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Surface Chemistry and Polymer Film Thickness Effects on Endothelial Cell Adhesion and Proliferation by Dhiman Bhattacharyya; Hao Xu; Rajendra R. Deshmukh; Richard B. Timmons; Kytai T. Nguyen is a Engineering article available to read on EtoBox.
## Abstract Adherence and growth rates of human aortic endothelial cells (HAEC) on plasma polymerized poly(vinylacetic acid) films were measured as functions of the surface density of COOH groups and plasma deposited film thickness. Pulsed plasma polymerization was employed to produce films containing 3.6 to 9% COOH groups, expressed as a percent of total carbon content. Endothelial cells exhibited increased cell adherence and proliferation with increasing COOH surface densities. Additionally, and unexpectedly, cell growth was also dependent on the film thicknesses, which ranged from 25 to 200 nm. The results indicate that optimization of the functional group surface density and film thickness could produce significant enhancements in initial adhesion and subsequent growth of the HAEC cells. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biomed Mater Res Part A, 2010
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- Author
- Dhiman Bhattacharyya; Hao Xu; Rajendra R. Deshmukh; Richard B. Timmons; Kytai T. Nguyen
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 1549-3296)
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Engineering (Physical Sciences)