Lessons from nature: Stimuli-responsive polymers and their biomedical applications

Trends in Biotechnology

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 305-311

  Jeong, Byeongmoon ^a   Gutowska, Anna ^b  

^a Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; POLYMER; PROTEIN; COPOLYMER; MACROGOL; POLOXAMER; POLY(ETHYLENE GLYCOL) B (LACTIC ACID CO GLYCOLIC ACID) B ETHYLENE GLYCOL COPOLYMER; POLY(METHACRYLIC ACID CO ETHACRYLIC ACID) COPOLYMER; POLY(N ISOPROPYLACRYLAMIDE); POLYACRYLIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HYDROGEL; LIGHT; PH; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TEMPERATURE; TRANSDUCER; BIOSENSOR; BIOSEPARATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; KINETICS; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITION; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMODYNAMICS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETICS; HYDROGELS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LIGHT; MODELS, MOLECULAR; POLYMERS; PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TEMPERATURE; TRANSDUCERS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ELECTRIC FIELDS; IONIC STRENGTH; LIGHT; PH; POLYMERS; SOL-GELS; TOPOLOGY;

POLYMER COMPOSITION;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; POLYMER;

EID: 0036629185     PISSN: 01677799     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7799(02)01962-5     Document Type: Review

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