMPLANTATION; IN VIVO STUDY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BLOOD; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; HEART, ARTIFICIAL; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0033558884     PISSN: 00219304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4636(19990315)44:4<371::AID-JBM2>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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