Biocompatibility of a sonicated silk gel for cervical injection during pregnancy: In vivo and in vitro study

Reproductive Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1266-1273

  Critchfield, Agatha S ^a   McCabe, Reid ^b   Klebanov, Nikolai ^b   Richey, Lauren ^c   Socrate, Simona ^d   Norwitz, Errol R ^a   Kaplan, David L ^b   House, Michael ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Tufts University   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

cerclage; cervix; injectable biomaterial; preterm birth; silk

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MACROGOL; SILK FIBROIN; SUTURE MATERIAL; BIOMATERIAL; SILK;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; FOREIGN BODY REACTION; GEL; GELATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; RAT; SONICATED SILK GEL; SUTURE; TISSUE CULTURE; UTERINE CERVIX CERCLAGE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; INTRAVAGINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; ULTRASOUND; UTERINE CERVIX;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVAGINAL; ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CERCLAGE, CERVICAL; CERVIX UTERI; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; RATS; SILK; SONICATION;

EID: 84905727795     PISSN: 19337191     EISSN: 19337205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1933719114522551     Document Type: Article

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