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Cover Picture: Organ Repair, Hemostasis, and In Vivo Bonding of Medical Devices by Aqueous Solutions of Nanoparticles (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 25/2014)
Author(s) -
MeddahiPellé Anne,
Legrand Aurélie,
Marcellan Alba,
Louedec Liliane,
Letourneur Didier,
Leibler Ludwik
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201404300
Subject(s) - in vivo , hemostasis , nanoparticle , aqueous solution , regenerative medicine , biomedical engineering , materials science , nanotechnology , surgery , medicine , chemistry , biochemistry , biology , organic chemistry , microbiology and biotechnology , cell
Rapid and efficient repair in vivo by the concept of nanobridging—adhesion by aqueous solutions of nanoparticles—even under hemorrhagic conditions in soft organs, such as the liver, for which sutures are traumatic, is described by D. Letourneur, L. Leibler et al. in their Communication on page 6369 ff. The method also leads to the remarkably aesthetic healing of deep skin wounds. Nanobridging also allows medical devices to be fixed to tissues, thereby opening new avenues for surgery and regenerative medicine.