81 results about "Temperature-responsive polymer" patented technology

By using a bed material for cell culture having a surface composed of two domains of domain A coated with a temperature-responsive polymer and domain B composed of any one or a combination of a domain coated with a polymer having high affinity with cells, a domain coated with the temperature-responsive polymer in an amount different from the amount of the temperature-responsive polymer of domain A, and a domain coated with a polymer which responds to a temperature different from the temperature to which domain A responds, a method for the co-culture of a plurality of kinds of cells which has heretofore been difficult becomes possible.

The invention relates to a process for preparing temperature-responsive polymeric thin films which consists of, carrying out free radical polymerization reaction through surface triggering atom transition on smooth surfaces or rough surfaces with micrometer or nano structure, thus making the material surface have reversible soakage.

The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a cultured cell sheet that expresses phenotypes of the chondroid tissue. The problems can be solved by producing the cultured cell sheet in which cells are cultured on a surface of a cell culture support that is coated with a temperature responsive polymer having an upper or lower critical solution temperature ranging from 0° C. to 80° C. in water, including steps of: adjusting the temperature of the culture medium to a temperature below the lower critical solution temperature or above the upper critical solution temperature; bringing the cultured cell sheet in close contact with the carrier; and detaching the cultured cell sheet together with the carrier.

A temperature-responsive polymer and polymer material which has ester bond(s) and/or acid amide bond(s) respectively at one or more sites in the side chain and can be arbitrarily controlled by varying the side chain is provided. The process for production thereof and the use thereof are also provided.

The problem of the invention is to find a polymer mixture which forms an inter-polymer complex by being responsive to temperature even under neutral to alkaline conditions. According to the invention, a temperature responsive inter-polymer complex capable of showing thermal responsiveness in an aqueous solution, which contains a poly-N-acetylacrylamide or polyvinyl alcohol and polyethylene glycol, polyacrylamide or polymethacylamide, is applied to separating agents, immobilized enzymes, denatured protein modifiers, separation method or concentration of microorganisms, purification or concentration of nucleic acids, drug-releasing microcapsules and the like.

An anterior ocular segment related cell sheet or three-dimensional structure that have only a few structural defects as they have been recovered retaining the intercellular desmosome structure and the basement membrane-like protein between cell and substrate. The anterior ocular segment related cell sheet or three-dimensional structure is produced by a process comprising the steps of cultivating cells on a cell culture support comprising a substrate having its surface covered with a temperature responsive polymer having an upper or lower critical dissolution temperature of 0-80° C. with respect to water, optionally stratifying the layer of cultured cells by the usual method, and thereafter, (1) adjusting the temperature of the culture solution to either above the upper critical dissolution temperature or below the lower critical dissolution temperature, and further optionally (2) bringing the cultured anterior ocular segment related cell sheet or three-dimensional structure into close contact with a polymer membrane, and (3) detaching the sheet or three-dimensional structure together with the polymer membrane.

The invention provides a method for preparing a temperature-responsive adhesive injectable hydrogel. The method comprises the following steps: synthesizing a temperature-responsive polymer with different dopamine contents from dopamine methacrylamide used as an adhesive monomer and ethyl 2-(2-methoxyethoxy)methacrylate and oligo(ethylene glycol)methyl ether methacrylate as temperature-sensitive monomers, and carrying out enzyme catalytic crosslinking on the polymer and a dopamine group under the catalysis of horseradish peroxidase and hydrogen peroxide to prepare the temperature-responsive adhesive hydrogel. The hydrogel prepared in the invention has the characteristics of fastness in gel formation, realization of in-situ injection molding, realization of regulating the gelation time and the gel strength by regulating the concentrations of the polymer, horseradish peroxidase and hydrogen peroxide, and convenience in use; and the adhesion strength of the hydrogel is enhanced with the rising of the temperature, so the temperature-responsive characteristic makes the obtained hydrogel applied to fields of tissue adhesives, wound dressings, cell culture media and drug controlled releasecarriers.

Temperature sensitive, water soluble polymers are disclosed, together with a method for control the LCST of the polymer. The polymers include hydrophillic components and hydrophobic components joined by linking groups such as ester or amide groups wherein the hydrophilic components includes m ethylene oxide groups, the hydrophobic components consist of aliphatic groups such as n ethylenes and/or n cycloaliphatic groups, and where 1≦m≦30 and 1≦n≦30. Substrates bearing the grafted temperature responsive polymers also are disclosed. Microfluidic devices which include the temperature responsive polymers also are disclosed.

