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A Supramolecular Shear-Thinning Anti-Inflammatory Steroid Hydrogel
Qian Liu1, Changyou Zhan1, Aoune Barhoumi1
1Laboratory for Biomaterials and Drug Delivery, Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
|May 24, 2016
Abstract:
Shear-thinning and self-healing steroid-drug-based hydrogels are presented, which exhibit rapid and complete recovery of their mechanical properties within seconds following stress-induced flow. The hydrogels release steroid drug in vivo with no visible residue when release is complete.
