The role of scanning probe microscopy in drug delivery research

Critical Reviews in Therapeutic Drug Carrier Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 225-256

  Shakesheff, Kevin M ^a   Davies, Martyn C ^a   Roberts, Clive J ^a   Tendler, Saul J B ^a   Williams, Philip M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

atomic force microscopy; biodegradable polymers; drug targeting; microparticles; scanning tunneling microscopy

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; DNA; FIBRINOGEN; MACROGOL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; POLY(3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID); POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); POLYETHYLENE; POLYLACTIC ACID; POLYMER; POLYPROPYLENE; POLYSTYRENE; PROTEIN; SEBACIC ACID;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIODEGRADATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COLLOID; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; EROSION; FORCE; MORPHOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 0030456945     PISSN: 07434863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/CritRevTherDrugCarrierSyst.v13.i3-4.20     Document Type: Article

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