Transl Androl Urol, Vol 3, Suppl 1 September 2014 www.amepc.org/tau © Translational Andrology and Urology. All rights reserved. free or pedicle grafts, and venous grafting for the corpora cavernosa, injection of synthetic dermal filler. Currently, as the need for safer, effective and less-invasive procedures is increasing, enhancement procedures using injectable products are in high demand. Inj...

Bone regeneration is a complex, physiological process of bone formation, which can be seen during normal fracture healing, and is involved in continuous remodeling throughout adult life. However, there are complex clinical conditions in which bone regeneration is required in large quantity, such as for skeletal reconstruction of large bone defects created by trauma, infection, tumor resection a...

Among 2528 patients operated on using pins, rods, bolts, and screws made of polyglycolic acid or polylactic acid, 108 (4.3%) were affected by a clinically significant local inflammatory, sterile tissue reaction. The three most common indications for the use of these fixation devices were a displaced malleolar fracture, a chevron osteotomy for hallux valgus, and a displaced fracture of the radia...

objective(s): the current study reports the production and biocompatibility evaluation of a ternary nanocomposite consisting of ha, pla, and gelatin for biomedical application.materials and methods: hydroxyapatite nanopowder (ha: ca10(po4)6(oh)2) was produced by burning the bovine cortical bone within the temperature range of 350-450 oc followed by heating in an oven at 800. synthesis of the te...

biological materials. recently. are the building blocks of several self-assembling peptide and protein systems.the main challenge in molecular self-assembly is to design molecular building blocks that can undergospontaneous organization. these cyche peptides were produced by an alternating fl'ell number of d- and laminoacids.which interact through non-covalent interactions co an array of selfas...

Abbreviations MEMS Microelectromechanical systems NEMS Nano-electromechanical systems PCL Polycaprolactone PET Polyethylene terephthalate PGA Polyglycolic acid PLA Polylactic acid PU Polyurethane PTFE Poly(tetrafl uoroethylene) PMMA Polymethylmethacrylate UHMWPE Ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene

Numerous studies have shown that the physicochemical properties of biomaterials can control cell activity. Cell adhesion, proliferation, differentiation as well as tissue formation in vivo can be tuned by properties such as the porosity, surface micro- and nanoscale topography and chemical composition of biomaterials. This concept is very appealing for tissue engineering since instructive prope...

Thermoplastic starch, polylactic acid glycerol and maleic anhydride (MA) were compounded with natural montmorillonite (MMT) through a twin screw extruder to investigate the effects of different loading of MMT on structure, thermal and absorption behavior of the nanocomposites. X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD) showed that sample with MMT loading 4phr exhibited exfoliated structure while sample t...

In recent year, biocompatible, biodegradable materials (linear polylactic acid-based urethanes) in the solid and/or liquid form have attracted tremendous attention in biomedical application particularly in stent coating. Low molecular weight poly (lactic acid) s (PLA), having narrow molecular weight distribution was by dehydropolycondensation method using tetraphenyltin as a catalyst. Hydroxyl ...