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. 2018 Oct 22;6:499. doi: 10.3389/fchem.2018.00499

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The influence of hydrogel self-healing and degradation on cell functions: (A) Self-healing hydrogel formed by crosslinking of benzaldehydes at both ends of difunctionalized PEG (DF-PEG) with glycol chitosan (i). The expressions of neuronal-related genes (nestin, β-tubulin, and Map2) of cells after 3 and 7 days of culture in 3D gels, *p < 0.05 (ii). Reproduced with the permission from Tseng et al. (2015), Copyright © 2013, John Wiley and Sons. (B) (i) Schematic of sequential crosslinking of MeMaHA using a primary addition and secondary radical polymerization to create -UV and D0 UV hydrogels. (ii) Percentage of hMSCs toward osteogenic or adipogenic differentiation in -UV or D0 UV hydrogels (#p < 0:005, t-test). Reproduced with the permission from Khetan et al. (2013), Copyright © 2013, Springer Nature.