 Polyvinyl Alcohol
"Polyvinyl Alcohol" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A polymer prepared from polyvinyl acetates by replacement of the acetate groups with hydroxyl groups. It is used as a pharmaceutic aid and ophthalmic lubricant as well as in the manufacture of surface coatings artificial sponges, cosmetics, and other products.
| Descriptor ID |
D011142
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.033.750 D02.455.326.271.884.533.532 D05.750.716.721.616 D25.720.716.721.616 J01.637.051.720.716.721.616
|
| Concept/Terms |
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Polyvinyl Alcohol".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Polyvinyl Alcohol".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Polyvinyl Alcohol" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Polyvinyl Alcohol" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
To return to the timeline, click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Polyvinyl Alcohol" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
-
Oh GW, Kim SC, Cho KJ, Ko SC, Lee JM, Yim MJ, Kim KW, Kim HS, Kim JY, Lee DS, Heo SY, Kim YM, Jung WK. Poly(vinyl alcohol)/chitosan hydrogel incorporating chitooligosaccharide-gentisic acid conjugate with antioxidant and antibacterial properties as a potential wound dressing. Int J Biol Macromol. 2024 Jan; 255:128047.
-
Chandika P, Kim MS, Khan F, Kim YM, Heo SY, Oh GW, Kim NG, Jung WK. Wound healing properties of triple cross-linked poly (vinyl alcohol)/methacrylate kappa-carrageenan/chitooligosaccharide hydrogel. Carbohydr Polym. 2021 Oct 01; 269:118272.
-
Hanak BW, Haussen DC, Ambekar S, Ferreira M, Ghodke BV, Peterson EC. Preoperative embolization of intracranial hemangiopericytomas: case series and introduction of the transtumoral embolization technique. J Neurointerv Surg. 2016 Oct; 8(10):1084-94.
|
People  People who have written about this concept. _
Similar Concepts
People who have written about this concept.
_
Top Journals
Top journals in which articles about this concept have been published.
|