Bioactive hydrogels made from step-growth derived PEG–peptide macromers
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Bioactive hydrogels made from step-growth derived PEG-peptide macromers.
Synthetic hydrogels based on poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) have been used as biomaterials for cell biology and tissue engineering investigations. Bioactive PEG-based gels have largely relied on heterobifunctional or multi-arm PEG precursors that can be difficult to synthesize and characterize or expensive to obtain. Here, we report an alternative strategy, which instead uses inexpensive and readi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biomaterials
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0142-9612
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2010.01.058