Research Article
In Vitro-In Vivo Correlation for the Degradation of Tetra-PEG Hydrogel Microspheres with Tunable β-Eliminative Crosslink Cleavage Rates
Figure 5
Injections of microspheres in the rat. (a) Temporal sequence of eight injections of microspheres in the rat spaced in intervals of approximately ; C is an untreated control site for background fluorescence determination. (b) Photograph of tattoo-marked SC injection sites labeled 1, 3, 5, and 7 at termination of the experiment where 1 is the oldest injection with almost completely degraded microspheres and 7 is the newest injection with fully intact microspheres. Tattoo circles are approximately 12 mm in diameter.
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