Preparation of elastic silk sericin hydrogel

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 845-847

  Teramoto, Hidetoshi ^a   Nakajima, Ken Ichi ^a   Takabayashi, Chiyuki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hydrogel; Sericin; Sericin hope; Silk; Sponge

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIALS; CHEMICALS; CROSSLINKING; ETHANOL; SILK;

COCOONS; PREPARATION METHODS; SERICIN; SILKWORMS;

HYDROGELS;

ALCOHOL; AMIDE; SERICIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELASTICITY; HEAT; HYDROGEL; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SILKWORM; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; SYNTHESIS;

AMIDES; ANIMALS; BOMBYX; ELASTICITY; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ETHANOL; HEAT; HYDROGELS; SERICINS; SOLUTIONS; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

CHEMICALS; CROSS LINKING; ETHANOL; SILK;

BOMBYX MORI;

EID: 20444371950     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.69.845     Document Type: Article

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