A Statistical Kinetic Model for the Bulk Degradation of PLA-b-PEG-b-PLA Hydrogel Networks

By A. Metters, andR. C. Bowman, K. Anseth. 2000

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Organic Chemistry

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• Hydrolysis and Biodegradation of Poly(lactic acid) (2017, background): “radation products as well as by the increasing concentration of carboxylic acid at chain end [39-43] In the following, the effect of several main parameters on the evolution of hydrolytic degradation is reported.”
• Hydrogels in controlled release formulations: network design and mathematical modeling. (2006, background): “further described the release of encapsulated macromolecules from bulk-degrading, covalently crosslinked PLA–PEG–PLA hydrogels considering network structure as well as degradation kinetics [55,56].”
• Cell Encapsulation in Biodegradable Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering Applications (2008, unknown): “47,117 The ester bonds may also degrade by esterases present in serum, which accelerates degradation.”
• Review: Photopolymerizable and Degradable Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering Applications (2007, unknown): “A second-generation model incorporating network non-idealities was also introduced.(56) For tissue-engineering applications, the acrylated PEGb-PLA macromers have been primarily explored for the regeneration of musculoskeletal tissues.”