Thermosensitive self-assembling block copolymers as drug delivery systems

Polymers

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 779-811

  Bonacucina, Giulia ^a   Cespi, Marco ^a   Mencarelli, Giovanna ^a   Giorgioni, Gianfabio ^a   Palmieri, Giovanni Filippo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Block copolymers; Drug delivery; Self assembling; Sol gel; Thermogel

Indexed keywords

BODY TEMPERATURE; DELIVERY SYSTEMS; DIBLOCKS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG RELEASE; FORMING TEMPERATURE; HYDROPHILIC AND HYDROPHOBIC; IN-SITU; LABILE MOLECULES; LOW TOXICITY; MICELLAR AGGREGATES; MICELLAR STRUCTURES; MICELLE AGGREGATION; PEPTIDE DRUGS; POLY(ACRYLIC ACID ); POORLY SOLUBLE DRUGS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SELF-ASSEMBLING; SELF-ASSEMBLING BLOCK COPOLYMERS; SOL STATE; TARGET TISSUES; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; THERMO SENSITIVE; THERMOGEL; THERMOREVERSIBLE GELS;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DRUG DELIVERY; DRUG PRODUCTS; ETHERS; GELS; SOLS; TISSUE;

COPOLYMERIZATION;

EID: 79960161195     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/polym3020779     Document Type: Review

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