Figure 6.

The degradation products of calcium alginate and photocrosslinked methacrylated alginate are non cytotoxic after 24 h of culture. Calcium alginate hydrogel degradation products (Ca-AA) (n = 3) and photocrosslinked methacrylated alginate (AA-MA) (n = 3) degradation products did not elicit a cytotoxic response, as compared to control HLF cells cultured in complete media on tissue culture plastic (n = 6). Maximum LDH release represent the LDH content detected after lysing cells after 48 h of culture (n = 3). Data are represented as mean ± standard deviation. *Statistically significant differences as compared to control with p < 0.05 considered significant