Water-soluble dendritic unimolecular micelles: Their potential as drug delivery agents

Journal of Controlled Release

Volumn 65, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 121-131

  Liu, Mingjun ^a   Kono, Kenji ^a   Fréchet, Jean M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Container, drug delivery; Dendrimers; Indomethacin; Sustained release; Unimolecular micelles

Indexed keywords

MACROGOL; PENTANOL; PHENOL DERIVATIVE;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG SOLUBILITY; HYDROPHILICITY; MICELLE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUSTAINED DRUG RELEASE;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; DRUG COMPOUNDING; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; HALF-LIFE; INDOMETHACIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MICELLES; PHARMACEUTIC AIDS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; SOLUBILITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET;

EID: 0033997598     PISSN: 01683659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-3659(99)00245-X     Document Type: Article

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