Balavigneswaran Karthikeyan

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What will happen in growth of preadipocytes when FBS is added with DMEM instead of NCS?

As the culturing protocol says, to grow the 3T3-L1 cells in DMEM in presence of calf serum (Newly born calf serum-NCS) and for the differentiation experiments, people suggest to use Fetal calf...

02 March 2016 1,327 3 View

How can I increase the hydrophobicity of the gelatin hydrogels/ scaffolds by that controlling the contact angle and swelling ratio ?

Gelatin hyrogels are hydrophillic so swelling ratio in PBS is more. I want to control the swelling ratio. How could I control that? How could I increase the hydrophobicity of Gelatin?

25 February 2016 812 4 View

Why has cyclic-RGD been used in tissue engineering studies?

Could someone explain why cyclic-RGD has been used for cell adhesion in tissue engineering studies? I could never find a linear RGD peptide that has been used for cell adhesion in tissue...

20 November 2014 3,505 5 View

Could someone explain which block (hydrophobic/hydrophillic) is playing a role in the synthesis of Block copolymer hydrogel?

There have been reports on PLA-b-PEG diblock or PEG-b-PLA-b-PEG and PLA-b-PEO hydrogels. In these cases the formation of gels is due to the effect of hydrophillic block (PEG/PEO) of the polymer or...

10 October 2014 9,728 3 View

Could someone tell the basics behind the spongy like polymeric materials?

I am planning to fabricate spongy like polymeric scaffold for tissue engineering applications. Is there any possibility to make spongy material with block copolymeric system?

23 September 2014 6,794 7 View