Ebook: Polymers of Biological and Biomedical Significance

Content: Polymers in pharmaceutical products / H. Park and Kinam Park --
Tissue engineering using synthetic biodegradable polymers / C.A. Vacanti, J.P. Vacanti, and R. Langer --
Interfacial biocompatibility / Yoshito Ikada --
Polymeric devices for transcutaneous and percutaneous transport / Joel L. Williams --
Microcellular foams / S.L. Roweton and Shalaby W. Shalaby --
Surface biolization by grafting polymerizable bioactive chemicals / Y. Ito, K. Suzuki, and Y. Imanishi --
Hydrophilic, lipid-resistant fluorosiloxanes / G. Friends, J. Künzler, R. Ozark, and M. Trokanski --
Synthesis of poly(ether urethane amide) segmented elastomers / A. Penhasi, M. Aronhime, and D. Cohn --
Interaction of water with polyurethanes containing hydrophilic block copolymer soft segments / N.S. Schneider, J.L. Illinger, and F.E. Karasz --
Formation and reactivity of surface phosphonylated thermoplastic polymers / K.R. Rogers and Shalaby W. Shalaby --
Surface modification of polymeric biomaterials with poly(ethylene oxide) : a steric repulsion approach / Mansoor Amiji and Kinam Park --
Ascorbic acid as an etchant-conditioner for resin bonding to dentin / James E. Code, Gary E. Schumacher, and Joseph M. Antonucci --
Salt partitioning in polyelectrolyte gel-solution systems / Yu-Ling Yin and Robert K. Prud'homme --
Ring-opening polymerization of a 2-methylene spiro orthocarbonate bearing a pendant methacrylate group / Jeffrey W. Stansbury --
Ring-opening dental resin systems based on cyclic acetals / B.B. Reed, Jeffrey W. Stansbury, and Joseph M. Antonucci --
Synthesis of novel hydrophilic and hydrophobic multifunctional acrylic monomers / Joseph M. Antonucci, Jeffrey W. Stansbury, and G.W. Cheng --
Effect of structure on properties of absorbable oxalate polymers / Russell A. Johnson and Shalaby W. Shalaby --
Fluorescent cure monitoring of dental resins / Spurgeon M. Keeny, III, Joseph M. Antonucci, Francis W. Wang, and John A. Tesk --
Activation of leukocytes by Arg-Gly-Asp-Ser-carrying microspheres / Keiji Fujimoto, Y. Kasuya, M. Miyamoto, and H. Kawaguchi --
Poly(vinyl alcohol) hydrogels prepared under different annealing conditions and their interactions with blood components / Keiji Fujimoto, Masao Minato, and Yoshito Ikada --
Phase transition's control of collagenous tissue growth and resorption including bone morphogenesis / David Gilbert Kaplan --
pH-sensitive hydrogels based on hydroxyethyl methacrylate and poly(vinyl alcohol)-methacrylate / Y.J. Wang, F.J. Liou, S.W. Tsai, and G.G.C. Niu --
Kinetic model for degradation of starch-plastic blends with controlled-release potential / Liu Zhang, John J. Harvey, and Michael A. Cole --
Cross-linking and biodegradation of native and denatured collagen / K. Tomihata, K. Burczak, K. Shiraki, and Yoshito Ikada --
Poly(methacrylic acid) hydrogels as carriers of bacterial exotoxins in an oral vaccine for cattle / T.L. Bowersock, W.S.W. Shalaby, M. Levy, M.L. Samuels, R. Lallone, M.R. White, D. Ryker, and Kinam Park --
Dye-grafted, poly(ethylene imine)-coated, formed-in-place class affinity membranes for selective separation of proteins / Y. Li and H.G. Spencer --
Preparation of insulin-releasing Chinese hamster ovary cell by transfection of human insulin gene : its implantation into diabetic mice / H. Iwata, N. Ogawa, T. Takagi, and J. Mizoguchi --
pH- and ionic-strength-dependent permeation through poly(L-lysine-alt-terephthalic acid) microcapsule membranes / Kimiko Makino, Ei-ichi Miyauchi, Yuko Togawa, Hiroyuki Ohshima, and Tamotsu Kondo.