Synthetic approaches to uniform polymers

Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews

Volumn 58, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 1671-1687

  Ali, Monzur ^a   Brocchini, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; MONOMERS; POLYPEPTIDES;

CHEMICAL CONSTITUTION; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS (DDS); SYNTHETIC POLYMERS; UNIFORM POLYMERS;

NATURAL POLYMERS;

DENDRIMER; MONOMER; POLY(N ISOPROPYLACRYLAMIDE); POLYACRYLIC ACID; POLYAMIDOAMINE; POLYAMINOACID; POLYHYDROXYALKANOIC ACID; POLYMER; POLYNUCLEOTIDE; POLYPEPTIDE; POLYSACCHARIDE;

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONFORMATION; DEVICE; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG FORMULATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MORPHOLOGY; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RING OPENING METATHESIS POLYMERIZATION;

EXCIPIENTS; FREE RADICALS; POLYMERS;

EID: 33751502402     PISSN: 0169409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.addr.2006.10.002     Document Type: Review

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