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Biomedical Applications of Biodegradable Polyesters

The focus in the field of biomedical engineering has shifted in recent years to biodegradable polymers and, in particular, polyesters. Dozens of polyester-based medical devices are commercially available, and every year more are introduced to the market. The mechanical performance and wide range of...

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Autores principales: Manavitehrani, Iman, Fathi, Ali, Badr, Hesham, Daly, Sean, Negahi Shirazi, Ali, Dehghani, Fariba
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6432531/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30979116
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym8010020
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description The focus in the field of biomedical engineering has shifted in recent years to biodegradable polymers and, in particular, polyesters. Dozens of polyester-based medical devices are commercially available, and every year more are introduced to the market. The mechanical performance and wide range of biodegradation properties of this class of polymers allow for high degrees of selectivity for targeted clinical applications. Recent research endeavors to expand the application of polymers have been driven by a need to target the general hydrophobic nature of polyesters and their limited cell motif sites. This review provides a comprehensive investigation into advanced strategies to modify polyesters and their clinical potential for future biomedical applications.
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spelling pubmed-64325312019-04-02 Biomedical Applications of Biodegradable Polyesters Manavitehrani, Iman Fathi, Ali Badr, Hesham Daly, Sean Negahi Shirazi, Ali Dehghani, Fariba Polymers (Basel) Review The focus in the field of biomedical engineering has shifted in recent years to biodegradable polymers and, in particular, polyesters. Dozens of polyester-based medical devices are commercially available, and every year more are introduced to the market. The mechanical performance and wide range of biodegradation properties of this class of polymers allow for high degrees of selectivity for targeted clinical applications. Recent research endeavors to expand the application of polymers have been driven by a need to target the general hydrophobic nature of polyesters and their limited cell motif sites. This review provides a comprehensive investigation into advanced strategies to modify polyesters and their clinical potential for future biomedical applications. MDPI 2016-01-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6432531/ /pubmed/30979116 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym8010020 Text en © 2016 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons by Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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