Chitosan implants in the rat spinal cord: Biocompatibility and biodegradation

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part A

Volumn 97 A, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 395-404

  Kim, Howard ^a,b   Tator, Charles H ^a,c   Shoichet, Molly S ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

biocompatibility; biodegradation; chitosan; Gore Tex; poly(tetrafluoroethylene); polyglycolide; spinal cord; vicryl

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TISSUES; COMMERCIAL MATERIALS; DEGRADATION PROFILES; EXPANDED POLY(TETRAFLUOROETHYLENE); GORE-TEX; HOST TISSUES; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMPLANTATION MODELS; IN-VIVO; INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE; INTRATHECAL; MASS LOSS; POLYGLACTIN; POLYGLYCOLIDE; RAT SPINAL CORD; SEM; SPINAL CORDS; VICRYL;

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIODEGRADATION; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CHITIN; CHITOSAN; DEGRADATION; DOSIMETRY; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; MICROBIOLOGY;

POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENES;

CHITOSAN; POLITEF; POLYGLACTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIODEGRADATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; MACROPHAGE; MICROGLIA; NONHUMAN; PARENCHYMA; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPINAL CORD; TISSUE REACTION;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CHITOSAN; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMPLANTS, EXPERIMENTAL; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; POLYGLACTIN 910; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 79955646924     PISSN: 15493296     EISSN: 15524965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.33070     Document Type: Article

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