{"id":2569,"date":"2017-10-03T09:03:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T09:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2017-10-03T09:04:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T09:04:14","slug":"novel-surgical-sealant-could-make-sutures-obsolete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2017\/10\/novel-surgical-sealant-could-make-sutures-obsolete\/","title":{"rendered":"Novel Surgical Sealant Could Make Sutures Obsolete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A new surgical glue is based on a proprietary polymer that demonstrates superior biocompatibility, tunable bioresorbability and adjustable tissue adherence.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2570 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/logo_gecko_10emeretourv2-150x150.png\" alt=\"logo_gecko_10emeretourv2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Gecko Biomedical (Paris, France) SETALUM Sealant is a hydrophobic light-activated adhesive (HLAA) designed for both wet and dynamic environments as an add-on to sutures during minimally invasive vascular surgery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Unique chemical and physical properties include high viscosity, hydrophobicity, and on demand curing. The adhesive, which is based on a mixture of easily metabolized glycerol and sebacic acid, can be brushed on a biological surface and set in seconds with a short application of ultraviolet (UV) light.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hospimedica.com\/novel-surgical-sealant-could-make-sutures-obsolete\/articles\/294770925\/novel-surgical-sealant-could-make-sutures-obsolete.html\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new surgical glue is based on a proprietary polymer that demonstrates superior biocompatibility, tunable bioresorbability and adjustable tissue adherence. The Gecko Biomedical (Paris, France) SETALUM Sealant is a hydrophobic light-activated adhesive (HLAA) designed for both wet and dynamic environments &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2017\/10\/novel-surgical-sealant-could-make-sutures-obsolete\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,79,178],"tags":[205,101,93],"class_list":["post-2569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-castor-oil-derivatives","category-castor-oil-polymers","category-sebacic-acid","tag-castor-oil-derivatives","tag-castor-polymers","tag-sebacic-acid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2572,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions\/2572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}