Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to A G Efimov.
Immobilization of antibiotics on the surface of electrolytically oxidated titanium was tried. Transfer of the immobilized ampicillin into hardly soluble calcium ampicillate resulted in providing the coating with antimicrobial activity for 5 days. The quantity of the immobilized antibiotic determined polarographically amounted to 6.4.10(-3) mol per 1 m2 of the surface.
A new electrolyte composition for preparing polyacrylamide coatings with immobilized glucose oxidase that contains glutaraldehyde as a component is proposed. The polarographic behaviour of glutaraldehyde at increased ZnCl2 concentrations answers the criterion of electrochemical polymerization. Glutaraldehyde improves cross-linkage within polyacrylamide, provides an increase of the coating mass and its better quality and adherence, as well as the covalent binding of the enzyme during electrochemical immobilization.