Rationale for Use . Corticosteroids decrease brain edema. In central nervous system tumors, corticosteroids have been found not only to reduce peritumoral and vasogenic brain edema, but also ...

In this paper, we developed several kinds of ordered structures in hydrogels with different geometries and sizes by harnessing heterogeneous swelling induced mechanical instability, i.e., surface ...

Equilibrium swelling is a feasible and simple experiment to determine the cross-link density of networks. It is the most popular and useful approach; however, in most of the cases, the given values ...