Sprayable asymmetric hydrogel prevents postoperative pleural adhesions via physical and biological dual therapy
Ni Li, Zherui Shao, Nuo Cheng, Yongbin Wang, Bin Wu, Bingchuan Hu, Qinning Wang, Yanggang Dan, Yuwei Zhou, Kanghao Zhu, Renyuan Xiao, Caoyun Ju, Cong Wang, Dawei Zheng · 2026
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Description
Ni Li and colleagues describe a 2026 material designed to stop pleural adhesions, the fibrous bands that can form after chest surgery. Adhesions cause chronic pain, stiff lungs, and risky repeat operations. Existing barrier sheets stick poorly to wet tissue and carry no active drugs.
Their product starts as a powder that turns into an asymmetric glue-like hydrogel within twenty seconds of touching body fluids. The gel seals tissue, stops bleeding, kills bacteria, and mops up harmful oxygen radicals. Embedded fatty bubbles slowly release two agents, a small RNA and simvastatin, that together damp the fibrosis-inflammation cycle. In rats with pleural injury, treated animals developed far fewer adhesions and healed better than untreated ones.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ni Li, Zherui Shao, Nuo Cheng, Yongbin Wang, Bin Wu, Bingchuan Hu, Qinning Wang, Yanggang Dan, Yuwei Zhou, Kanghao Zhu, Renyuan Xiao, Caoyun Ju, Cong Wang, Dawei Zheng |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 90 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |