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A Review of the Emerging Role of Silk for the Treatment of the Eye

Silk is a remarkable biopolymer with a long history of medical use. Silk fabrications have a robust track record for load-bearing applications, including surgical threads and meshes, which are clinically approved for use in humans. The progression of top-down and bottom-up engineering approaches usi...

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Autores principales: Tran, Simon H., Wilson, Clive G., Seib, F. Philipp
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6223815/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30397820
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11095-018-2534-y