A cultured periodontal ligament cell sheet is produced by a process comprising culturing cells on a cell culture support composed of a base material whose surface is coated with a temperature-responsive polymer having an upper limit or lower limit critical dissolution temperature in water of 0 to 80° C. under specified conditions, (1) regulating the temperature of a culture fluid to the upper limit critical dissolution temperature or higher or to the lower limit critical temperature or lower, (2) allowing a cultured periodontal ligament cell sheet resulting from the culturing to adhere to a carrier and (3) detaching the sheet intact together with the carrier. This cultured periodontal ligament cell sheet has a syndesmotic microstructure, exhibits extremely high bioadherence to the dental root surface and realizes high density transplantation of target cells and positive reconstruction of periodontal tissues. Moreover, through lamination of cell sheets to be transplanted and donation of a three-dimensional polarity, highly efficient reconstruction of an adhesion apparatus can be accomplished and clinical application thereof to moderate periodontitis, severe peridontitis, gingival recession and the like is highly promising.

An object of the present invention is to provide a cell culture support making the detachment of a cell sheet easy as well as enabling the formation of a uniform cell sheet. The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a cell culture support having a temperature responsive polymer immobilized onto the surface thereof via covalent bonding, the method including a coating step in which a composition including a monomer that can form the polymer by polymerization by radiation irradiation, an organic solvent and, in some cases, a prepolymer formed by polymerization of the monomer is coated onto the substrate having a surface containing a material which can be covalently bonded to the temperature responsive polymer by radiation irradiation to form a film on the surface of the substrate, a radiation irradiation step in which a polymerization reaction and a binding reaction between the substrate surface and the temperature responsive polymer are allowed to proceed by irradiating radiation to the film, and a drying step to dry the film.

The invention discloses hydrogel system nano-scale phase change-based temperature-sensitive intelligent glass. The intelligent glass can produce a transition between a transparent appearance and an opaque appearance at a critical temperature. The intelligent glass is composed of glass sheets and temperature responsive hydrogel with an interpenetrating network structure, wherein the hydrogel is arranged between two of the glass sheets at least. The hydrogel is composed of a water-soluble cross-linked polymer network, temperature responsive polymers and water or inorganic salt aqueous solution, wherein the temperature responsive polymers run through the water-soluble cross-linked polymer network. The hydrogel can form a homogeneous system at a temperature below a critical temperature, and the temperature responsive polymers and the water-soluble cross-linked polymer network carry out a nano-scale phase separation at a temperature above the critical temperature. In the invention, temperature responsive polymers run through a cross-linked polymer network to form an interpenetrating network structure thus a molecular-scale uniform distribution is realized. Through a hydrogel system nano-scale phase change produced through a solubility change of temperature responsive polymers, a transition from a transparent appearance to an opaque appearance is realized, wherein the solubility change is produced when temperature changes.

To form a temperature-responsive surface for cell culture by simple processes, said temperature-responsive surface for cell culture being capable of efficiently culturing cells. Cultured cells or a cell sheet can be efficiently removed from the temperature-responsive surface for cell culture by merely changing the temperature of the substrate surface. To coat the substrate surface with a block copolymer, in which a water insoluble polymer segment is coupled with a temperature-responsive polymer segment, in an amount of 0.8 to 3.0 μg/cm² of the temperature-responsive polymer.

The invention discloses a galactosyl-based temperature-sensitive polymer hydrogel and a preparation method thereof. The hydrogel is a Poly (NIPAAm-co-GAC) copolymerized hydrogel. The preparation method comprises three steps of: (1) synthesizing an intermediate L-NH2 with an aminogalactose group; (2) synthesizing an intermediate monomer GAC with galactosyl group and double bonds; and (3) preparing the Poly (NIPAAm-co-GAC) copolymerized hydrogel by using the NIPAAm (N-isopropylacrylamide) and the intermediate monomer GAC. The hydrogel has good temperature response and biocompatibility, and has good identification effect on hepatocytes; and can be used as a matrix material in tissue engineering for promoting cell adhension and growth in cell culture, and the cells can be automatically detached due to the temperature sensitivity of the hydrogel.

