Thermoreversible copolymer gels for extracellular matrix

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 69-79

  Vernon, Brent ^a,b   Kim, Sung Wan ^b   Bae, You Han ^b,c  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Acrylic acid; Biohybrid artificial pancreas; N isopropylacrylamide; Thermal reversibility

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; BENZENE; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

ACRYLIC ACID; BIOHYBRID ARTIFICIAL PANCREAS; LOWER CRITICAL SOLUTION TEMPERATURE; THERMOREVERSIBLE COPOLYMER GELS;

COPOLYMERS;

ACRYLIC ACID; BENZENE; COPOLYMER; POLY(N ISOPROPYLACRYLAMIDE); POLYMER;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL PANCREAS; CELL TYPE; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GEL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET; THERMOREGULATION;

ACRYLAMIDES; ACRYLATES; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GELS; HEAT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PANCREAS, ARTIFICIAL; POLYMERS; SOLUTIONS; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 0343294322     PISSN: 00219304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4636(200007)51:1<69::AID-JBM10>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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