Designing Hydrogels for Controlled Drug Delivery

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Title

Designing Hydrogels for Controlled Drug Delivery

Subject

Pharmaceutical biotechnology
Pharmacy

Description

Hydrogels are interesting materials for pharmaceutical application and are particularly useful as drug delivery systems because they are biocompatible and nontoxic. They consist of three-dimensional, hydrophilic, and polymeric networks capable of absorbing large quantities of water or biological fluids in the presence of hydrophilic groups and releasing the drugs entrapped in them through slow diffusion. According to their features, they can be natural or synthetic and classified as neutral or ionic hydrogels, whereas the network can be composed of linear homopolymers, linear copolymers, and block or graft copolymers. Hydrogels provide a spatial and temporal control of various therapeutic agents, including both small molecules and macromolecular drugs. They possess modulable physical properties and the capability to protect labile drugs from degradation, controlling their release.

Creator

Sonia Trombino (Ed.)
Roberta Cassano (Ed.)

Source

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/pharmaceutics/special_issues/Hydrogels Drug_Delivery

Publisher

MDPI
St. Alban-Anlage 66
Basel, Switzerland

Date

2020

Contributor

Sonia Trombino
Roberta Cassano
J®F

Rights

CC BY-NC-ND

Format

Pdf

Language

English

Type

Textbooks

Identifier

ISBN 978-3-03928-356-9 (Pbk)
ISBN 978-3-03928-357-6 (PDF)

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