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Oxygen (hyperbaric and oxygen-releasing materials): uses in research

Also: hyperbaric oxygen, oxygen-generating biomaterials

Oxygen under pressure is used in hyperbaric medicine, and materials that slowly release oxygen are studied to keep cells alive in implants.

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lab biomedical 2012

Oxygen-generating materials for islets

Pedraza and colleagues used an oxygen-generating material to protect insulin-producing cells from low oxygen.

As reported in: Pedraza, Coronel, Fraker et al. (2012). Preventing hypoxia-induced cell death in beta cells and islets via hydrolytically activated, oxygen-generating biomaterials. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi:10.1073/pnas.1113560109

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review biomedical 2016

Oxygen-generating biomaterials review

Gholipourmalekabadi and colleagues reviewed oxygen-generating biomaterials for tissue engineering.

As reported in: Gholipourmalekabadi, Zhao, Harrison et al. (2016). Oxygen-Generating Biomaterials: A New, Viable Paradigm for Tissue Engineering?. Trends in Biotechnology. doi:10.1016/j.tibtech.2016.05.012

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