Local release of tacrolimus from hydrogel-based drug delivery system is controlled by inflammatory enzymes in vivo and can be monitored non-invasively using in vivo imaging

• Dzhuliya Dzhonova,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department for BioMedical Research (DBMR), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5196-5417

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• Radu Olariu,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland

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• Jonathan Leckenby,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland

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• Ashish Dhayani,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Bangalore, India, The School of Chemical and Biotechnology, SASTRA University, Tamil Nadu, India

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• Praveen Kumar Vemula,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Bangalore, India

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• Jean-Christophe Prost,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Center of Laboratory Medicine, University Institute of Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital, Switzerland

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• Yara Banz,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Adriano Taddeo ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: adriano.taddeo@dbmr.unibe.ch (AT); robert.rieben@dbmr.unibe.ch (RR)

  Affiliations Department for BioMedical Research (DBMR), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3281-1548

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• Robert Rieben

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: adriano.taddeo@dbmr.unibe.ch (AT); robert.rieben@dbmr.unibe.ch (RR)

  Affiliation Department for BioMedical Research (DBMR), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4179-8891

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