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ArticleTissue engineering and regenerative medicine2017

Effect of Thermoresponsive Poly(L-lactic acid)-poly(ethylene glycol) Gel Injection on Left Ventricular Remodeling in a Rat Myocardial Infarction Model.

Shota Somekawa, Atsushi Mahara, Kazunari Masutani, Yoshiharu Kimura, Hiroshi Urakawa, Tetsuji Yamaoka

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Article in Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Shota Somekawa1Department of Biomedical Engineering, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, 5-7-1 Fujishiro-dai, Suita, Osaka 565-8565 Japan.
Atsushi Mahara1Department of Biomedical Engineering, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, 5-7-1 Fujishiro-dai, Suita, Osaka 565-8565 Japan.
Kazunari Masutani2Department of Biobased Materials Science, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8585 Japan.
Yoshiharu Kimura2Department of Biobased Materials Science, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8585 Japan.
Hiroshi Urakawa2Department of Biobased Materials Science, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8585 Japan.
Tetsuji Yamaoka1Department of Biomedical Engineering, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, 5-7-1 Fujishiro-dai, Suita, Osaka 565-8565 Japan.
Kyoto Institute of Technology · JPNational Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Some gel types have been reported to prevent left ventricular (LV) remodeling in myocardial infarction (MI) animal models. In this study, we tested biodegradable thermoresponsive gels. Poly(L-lactic acid)-poly(ethylene glycol) (PLLA-PEG) and poly(D-lactic acid)-poly(ethylene glycol) (PDLA-PEG) were synthesized by the polycondensation of l- and D-lactic acids in the presence of PEG and succinic acid. Each of these block copolymers was used to prepare particles dispersed in an aqueous medium and mixed together to obtain a PLLA-PEG/PDLA-PEG suspension, which was found to show a sol-to-gel transition around the body temperature by the stereocomplex formation of enantiomeric PLLA and PDLA sequences. In the present study, the G' of the PLLA-PEG/PDLA-PEG suspension in the rheological measurement remained as low as 1 Pa at 20 °C and increased 2 kPa at 37 °C. The sol-gel systems of PLLA-PEG/PDLA-PEG might be applicable to gel therapy. The effect of the PLLA-PEG/PDLA-PEG gel injection was compared with that of a calcium-crosslinked alginate gel and saline in a rat MI model. The percent fractional shortening improved in the PLLA-PEG/PDLA-PEG (20.8 ± 4.1%) and alginate gel (21.1 ± 4.8%) compared with the saline (14.2 ± 2.8%) with regard to the echocardiograph 4 weeks after the injection (

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Myocardial infarctionPoly(L-lactic acid)Stereocomplex formationThermoresponsive gel

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PMID30603505
PMCPMC6171620
OpenAlexW2741695713

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