Recobrimento de superficies de PVC com filmes de Langmuir-Blodgett usando fosfatidiletanolamina

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1999

RESUMO

Biomaterials have becoming important in modern medicine. However, their applications are limited by the adverse reactions that occur when the foreign surfaces contact blood. An alternative approach to reduce adverse reactions and to increase the hemocompatibility concerns to the mimicry of biologically inert interfaces,such as the external membrane surfaces of erythrocytes and platelets. These surfaces are composed by the zwitterionics phospholipids phosphatidylcholine (PC), phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) and sphingomyelin. Based on these concepts, in this work was studied the coating of commercial polyvinylchloride (PVC) surfaces with the pure phospholipids dimyristoylphosphatidylethanolamine (DMPE) and dipalmitoylphosphatidylethanolamine (DPPE) and with mixtures of DMPE with dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) and functionalized with polyethylene glycol (PEG), by Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) processo The coating was characterized by dynamic contact angle in air-water systems, fibrin time and atomic force microscopy. The experimental results showed that the PVC plates were covered with pure phospholipids and with their mixtures, and that there is a good relationship among the characterization methods. In the majority of the situations, the covered s_es became more hydrophobic and presented enhanced hemocompatibility. The covering is dependent on the phospholipid composition and the operational variables of the processo These results are important to improve the performance of PVC in medical devices and in extracorporeal circuits

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filmes finos multifolhados cloreto de vinila lipidios biocompatibilidade

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