Sentences with phrase «injected hydrogel»

But the scientists noticed something odd when they ran control experiments in which they injected the hydrogel without added cells: Some of the animals» hearts still showed improvement compared with untreated animals.

They found that when arthritis was more severe, the locally injected hydrogel degraded more rapidly corresponding to increased drug release.

Not exact matches

The study most often used to argue that hydrogel is dangerous found it was toxic only when injected directly into a rat's vein or body cavity.

When hydrogel was injected just below a rat's skin, it wasn't toxic.

The hydrogel would be injected in liquid form and would polymerize in the transplant site, creating a flexible gel that would conform to bodily structures to improve both blood vessel connections and tissue integration.

The chitosan and polyvinyl alcohol composite hydrogel containing hTGFβ - 1 gene modified BMSCs was injected into rabbits with defective articular cartilage.

Some experimental heart attack treatments require surgery to open up the chest, but the two hydrogel materials already in clinical trials are injected into the damaged tissue through a long catheter inserted through the skin — eliminating the need for open - chest surgery.

In experiments carried out in the lab, BWH bioengineers have developed a hydrogel — a soft, flexible material that can be loaded with arthritis drugs and injected locally into an inflamed joint.

Scientists worldwide have tried to inject chemical hydrogels into living cells to study them, but usually the cells become sick, likely due to toxicity from the chemicals.

Eduardo Mendizábal Mijares, professor at the Department of Chemistry, in the University of Guadalajara, said «we used nano - hydrogels loaded with drugs and injected them into the patient.

The hydrogel - drug combo is injected under the skin after transplant surgery.

Two days after the nanosponge - hydrogel was injected underneath the skin of a mouse, nearly 80 percent of the nanosponges were still found at the injection site.

After the filaments are injected into the body, the resulting hydrogel network functions as a drug depot that slowly degrades by breaking down into spherical nanomaterials called micelles, which are programmed to travel to specific targets.

«After injecting the nanosponge - hydrogel at the infected spot, we observed that it absorbed the toxins secreted by the bacteria and prevented further damage to the local blood, skin and muscle tissues,» said Zhang.

To investigate this hypothesis, the authors injected a collagen hydrogel into the kidneys of mice with ischemia / reperfusion damage and assessed the consequences at four weeks.

A team of MIT researchers has developed a new, self - healing hydrogel that doesn't require surgical implantation, but can be injected using a syringe.