Poly glycerol sebacate Bioelastomer and its Derivatives

Glycerol is a key component in the synthesis of phospholipids, and sebacic acid is the natural metabolic intermediate in the oxidation of fatty acid ° in 

Weight loss-degradation time curves of the TM-PGS bioelastomers prepared by two steps using the PGS prepolymers with different molecular weights (phosphate buffer solutions, pH = 7.4, 37 °C) (a) = 1681 g 

Mass loss of the Acr-PGS bioelastomers during the in vivo (black, dorsal pocket of male Sprague-Dawley rats) and in vitro (white, phosphate buffer solutions, pH = 7.2, 37 °C) degradation at 2, 4 and 8 weeks. Source Ifkovits et al.  

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