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SUBMITTER: Bush JR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5004929 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bush Joshua R JR Liang Haixiang H Dickinson Molly M Botchwey Edward A EA
Polymers for advanced technologies 20160202 8
The hemicellulose xylan, which has immunomodulatory effects, has been combined with chitosan to form a composite hydrogel to improve the healing of bone fractures. This thermally responsive and injectable hydrogel, which is liquid at room temperature and gels at physiological temperature, improves the response of animal host tissue compared with similar pure chitosan hydrogels in tissue engineering models. The composite hydrogel was placed in a subcutaneous model where the composite hydrogel is ...[more]