Synthetic resins or natural rubbers -- part of the class 520 ser – Synthetic resins – Compositions to be polymerized by wave energy wherein said...
Patent
1997-10-10
2000-09-19
Nutter, Nathan M.
Synthetic resins or natural rubbers -- part of the class 520 ser
Synthetic resins
Compositions to be polymerized by wave energy wherein said...
522 85, 424426, 424443, 424444, 424445, 128898, 525 541, 527202, C08K 100, A61F 200
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DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to methods and compositions for improving the adherence of polymer gels to surfaces, especially tissue surfaces; devices for applying the compositions and gels; and general methods for sealing surfaces with gels for therapeutic benefit.
Locally polymerized gels have been used as barriers and drug delivery devices for several medical conditions. Adherence of the formed gel to the tissue can be a problem, especially under surgical conditions, where the tissue surface to be treated is typically wet, and may further be covered with blood, mucus or other secretions. Hubbell and co-workers have described two methods for photopolymerizing gels in contact with tissue surfaces. In U.S. Pat. No. 5,410,016, hereby incorporated by reference, application of biodegradable macromers to tissue, followed by photopolymerization to form a gel, is described. Two methods for photopolymerizing gels are described. In "bulk" polymerization, a suitable photoinitiator and accessory reagents are solubilized or dispersed in a solution of gelling macromers. On application of light, the entire solution volume crosslinks to form a gel which acts as a local barrier or drug depot. These gels have substantial adherence to most surfaces, including tissue surfaces which are merely moist. However, if a confounding layer of fluid is present on the surface when the macromer/initiator solution is applied, then the gel may delaminate from the surface after its formation.
An alternative way of form a gel layer on a surface, as also described in U.S. Ser. No. 08/024,657, which is hereby incorporated by reference, is called the "interfacial" method. In this method, the surface to be coated is treated with a photoinitiator which adsorbs or absorbs to the surface. After washing away excess, unabsorbed photoinitiator, a polymerizable macromer solution is applied to the surface. On exposure to light, polymerization is initiated at the surface, and progresses outward into the solution to the limit of diffusion of the photoinitiator-generated radicals during their lifespan. Coating thicknesses of up to about 500 micrometers (microns) are routinely obtained. Since they are in effect "grown" from the tissue surface, such gel layers have excellent adhesion to the tissue surface under difficult conditions, including the presence of thin layers of fluid adherent to the surface. The limited thickness of such interfacial gels is desirable in some circumstances, but represents a major limitation where gels of substantially greater thickness than 500 microns are required, for example, for use in drug delivery, or in forming an effective barrier between the tissue surface and its surroundings.
In addition to the photopolymerizable gels described by Hubbell et al (WO 93/17669) and Sawhney et al, (J. Biomed. Mats. Res. 28, 831-838, 1994), systems for forming drug delivery depots or barriers on surfaces include the polymers described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,938,763 to Dunn, et al., U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,100,992 and 4,826,945 to Cohn et al, U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,741,872 and 5,160,745 to De Luca et al, and U.S. Pat. No. 4,511,478 to Nowinski et al. Use of preformed barrier materials such as Goretex.TM. membrane (W. L.Gore) has been described in the literature.
Although all of these materials are suitable for application to tissue and other substrates, adhesion is in many cases limited, or in the case of the preformed barrier materials, essentially non-existent.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide methods and compositions for enhancing the adhesion of polymeric materials to tissue surfaces and other substrates.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide methods and compositions for increasing the thicknesses of polymeric materials which can be "tethered" to a tissue surface or other substrates.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide improved initiator systems for the formation of gels on tissues and other surfaces.
It is a further object of the present invention to p
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Avila Luis Z.
Barman Shikha P.
Bromander Thomas S.
Coury Arthur J.
Elbert Donald L.
Board of Regents , The University of Texas System
Focal, Inc.
Nutter Nathan M.
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