A method for preparing comb structure temperature/pH-responsive polycarboxylic acid by end-group functionalization adopts temperature/pH-responsive monomer, unsaturated halogenated hydrocarbon, small monomer of carboxylic acid and other raw materials to prepare polycarboxylic acid material via self-polymerization, substitution and copolymerization. Temperature/pH-responsive monomers are first self-polymerized to obtain temperature/pH-responsive polymer chain with end-group functionalization, and then substitution with unsaturated halogenated hydrocarbons is conducted to obtain temperature/pH-responsive macromonomers with end-group functionalization, finally the obtained product is copolymerized with small carboxylic acid monomers to prepare comb structure polymer with polycarboxylic acid main chain and temperature/pH-responsive side chain.

A device for collecting water from atmospheric moisture comprises water absorbing material, a protection wall and a water container. The protection wall is in a porous form. The water absorbing material is made of the temperature responsive polymer with a phase separation temperature, including Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM), Poly(vinylphosphonate) and etc. when its temperature is below phase separation temperature, the temperature responsive polymer is in a swollen hydrated state, forming hydrogen bond with water molecules; so as to absorb water from the air. When its temperature is above said phase separation temperature, the temperature responsive polymer is in a shrunken dehydrated state, forming hydrogen bond with other temperature responsive polymer molecules; so as to expel the water to the water container.

The invention belongs to the fields of high polymer materials and biomedical engineering, and particularly relates to a method for preparing a temperature-sensitive stereocomplex polylactic acid copolymer drug-loaded micelle. The method includes the specific steps that poly L polylactic acid and poly D polylactic acid are bromized, and a temperature-sensitive polylactic acid segmented copolymer is obtained through atom transfer radical polymerization; then stereocomplex is performed, drugs are loaded, and thus a drug-loaded micelle which uses hydrophobic stereocomplex polylactic acid as the core and a hydrophilic chain temperature-sensitive polymer as the shell layer is formed. The nano drug-loaded micelle has the advantages of being compact in core structure, low in drug release speed, responsive to temperatures and the like; the stability of drug carriers can be improved easily, and drug release can be effectively controlled.

The objects of the present invention is to provide an infrared shielding film, a method for producing same, and an infrared shielding body provided with the infrared shielding film, whereby it is possible to maintain stable infrared shielding property, visible light transmittance, flexibility, and transparency over time. This infrared shielding film having at least one unit consisting of a high refractive index layer having metal oxide particles and a low refractive index layer on a substrate is achieved when (i) at least one layer of the high refractive index layer and the low refractive index layer contains a temperature responsive polymer as a binder component or (ii) the high refractive index layer has any one of a cellulose compound or polyvinyl acetal resin as a binder component, and the low refractive index layer contains a binder component different from that of the high refractive index layer.

The present invention relates to a method for isolating proteins from a solution containing the proteins. The invention also relates to a method for the chromatographic separation of proteins. The present invention also relates to crosslinked hydroxylic polymer particles functionalized with temperature-responsive copolymer, and to methods of preparing such particles.

The invention relates to the technical field of controlled release and target delivery of protein medicines, in particular to a temperature and enzyme responsive protein polymer conjugate, and a preparation method and an application of the conjugate. The temperature and enzyme responsive protein polymer conjugate comprises a protein medicine, and enzyme responsive polypeptide and a temperature responsive polymer that are sequentially coupled with the protein medicine. On the one hand, due to temperature responsivity of the protein polymer conjugate, a half life of the protein medicine is significantly prolonged, pharmacokinetic parameters are improved, and the conjugate has the significant advantages in improving drug metabolism performance; on the other hand, due to enzyme responsivity ofthe conjugate, tissue permeability and activity of the protein medicine are effectively improved after enzyme digestion release; the efficacy of the medicine is improved; toxic and side effects of the medicine are reduced; and the conjugate is applicable to administration of various pharmaceutical protein substances and treatment of diseases and has excellent popularization and application valuesand potentials.

There is provided a new aqueous temperature responsive delivery system made with a temperature responsive polymer and a bioadhesive which is intrinsically cationic. This system may also have an effective amount of a treating agent, which may be a medical or cosmetic agent. The bioadhesive, temperature responsive delivery system is useful in delivering moisturizers or pharmaceutically active agents to the user in controlled release manners, through the tissues in a body cavity.