Click alginate cryogel for real-time gastric pH monitoring
Gastric acidity shapes mucosal injury in reflux disease, peptic ulcer, and gastritis, yet is almost never measured. Acid-suppressive therapy, taken by approximately 40% of elderly adults, is therefore titrated on symptoms alone. A gastric sensor must hold onto its reporter in a highly acidic protease-rich environment, conditions that destabilize ionically crosslinked hydrogels and leach…
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