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ArticlePolymers2020

Chitosan/PAMAM/Hydroxyapatite Engineered Drug Release Hydrogels with Tunable Rheological Properties.

Alessandro Pistone, Daniela Iannazzo, Consuelo Celesti, Cristina Scolaro, Salvatore V Giofré, Roberto Romeo, Annamaria Visco

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Article in Polymers, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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Alessandro PistoneDepartment of Engineering, University of Messina, Contrada Di Dio, I-98166 Messina, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9298-944X
Daniela IannazzoDepartment of Engineering, University of Messina, Contrada Di Dio, I-98166 Messina, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2190-0035
Consuelo CelestiDepartment of Engineering, University of Messina, Contrada Di Dio, I-98166 Messina, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-1393-477X
Cristina ScolaroDepartment of Engineering, University of Messina, Contrada Di Dio, I-98166 Messina, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5725-9839
Salvatore V GiofréDepartment of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Viale Annunziata, I-98168 Messina, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3117-587X
Roberto RomeoDepartment of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Viale Annunziata, I-98168 Messina, Italy.
Annamaria ViscoDepartment of Engineering, University of Messina, Contrada Di Dio, I-98166 Messina, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-1602-9361

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this paper, a new formulation of biodegradable and bioresorbable chitosan-based hydrogel for controlled drug release was investigated. A chitosan-dendrimer-hydroxyapatite hydrogel, obtained by covalently grafting chitosan powder with an hyperbranched PAMAM dendrimer followed by in-situ precipitation of hydroxyapatite and gelification, was synthesized and characterized by FTIR, NMR, TGA, XRD and rheological studies. The hydrogels have been also doped with an anti-inflammatory drug (ketoprofen) in order to investigate their drug release properties. Chemical and chemical-physical characterizations confirmed the successful covalent functionalization of chitosan with PAMAM and the synthesis of nanostructured hydroxyapatite. The developed hydrogel made it possible to obtain an innovative system with tunable rheological and drug-releasing properties relative to the well-known formulation containing chitosan and hydroxyapatite powder. The developed hydrogel showed different rheological and drug-releasing properties of chitosan matrix mixed with hydroxyapatite as a function of dendrimer molecular weight; therefore, the chitosan-dendrimer-hydroxyapatite hydrogel can couple the well-known osteoconductive properties of hydroxyapatite with the drug-release behavior and good processability of chitosan-dendrimer hydrogels, opening new approaches in the field of tissue engineering based on biopolymeric scaffolds.

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chitosanhydroxyapatitePAMAM dendrimerrheological propertiestissue engineering

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PMID32244275
PMCPMC7240481

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