Morphology and gelation of thermosensitive chitosan hydrogels

Biophysical Chemistry

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 47-53

  Crompton, K E ^a,b   Prankerd, R J ^c   Paganin, D M ^a   Scott, T F ^a   Horne, M K ^d   Finkelstein, D I ^d   Gross, K A ^a   Forsythe, J S ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CRC for Polymers   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chitosan; Confocal microscopy; Polysaccharide; Thermally responsive material

Indexed keywords

CHITOSAN; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; GELATION; HEAT SENSITIVITY; HYDROGEL; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CHITOSAN; GLYCEROPHOSPHATES; HEAT; HYDROGELS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 23644455813     PISSN: 03014622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2005.03.009     Document Type: Article

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