Prevention of adhesions post-abdominal surgery: Assessing the safety and efficacy of Chitogel with Deferiprone in a rat model

• Rajan Sundaresan Vediappan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rajan Sundaresan Vediappan, Catherine Bennett, Clare Cooksley, John Finnie, Markus Trochsler, Ahmed Bassiouni, Stephen Moratti, Alkis J. Psaltis, Guy Maddern, Sarah Vreugde, P. J. Wormald

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery—Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5370-8262

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• Catherine Bennett ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rajan Sundaresan Vediappan, Catherine Bennett, Clare Cooksley, John Finnie, Markus Trochsler, Ahmed Bassiouni, Stephen Moratti, Alkis J. Psaltis, Guy Maddern, Sarah Vreugde, P. J. Wormald

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery—Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

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• Clare Cooksley ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rajan Sundaresan Vediappan, Catherine Bennett, Clare Cooksley, John Finnie, Markus Trochsler, Ahmed Bassiouni, Stephen Moratti, Alkis J. Psaltis, Guy Maddern, Sarah Vreugde, P. J. Wormald

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery—Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

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• John Finnie ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rajan Sundaresan Vediappan, Catherine Bennett, Clare Cooksley, John Finnie, Markus Trochsler, Ahmed Bassiouni, Stephen Moratti, Alkis J. Psaltis, Guy Maddern, Sarah Vreugde, P. J. Wormald

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation SA Pathology and Adelaide Medical School, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

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• Markus Trochsler ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rajan Sundaresan Vediappan, Catherine Bennett, Clare Cooksley, John Finnie, Markus Trochsler, Ahmed Bassiouni, Stephen Moratti, Alkis J. Psaltis, Guy Maddern, Sarah Vreugde, P. J. Wormald

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

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• Ryan D. Quarrington ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Adelaide Spinal Research Group, Centre for Orthopaedic and Trauma Research, Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0633-2482

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• Claire F. Jones ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Adelaide Spinal Research Group, Centre for Orthopaedic and Trauma Research, Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

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• Ahmed Bassiouni ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rajan Sundaresan Vediappan, Catherine Bennett, Clare Cooksley, John Finnie, Markus Trochsler, Ahmed Bassiouni, Stephen Moratti, Alkis J. Psaltis, Guy Maddern, Sarah Vreugde, P. J. Wormald

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery—Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5545-0194

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• Stephen Moratti ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rajan Sundaresan Vediappan, Catherine Bennett, Clare Cooksley, John Finnie, Markus Trochsler, Ahmed Bassiouni, Stephen Moratti, Alkis J. Psaltis, Guy Maddern, Sarah Vreugde, P. J. Wormald

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand

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• Alkis J. Psaltis ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rajan Sundaresan Vediappan, Catherine Bennett, Clare Cooksley, John Finnie, Markus Trochsler, Ahmed Bassiouni, Stephen Moratti, Alkis J. Psaltis, Guy Maddern, Sarah Vreugde, P. J. Wormald

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery—Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

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• Guy Maddern ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rajan Sundaresan Vediappan, Catherine Bennett, Clare Cooksley, John Finnie, Markus Trochsler, Ahmed Bassiouni, Stephen Moratti, Alkis J. Psaltis, Guy Maddern, Sarah Vreugde, P. J. Wormald

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

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• Sarah Vreugde ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rajan Sundaresan Vediappan, Catherine Bennett, Clare Cooksley, John Finnie, Markus Trochsler, Ahmed Bassiouni, Stephen Moratti, Alkis J. Psaltis, Guy Maddern, Sarah Vreugde, P. J. Wormald

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery—Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

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• P. J. Wormald

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rajan Sundaresan Vediappan, Catherine Bennett, Clare Cooksley, John Finnie, Markus Trochsler, Ahmed Bassiouni, Stephen Moratti, Alkis J. Psaltis, Guy Maddern, Sarah Vreugde, P. J. Wormald

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: peterj.wormald@adelaide.edu.au

  Affiliation Department of Surgery—Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

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