Gunze Limited

Dow Corning Kabushiki Kaisha

Shigeo Ohi

Masakazu Suzuki

Yoshito Ikada

Shokyu Gen

Toru Yamamoto

Hiroyuki Kawashima

Yosuke Urabe

A suture comprising a core of at least one synthetic fiber filament yarns, and a covering layer formed of a plurality of silk strands and sheathing the core, the core and the covering layer having substantially the same elongation at break. The filament yarns have increased modulus of elasticity and increased breaking strength to thereby give the suture improved breaking strength and also have enhanced rigidity to render the suture highly amenable to the correction of its deformation and easier to handle.

Surgical suture

An artificial skin or bandage is formed from an elastomeric layer which is surfaced by a fibrous wound contacting layer which is first formed into a fabric and subsequently degraded by heat hydrolysis or other degradative treatment into a form which could no longer be formed into a fabric but which forms an ideal bioabsorbable wound contact surface in which damage to the newly formed, fragile epidermus is minimized.

Artificial skin

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Ayabe, Japan

Shigeo Ohi