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61. Hickey AS, Peppas NA (1995) Mesh size and diffusive characteristics of semicrystalline poly
(vinyl alcohol) membranes prepared by freezing/thawing techniques. J Membr Sci
107:229–237
62. Li JK, Wang N, Wu XS (1998) Poly(vinyl alcohol) nanoparticles prepared by freezingthawing process for protein/peptide drug delivery. J Control Release 56:117–126
63. Gusev D, Lozinsky V, Vainerman E, Bakhmutov V (1990) Study of the frozen water poly
(vinyl alcohol) system by H-2 and C-13 nmr-spectroscopy. Magn Reson Chem 28:651–655
64. Lozinsky VI, Damshkaln LG, Kurochkin IN, Kurochkin II (2012) Study of cryostructuring of
polymer systems. 33. Effect of rate of chilling aqueous poly(vinyl alcohol) solutions during
their freezing on physicochemical properties and porous structure of resulting cryogels.
Colloid J 74:319–327
65. Kennedy KL, Lucas AR, Wan W (2011) Local delivery of therapeutics for percutaneous
coronary intervention. Curr Drug Deliv 8:534–556
66. Richardson J, Viswanathan K, Lucas A (2006) Serpins, the vasculature, and viral therapeutics. Front Biosci 11:1042–1056
67. Eichhorn S, Baillie C, Zafeiropoulos N, Mwaikambo L, Ansell M, Dufresne A, Entwistle K,
Herrera-Franco P, Escamilla G, Groom L et al (2001) Review: current international research
into cellulosic fibres and composites. J Mater Sci 36:2107–2131
68. Guhados G, Wan W, Hutter J (2005) Measurement of the elastic modulus of single bacterial
cellulose fibers using atomic force microscopy. Langmuir 21:6642–6646
69. Klemm D, Schumann D, Udhardt U, Marsch S (2001) Bacterial synthesized cellulose—
artificial blood vessels for microsurgery. Prog Polym Sci 26:1561–1603
70. Berglund L (2005) Cellulose-based nanocomposites. In: Mohanty AK, Misra M, Drzal LT
(eds) Natural fibers, biopolymers, and biocomposites. CRC, Boca Raton, FL, pp 819–842
71. Schoen F, Levy R (1999) Tissue heart valves: current challenges and future research
perspectives. J Biomed Mater Res 47:439–465
72. Fung YC (1993) Biomechanics: mechanical properties of living tissues, 2nd edn. Springer,
New York
73. Abe ´ H, Hayashi K, Sato M (1996) Data book on mechanical properties of living cells, tissues,
and organs. Springer, Tokyo
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Shinozaki N, Lagali N et al (2008) Recombinant human collagen for tissue engineered
corneal substitutes. Biomaterials 29:1147–1158
75. Zeng Y, Yang J, Huang K, Lee Z, Lee X (2001) A comparison of biomechanical properties
between human and porcine cornea. J Biomech 34:533–537
76. Dravida S, Gaddipati S, Griffith M, Merrett K, Madhira SL, Sangwan VS, Vemuganti GK
(2008) A biomimetic scaffold for culturing limbal stem cells: a promising alternative for
clinical transplantation. J Tissue Eng Regen Med 2:263–271
77. Chirila T, Hicks C, Dalton P, Vijayasekaran S, Lou X, Hong Y, Clayton A, Ziegelaar B,
Fitton J, Platten S et al (1998) Artificial cornea. Prog Polym Sci 23:447–473
78. Wang J, Gao C, Zhang Y, Wan Y (2010) Preparation and in vitro characterization of BC/PVA
hydrogel composite for its potential use as artificial cornea biomaterial. Mater Sci Eng C
Mater Biol Appl 30:214–218
79. Liu Y, Vrana NE, Cahill PA, McGuinness GB (2009) Physically crosslinked composite
hydrogels of PVA with natural macromolecules: structure, mechanical properties, and endothelial cell compatibility. J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater 90B:492–502
80. Vrana NE, Liu Y, McGuinness GB, Cahill PA (2008) Characterization of poly(vinyl alcohol)/
chitosan hydrogels as vascular tissue engineering scaffolds. Macromol Symp 269:106–110
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