Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) European Chapter Conference 2022

Session

PS29 Engineered viscoelasticity in cell and tissue engineering

PS29

Not scheduled

ICE Krakow

442. A comparison between the lubrication and mucoadhesion properties of hyaluronan and amphiphilic HA for ophthalmics

Huerta-Angeles, Gloria (CONTIPRO A.S. )

poster

High and low molecular weight hyaluronan (HA) are currently used as lubricants in several commercially available eye drops. However, the role of this polysaccharide on friction and lubrication on the eye is unknown as the current research mostly addresses joint cartilage.1 The lubrication function of HA is determined by its structure, e.g., size length of the chain, macromolecular...

443. ENGINEERING AND DESIGN OF BIOMIMETIC VISCOELASTIC HYDROGELS

Ahluwalia, Arti (University of Pisa)

poster

Introduction
Studies investigating cell response to substrate viscoelasticity are usually based on hydrogels where both viscous and elastic properties are altered at the same time [1-2], so the two effects cannot be decoupled. We engineered agarose-based hydrogels with a constant equilibrium elastic modulus and different characteristic relaxation times that can be modulated varying the liquid...