A keratin biomaterial gel hemostat deriv
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Tamer Aboushwareb; Daniel Eberli; Catherine Ward; Christopher Broda; John Holcom
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Article
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2008
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Effective hemostatic dressings that are compatible with tissues are needed. Keratins are a class of biomaterials that can be derived by extraction of proteins from human hair. We have recently discovered that keratin biomaterials have hemostatic characteristics and hypothesize that a ke