title: Preparation of elastic silk sericin hydrogel.
abstract: This paper reports a preparation method for silk sericin hydrogel using the Sericin-hope silkworm, whose cocoons consist almost exclusively of sericin. Sericin solution, prepared from Sericin-hope cocoons, contains intact sericin and forms elastic hydrogels with the addition of ethanol. The sericin hydrogel can be prepared without crosslinking by chemicals or irradiation and might be usable as a naturally occurring biomaterial.
authors.affiliation: New Silk Materials Laboratory, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Nagano 394-0021, Japan. teramoto@nias.affrc.go.jp
authors.forename: Hidetoshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Teramoto
authors.forename: Ken-ichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakajima
authors.forename: Chiyuki
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Takabayashi
mesh_terms: D000577:Amides / Q000737:chemistry; D000818:Animals; D012831:Bombyx / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D004548:Elasticity; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D000431:Ethanol / Q000494:pharmacology; D006358:Hot Temperature; D020100:Hydrogels / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry*; D047030:Sericins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012996:Solutions / Q000737:chemistry; D017550:Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared
chemical_list: D000577:Amides; D020100:Hydrogels; D047030:Sericins; D012996:Solutions; D000431:Ethanol