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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biomaterials. 2012 Jun 27;33(27):6305–6312. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2012.05.053

Table 5.

Nitric oxide release from coatings doped at 18 mg/mL or 36 mg/mL MPTMS nano-particles with a HPU/TPU polyurethane topcoat.

NO release properties Nanoparticle concentration doped into polyurethane
18 mg/mL 36 mg/mL
[NO]max (pmol cm −2 s −1) 287.3 ± 19.7 383.9 ± 32.9
tmax (min) 9.0 ±1.6 9.1 ± 2.2
[NO] 6 h (pmol cm−2 s−1) 31.73 ± 2.23 73.51 ± 6.62
[NO]12 h (pmol cm−2 s−1) 14.2 ± 1.56 31.16 ± 2.91
[NO] 24h (pmol cm−2 s−1) 6.78 ± 0.62 12.58 ± 1.34
[NO] (pmol cm−2 s−1) 2.69 ± 0.34 5.18 ± 0.41
[NO] (pmol cm−2 s−1) 1.59 ± 0.12 1.67 ± 0.10
[NO]14 d (pmol cm−2 s−1) 1.06 ± 0.12 1.29 ± 0.13
Total NO (μmol cm −2) 5.1 ± 0.4 9.3 ± 0.6