Bacterial cellulose (BC) grown from a culture medium in the presence of water-soluble poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) produced an assemblage that was used as precursor for the synthesis of biocompatible nanocomposites. Physical crosslinking via cyclic freezing and thawing of the formed hydrogel facilitated retention of PVA matrix upon composite separation and purification. The composites displayed a ...

A novel development on halloysite-polyvinyl alcohol (HNTs-PVA) nanocomposites has been conducted using malonic acid (MA) by crosslinking PVA and HNTs. PVA-MA crosslinking produces smooth surfaces, which play an important role in enhancing the properties of HNTs-PVA nanocomposite. The crystallographic structures of crosslinked HNTs-PVA show almost no change as depicted by the X-ray diffraction (...

PURPOSE To evaluate the in vivo and in vitro properties of collagen-coated acrylic microspheres and to compare them with polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) particles. METHODS Samples of 100- to 300-microns, 300- to 500-microns, 500- to 700-microns, and 700- to 900-microns collagen-coated acrylic microspheres and 200- to 300-microns PVA particles were suspended in solutions of 50% saline and 50% contrast...

The aim of this review was to analyze/investigate the synthesis, properties, and applications of polyvinyl alcohol-halloysite nanotubes (PVA-HNT), and their nanocomposites. Different polymers with versatile properties are attractive because of their introduction and potential uses in many fields. Synthetic polymers, such as PVA, natural polymers like alginate, starch, chitosan, or any material ...

Wound dressing is an artificial skin that can meet the requirements such as higher vapor or gas permeation and protection of wound from infection and dehydration. Poly (vinyl alcohol) (PVA) hydrogel is one of the well-known polymer gel that due to its good biocompatibility, hydrophilicity and capability of swell in water or biological fluids has been used in several biomedical and pharmaceutica...

Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) / starch (S) /Carboxy methyl cellulose (CMC) composite films were prepared from PVA, three different loading of CMC and soluble starch aqueous suspensions by casting method in the presence of plasticize containing glycerol. The effects of the CMC addition on the some physical properties of the resulted blend films were investigated. Tensile tests demonstrated positive re...

The present study designed and developed blood vessel substitutes (BVSs) composed of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) cryogels. The in vitro results demonstrated that the coating of the polymer with lyophilized decellularized vascular matrix (DVM) greatly enhanced the adhesion of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs). However, when PVA̸DVM BVSs were implanted into the abdominal aorta of Sprague...

The incorporation of a model protein, bovine serum albumin (BSA), into poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) hydrogel films during the freezing and thawing process and its subsequent release behavior were investigated. The effect of the number of freezing and thawing cycles as well as the stability of BSA were examined. BSA release profiles were not significantly different from gels prepared after 3 or 5 c...

AIMS Andersen-Tawil syndrome (ATS1)-associated ventricular arrhythmias are initiated by premature ventricular activity (PVA) resulting from diastolic Ca(2+) (Ca(D)) accumulation. We hypothesized that relatively high Na(+)-Ca(2+) exchanger (NCX) expression coupled with slower Ca(2+) uptake may constitute an arrhythmogenic substrate during drug-induced ATS1 (DI-ATS1). METHODS AND RESULTS DI-ATS...

Poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) of various molecular weight (MW=10,560-116,600) was successfully labeled with fluorescein isothiocyanate isomer I (FITC) according to the method of de Belder and Granath. A high-performance size-exclusion chromatographic procedure was developed for the quantitative analysis of FITC-labeled poly(vinyl alcohol) (F-PVA) in biological samples. F-PVA (80 K) disappeared slow...