Fig 1.
SEM images of (a) silk fibroin hydrogel obtained by sonication method, (b) silk fibroin hydrogel obtained by vortex method, and (c) agarose hydrogel.
Fig 2.
FTIR results for (A) silk fibroin hydrogel from sonication method, vortex method, and silk fibroin solution, (B) agarose hydrogel, (C) Deconvoluted data.
Table 1.
Results of deconvoluted area of hidrogels.
Fig 3.
TGA and DTGA thermal analysis of hydrogels.
Fig 4.
Young’s modulus of samples after mechanical testing.
Error bars indicate standard deviations of triplicate measurements. Kruskal-Wallis test. **p<0.01.
Table 2.
Rheological analysis of hydrogels.
Fig 5.
Influence of hydrogels on HEK-293 cell density after an incubation period of 5 days, as determined by the MTT assay.
Error bars indicate standard deviations of quadruplicate measurements. Data were analyzed using two-way ANOVA followed by a post-hoc Tukey test.
Fig 6.
Influence of hydrogels on THP-1 cell density after an incubation period of 5 days, as determined by the MTT assay.
Error bars indicate standard deviations of quadruplicate measurements. Data were analyzed using two-way ANOVA followed by a post-hoc Tukey test.
Table 3.
Methods used in the literature to calculate Young’s modulus.