From: In vitro evaluation of novel antimicrobial coatings for surgical sutures using octenidine
a) Coating solutions | b) Resulting antimicrobial suture preparation | ||||||
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Coating type | Ratio of octenidine in fatty acid carrier | Drug weight (mg) | Fatty acid weight (mg) | Weight of octenidine (mg) | Weight of lauric or palmitic acid (mg) | Normalized drug weight (μg/cm) | |
octenidine-laurate | OL11 | 20 % | 79.0 | 316.0 | 0.44 | 1.76 | 11 |
octenidine-palmitate | OP11 | ||||||
octenidine-laurate | OL22 | 40 % | 158.0 | 237.0 | 0.88 | 1.32 | 22 |
octenidine-palmitate | OP22 | ||||||
octenidine-laurate | OL33 | 60 % | 237.0 | 158.0 | 1.32 | 0.88 | 33 |
octenidine-palmitate | OP33 |