Surgical Sutures with Porous Sheaths for the Sustained Release of Growth Factors.

Li, Jianhua; Linderman, Stephen W; Zhu, Chunlei; Liu, Hong; Thomopoulos, Stavros; Xia, Younan · Adv Mater · 2016

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Surgical sutures with highly porous sheaths are developed using a swelling and freeze-drying procedure without compromising their mechanical properties. The modified sutures show a high capacity for loading biofactors and are able to release the loaded biofactors in a sustained manner.

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