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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biofouling. 2011 May;27(5):505–518. doi: 10.1080/08927014.2011.585711

Table 1.

Water contact angle of bare, dextranized and hyaluronized surfaces subjected to 1 h of adsorption. Protein concentrations were 20 µg ml−1.

Silicon Dextran NaHA
Solution 0.5h 4h Human Rooster Zoo
H20 0 40.4 ± 1.0 53.1 ± 1.4 21.9 ± 1.7 22.4 ± 1.6 22.6 ± 1.7
PBS 0 34.1 ± 3.4 47.2 ± 2.9 23.1 ± 1.6 21.9 ± 1.5 22.5 ± 1.6
PBS+Fg 64.7 ± 2.9 50.2 ± 1.3 56.5 ± 1.7 39.2 ± 1.8 39.6 ± 1.7 38.8 ± 1.8
PBS+BSA 68.9 ± 3.1 52.2 ± 2.2 57.9 ± 1.8 43.0 ± 1.8 41.3 ± 1.9 40.8 ± 1.7
PBS+BSA+Fg 69.5 ± 2.8 56.0 ± 3.0 61.7 ± 3.3 43.5 ± 2.2 41.8 ± 2.4 41.1 ± 2.6