In situ cross-linkable hyaluronan hydrogels containing polymeric nanoparticles for preventing postsurgical adhesions

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 245, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 819-824

  Yeo, Yoon ^a   Ito, Taichi ^a   Bellas, Evangelia ^a   Highley, Christopher B ^a   Marini, Robert ^a   Kohane, Daniel S ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYALURONIC ACID; NANOPARTICLE; POLYGLACTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MESOTHELIUM CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM ADHESION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYRINGE;

ADHESIONS; ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYALURONIC ACID; HYDROGELS; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LACTIC ACID; MALE; MICE; NANOPARTICLES; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; POLYMERS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RABBITS;

EID: 34247561766     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000251519.49405.55     Document Type: Article

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