Electrospun drug-eluting sutures for local anesthesia

Electrospun drug-eluting sutures for local anesthesia

We have developed a local anesthetic-eluting suture system which would combine the function and ubiquity of the suture for surgical repair with the controlled release properties of a biodegradable polymeric matrix. Drug-free and drug-loaded poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) sutures were fabricate...

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Main Authors: Weldon, Christopher B. (Author), Tsui, Jonathan H. (Author), Shankarappa, Sahadev A. (Author), Nguyen, Vy T. (Contributor), Ma, Minglin (Contributor), Kohane, Daniel S. (Author), Anderson, Daniel Griffith (Contributor)
Other Authors: Harvard University- (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering (Contributor), Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier, 2016-02-09T14:08:30Z.
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