Suppression of platelet activity on microdomain surfaces of 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate-polyether block copolymers

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research
T OkanoY Sakurai

Abstract

Block copolymers constructed from chains of poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) (PHEMA) and either poly-ethyleneoxide (PEO) or poly-propyleneoxide (PPO) were synthesized. These block copolymers exhibited microdomain structure. Platelet adhesion on their surfaces was investigated by a column elution method to examine the effect of microdomain structure. The number of platelets adhered from whole blood was smaller for the block copolymer systems than for the homopolymers. Minimum points of platelet adhesion appeared at approximately 0.38 mol fraction of HEMA in the HEMA-PO system. Both block copolymer surfaces showed microdomains of alternate lamellar structure. Furthermore, the percent of platelets released from the column after incubation was investigated using PRP. In the case of homopolymers, released platelet percentages decreased with an increase of incubation time. Released platelet percentages from the block copolymers, however, were nearly constant with changing incubation time. These results show that HEMA-EO and HEMA-PO block copolymers had the ability to suppress both reversible and irreversible adhesion of platelets to their respective microdomain surfaces.

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