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Surgical Sutures with Porous Sheaths for the Sustained Release of Growth Factors
Jianhua Li1,2, Stephen W Linderman3,4, Chunlei Zhu1
1The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA.
Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
|April 10, 2016
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.
