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Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Biomed Eng. 2020 Dec 25;17:100260. doi: 10.1016/j.cobme.2020.100260

Figure 4.

Figure 4.

PLGA-Mg composite biomaterial neutral degradation. (A) Degradation profile of PLGA and PLGA containing 5wt% of Mg. (B) SEM image of 5% Mg:PLGA after 14 days immersed in Simulated Body Fluid (SBF), insert clearly show apatite crystal growth. (C) EDAX spectra of calcium apatite deposits on 5% Mg:PLGA after immersion in SBF (D) Alizarin red quantification of PLGA and Mg:PLGA samples after culture with MC3T3-E1 cells. Reproduced from Ref # with permission of IOP Publishing, copyright 2018 (14).