Biomimetic Materials as Potential Medical Adhesives – Composition and Adhesive Properties of the Material Coating the Cuvierian Tubules Expelled by Holothuria dofleinii

摘要: Novel, distinct adhesive systems have been described for a wide range of marine species (Kamino, 2008). These highly effective, natural materials provide link between biological science and material science, can serve as models on which new, bioinspired synthetic could be based. various developed independently, many occasions, opportunities the development biologically-inspired adhesives. The adhesives include, example, mussel (Mytilus sp.) (Lin et al., 2007), barnacle (Nakano 2007) stickleback (Jones 2001) adhesives, are protein-based, well sponge, certain algal bacterial (Mancuso-Nichols 2009) that polysaccharide-based. In present paper, we examine system found associated with Cuvierian tubules holothurian (sea cucumber), Holothuria dofleinii. This is an example particularly rapid surface when they expelled (DeMoor 2003; Muller 1972; VandenSpiegel & Jangoux, 1987). unique nature this system, especially its action under water, has suggested if mechanism understood, then it may prove to possible mimic through biotechnology and/or chemistry. An functions readily in aqueous environment would valuable, medical applications, majority existing bind dry surfaces more strongly than same wet. host defence holothurians (Lawrence, 2001; It long known that, expulsion, fill liquid lengthen, become sticky rapidly