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ArticlePolymers2021

pH-Responsive Succinoglycan-Carboxymethyl Cellulose Hydrogels with Highly Improved Mechanical Strength for Controlled Drug Delivery Systems.

Younghyun Shin, Dajung Kim, Yiluo Hu, Yohan Kim, In Ki Hong, Moo Sung Kim, Seunho Jung

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Article in Polymers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17 citing papers in PubMed, 52 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Younghyun ShinCenter for Biotechnology Research in UBITA (CBRU), Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Korea.
Dajung KimCenter for Biotechnology Research in UBITA (CBRU), Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-0361-2497
Yiluo HuCenter for Biotechnology Research in UBITA (CBRU), Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Korea.
Yohan KimCenter for Biotechnology Research in UBITA (CBRU), Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Korea.
In Ki HongCovergence Technology Laboratory, Kolmar Korea, 61, Heolleung-ro-8-gil, Seocho-gu, Seoul 06800, Korea.
Moo Sung KimMacrocare, 32 Gangni 1-gil, Cheongju 28126, Korea.
Seunho JungCenter for Biotechnology Research in UBITA (CBRU), Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Konkuk University, Seoul 05029, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-0801-9342
Konkuk University · KRKolmar Korea (South Korea) · KR

Funding

Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy 20016324, Development of biomaterials based on novel microbial exopolysacchridesNational Research Foundation of Korea NRF-2021R1A2C1013120
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC)-based hydrogels are generally superabsorbent and biocompatible, but their low mechanical strength limits their application. To overcome these drawbacks, we used bacterial succinoglycan (SG), a biocompatible natural polysaccharide, as a double crosslinking strategy to produce novel interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) hydrogels in a non-bead form. These new SG/CMC-based IPN hydrogels significantly increased the mechanical strength while maintaining the characteristic superabsorbent property of CMC-based hydrogels. The SG/CMC gels exhibited an 8.5-fold improvement in compressive stress and up to a 6.5-fold higher storage modulus (G') at the same strain compared to the CMC alone gels. Furthermore, SG/CMC gels not only showed pH-controlled drug release for 5-fluorouracil but also did not show any cytotoxicity to HEK-293 cells. This suggests that SG/CMC hydrogels could be used as future biomedical biomaterials for drug delivery.

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carboxymethyl cellulosedrug deliveryhydrogelsmetal coordinationsuccinoglycanswelling properties

Identifiers

PMID34578098
PMCPMC8467855
OpenAlexW3198958363

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