Production of bioactive glass/chitosan scaffolds by freeze-gelation for optimized vancomycin delivery: Effectiveness of glass presence on controlling the drug release kinetics

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Nagwa A. Kamel ◽  
Magdy M. Elnashar ◽  
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Samit Kumar Nandi ◽  
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Emilio Meaurio ◽  
Rebeca Hernández ◽  
Carmen Mijangos ◽  
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Chitosan (CS) and poly (vinyl alcohol) (PVA) hydrogels, a polymeric system that shows a broad potential in biomedical applications, were developed. Despite the advantages they present, their mechanical properties are insufficient to support the loads that appear on the body. Thus, it was proposed to reinforce these gels with inorganic glass particles (BG) in order to improve mechanical properties and bioactivity and to see how this reinforcement affects levofloxacin drug release kinetics. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), swelling tests, rheology and drug release studies characterized the resulting hydrogels. The experimental results verified the bioactivity of these gels, showed an improvement of the mechanical properties and proved that the added bioactive glass does affect the release kinetics.


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