General description: Polyethylene glycol (PEG) is a polyether compound that is used as an additive in cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and food. It consists of repeated ethylene glycol units[-(CH2CH2O)n].
Application: Poly(ethylene glycol) has been used: as a component of University of Wisconsin (UW) cold preservation solutions to stabilize the cell membrane of hepatocytes during temperature changes as a component of the supercooling solution to study supercooling preservation technique of the rat liver for transplantation and to protect against hypothermic injury to prepare aqueous phase for the fabrication of multicellular spheroid (MCS) cultures
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5.Idalis Villanueva,Courtney A Weigel,Stephanie J Bryant. (2009-06-11) Cell-matrix interactions and dynamic mechanical loading influence chondrocyte gene expression and bioactivity in PEG-RGD hydrogels.. Acta biomaterialia, 5 ((8)):(2832-2846). [PMID:19508905]
6.Wontae Lee,Nikita Kalashnikov,Stephanie Mok,Ruba Halaoui,Elena Kuzmin,Andrew J Putnam,Shuichi Takayama,Morag Park,Luke McCaffrey,Ruogang Zhao,Richard L Leask,Christopher Moraes. (2019-01-13) Dispersible hydrogel force sensors reveal patterns of solid mechanical stress in multicellular spheroid cultures.. Nature communications, 10 ((1)):(144-144). [PMID:30635553]
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