A review on comb-shaped amphiphilic polymers for hydrophobic drug solubilization

Therapeutic Delivery

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 59-79

  Hoskins, Clare ^a   Thoo Lin, Paul Kong ^b   Cheng, Woei Ping ^c  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOPHILE; CALCITONIN; CAMPTOTHECIN; CHITOSAN; COMB SHAPED AMPHIPHILIC POLYMER; COPOLYMER; CYCLOSPORIN A; DANSYL CHLORIDE; DEXTRAN; DOXORUBICIN; GEMCITABINE; GRISEOFULVIN; HYDROXYPROPYLMETHYLCELLULOSE; MACROGOL; NAPHTHALENE; PACLITAXEL; POLYALLYLAMINE; POLYCAPROLACTONE; POLYETHYLENEIMINE; POLYLYSINE; POLYMER; PULLULAN; PYRENE; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRITICAL MICELLE CONCENTRATION; DILUTION; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG ACCUMULATION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG PENETRATION; DRUG SOLUBILITY; DRUG STABILITY; ENCAPSULATION; GENE THERAPY; HUMAN; HYDROPHOBICITY; IC 50; MAXIMUM PLASMA CONCENTRATION; MICELLE; MICELLIZATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OSTEOPOROSIS; PAGET BONE DISEASE; PANCREAS CANCER; PH; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEREOCHEMISTRY; T CELL LYMPHOMA;

EID: 84155175847     PISSN: 20415990     EISSN: 20416008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4155/tde.11.130     Document Type: Review

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