PROPERTIES OF A HEPARIN-POLY(VINYL ALCOHOL) HYDROGEL COATING
PROPERTIES OF A HEPARIN-POLY(VINYL ALCOHOL) HYDROGEL COATING
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DOI:
10.1002/jbm.820170212
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发表时间:
1983-01-01
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通讯作者:
SEFTON, MV
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作者:
GOOSEN, MFA;SEFTON, MV
Some physical, chemical and biological characteristics of a heparin-PVA[poly(vinyl alcohol)] hydrogel potentially useful as a thromboresistant coating for the preparation of small-diameter vascular prostheses and blood-sampling catheters were determined. The MW between crosslinks in the acetal crosslinked gel was .apprx. 8000, permitting proteins the size of albumin to enter the interior of the gel. The release rate of heparin from a gel containing 7 mg/g gel was 10-2 .mu.g/g min which was significantly lower than the reported minimum required for thromboresistance of ionically heparinized materials. Nevertheless, in vitro biological activity was observed in both thrombin time and plasma recalcification time assays, which could not be attributed to the release of heparin into the incubated plasma. Correlation of final heparin contents with the amount of terminal amino acid residues in 3 samples of heparin suggests that the heparin is bound to the PVA in the gel through the amino acid terminus; this provides a plausible explanation for the retention of biological activity by the immobilized heparin.