Controlled delivery of therapeutics from microporous membranes. II. In vitro degradation and release of heparin-loaded poly(D,L-lactide-coglycolide)

Biomaterials

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 1645-1651

  Kreitz, Mark R ^a   Domm, Jennifer A ^a   Mathiowitz, Edith ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Degradation; Heparin; Poly(D,L lactide co glycolide) microspheres

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROLYSIS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; POLYURETHANES;

HEPARIN; POLYLACTIDES;

POLYSACCHARIDES;

HEPARIN; MICROSPHERE; POLYGLACTIN; POLYURETHAN;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DEGRADATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROLYSIS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

ANTICOAGULANTS; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; DELAYED-ACTION PREPARATIONS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; HEPARIN; LACTIC ACID; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSPHERES; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID; POLYMERS; POROSITY; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS;

EID: 0031412386     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0142-9612(97)00106-3     Document Type: Article

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