| CPC A61L 27/20 (2013.01) [A61L 27/12 (2013.01); A61L 2400/06 (2013.01); A61L 2400/18 (2013.01); A61L 2430/34 (2013.01)] | 18 Claims |
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1. A composition comprising a polysaccharide covalently bonded to particulate hydroxyapatite (HAp) pretreated with organofunctional silane,
wherein the particulate HAp pretreated with organofunctional silane comprises domains that are organofunctional silane treated and domains that are free of organofunctional silane and a polysaccharide covalently bonded to the domains that are organofunctional silane treated,
wherein the domains that are free of organofunctional silane are not covalently bonded to the polysaccharide, and
wherein chains of the polysaccharide are cross-linked by the particulate HAp pretreated with organofunctional silane.
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