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Title
Designing Hydrogels for Controlled Drug Delivery
Subject
Pharmaceutical biotechnology
Pharmacy
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.)
Roberta Cassano (Ed.)
Source
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/pharmaceutics/special_issues/Hydrogels Drug_Delivery
Publisher
MDPI
St. Alban-Anlage 66
Basel, Switzerland
St. Alban-Anlage 66
Basel, Switzerland
Date
2020
Contributor
Sonia Trombino
Roberta Cassano
J®F
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)
ISBN 978-3-03928-357-6 (PDF)