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Hydrogels: Oxime Cross‐Linked Injectable Hydrogels for Catheter Delivery (Adv. Mater. 21/2013)
Author(s) -
Grover Gregory N.,
Braden Rebecca L.,
Christman Karen L.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201370137
Subject(s) - self healing hydrogels , materials science , oxime , biomedical engineering , nanotechnology , polymer chemistry , medicine , organic chemistry , chemistry
Injectable hydrogels have the potential to be used for tissue engineering and biomedical applications. Karen Christman and co‐workers show on page 2937 that oxime cross‐linked hydrogels gel slowly outside of the body, even when held at body temperature, but gel quickly upon injection into the heart, thus opening up the potential for difficult minimally invasive delivery routes such as catheter delivery to the heart.