Curing behavior of silicone elastomer in the presence of two corticosteroid drugs

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part B Applied Biomaterials

Volumn 100 B, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1636-1644

  Farahmandghavi, Farhid ^a   Imani, Mohammad ^a   Mirzadeh, Hamid ^b   Jolly, Claude ^c  

^a IRAN POLYMER AND PETROCHEMICAL INSTITUTE   (Iran)

^b AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c MED EL GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

analytical techniques; corticosteroids; curing behavior; drug loading; silicone elastomer

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; CORTICOSTEROIDS; CURING BEHAVIOR; DRUG LOADING; SILICONE ELASTOMERS;

CURING; DRUG PRODUCTS; ELECTRIC INSULATORS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); LOADING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PHOSPHATES; PLASTICS; RUBBER COMPOUNDING; SILICONES; SODIUM COMPOUNDS;

ELASTOMERS;

DEXAMETHASONE; DEXAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE; ELASTOMER; INORGANIC ACID; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; SILASTIC;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CROSS LINKING; CURING; DEPOLYMERIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DRUG STRUCTURE; FLOW MEASUREMENT; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OSCILLATING DISK RHEOMETRY; THERMAL ANALYSIS;

DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; SILICONE ELASTOMERS; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

EID: 84863716277     PISSN: 15524973     EISSN: 15524981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.b.32732     Document Type: Article

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