Responsive polymeric delivery systems

Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews

Volumn 46, Issue 1-3, 2001, Pages 125-148

  Kost, Joseph ^a   Langer, Robert ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Controlled drug delivery; Controlled release; Environmentally sensitive polymer; Externally regulated drug delivery; Insulin delivery; Pulsatile drug delivery; Self regulated drug delivery

Indexed keywords

EXCIPIENT; POLYMER;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; HUMAN; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; EXCIPIENTS; HUMANS; POLYMERS;

EID: 0035287462     PISSN: 0169409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-409X(00)00136-8     Document Type: Article

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