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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 1995
Filed:
Feb. 07, 1994
Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
This invention provides a medical tool the surface of which is enabled to acquire lasting lubricity (low friction) by assuming a state wetted with bodily fluid or aqueous solution. This surface is formed without requiring the coating work to be repeated. The medical tool is produced by coating a water-swellable polymer having in the molecular unit thereof a reactive functional group capable of being reacted with a proton-donating group, on the surface of a matric material possessing the proton-donating group, and also by coating a water-swellable polymer having in the molecular unit thereof a reactive group capable of being reacted with an acid anhydride group on the surface of a matric material possessing the acid anhydride group.