Polysaccharides Grafting on Fluorocarbon Films Deposited by Plasma on 316L Stainless Steel for Long Term Stable Stent
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Abstract
Metallic intravascular stents are medical scaffolds commonly used to heal diseased arteries and to restore blood flow in vessels after a balloon angioplasty. Although clinical complications occurs (mainly in-stent-restenosis, representing 30-40% of cases within six months after angioplasty), this clinical procedure reduces the risk of restenosis. In order to improve the long-term clinical performances of stents, different coatings, bioactives or not, are investigated. However, the adhesion of the coating within the substrate is often weak and delamination after stent deployment could be observed. Therefore, our approach was to consider a plasma fluorocarbon film deposit on stainless steel substrates, improving adhesion and providing protection against the stent corrosion, as a carrier for the subsequent grafting of a polysaccharide (dextran). Indeed, a copolymer made of dextran and metacrylate has already demonstrated interesting results toward cell proliferation and appropriate mechanical properties regarding stent deployment. Hence, the aim of this project is to covalently graft the copolymer of dextran-methacrylate to plasma-aminated fluorocarbon film. In this study, dextrans were functionalized in order to conjugate them to amino groups. Two different ways of functionalization were investigated: by carboxylmethylation reaction and by periodate oxidation. Characterizations were performed by FTIR, for organic syntheses and by XPS for the subsequent grafting on the surface. Coatings topography and stability were also investigated. Preliminary results suggest the use of polysaccharides grafted by plasma on fluorocarbon films to provide a stable stent surface.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".