The University of Texas System

Joo L Ong

Xiao-Dong Chen

Teja Guda

Neera Satsangi

Solaleh Miar

Gregory Robert Dion

Rajiv K Satsangi

Chih-ko Yeh

The present invention provides a mucoadhesive patch for attachment to a mucosal surface in a patient, the patch comprising a fibrous polymeric mat substrate and a plurality of polymeric flock particles that are attached to the substrate.

Mucoadhesive patch and uses thereof

A cell culture system including a silk fibroid scaffold, culture media, and salivary gland cells. The salivary gland cells grown in the tissue culture system have physiological and morphological features like those of in vivo salivary gland cells. The cell culture system can be used to produce a salivary tissue-specific extracellular matrix capable of inducing differentiation of salivary gland cell precursors into salivary gland cells.

Three-dimensional silk fibroin scaffold culture retaining functional salivary cells and promoting salivary tissue-specific ECM synthesis

Implants may be coated with a biocompatible coating to improve the biocompatibility of the implant. The biocompatible coating may include a bone growth promoting compound. Such compounds include, but are not limited to, phospholipids, bone morphogenetic proteins, or combinations thereof. The bone growth promoting compound may enhance the rate of bone growth proximate to the implant and the integration of the implant into the surrounding bone.

Implant coatings

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San Antonio, TX, United States of America

Joo L Ong