Modified Gellan Gum hydrogels with tunable physical and mechanical properties

Biomaterials

Volumn 31, Issue 29, 2010, Pages 7494-7502

  Coutinho, Daniela F ^a,b,c   Sant, Shilpa V ^b,c   Shin, Hyeongho ^b,d   Oliveira, João T ^a   Gomes, Manuela E ^a   Neves, Nuno M ^a   Khademhosseini, Ali ^b,c   Reis, Rui L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodegradable hydrogel; Mechanical properties; Methacrylated Gellan Gum; Physical and chemical crosslinking; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADABLE HYDROGEL; BIODEGRADABLE HYDROGELS; CHEMICAL CROSS-LINKING; GELLAN GUM; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL CROSSLINKING;

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIOMECHANICS; CELL CULTURE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CROSSLINKING; DEGRADATION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MECHANISMS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; POSITIVE IONS; RESONANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

HYDROGELS;

DIVALENT CATION; METHACRYLIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CROSS LINKING; ENCAPSULATION; FIBROBLAST; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HYDROGEL; HYDROLYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; INFRARED RADIATION; KINETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SWELLING; TEMPERATURE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; YOUNG MODULUS;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; HYDROGELS; METHACRYLATES; MICE; NIH 3T3 CELLS; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 77955272814     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2010.06.035     Document Type: Article

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