A Hydrogel to Improve Recovery for Hand Transplants (2 of 2) (IMAGE)

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A Hydrogel to Improve Recovery for Hand Transplants (2 of 2)

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This is a graphic illustration of a transplanted hand that received drug encapsulated hydrogels as drug depot under the skin. The background shows the nanoarchitecture of the hydrogel. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the August 13, 2014, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by Dr. T. Gajanayake at Bern University Hospital, Inselspital in Bern, Switzerland, and colleagues was titled, 'A single localized dose of enzyme-responsive hydrogel improves long-term survival of a vascularized composite allograft.'

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Praveen Vemula

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