Peptide-based and polypeptide-based hydrogels for drug delivery and tissue engineering

Topics in Current Chemistry

Volumn 310, Issue , 2012, Pages 135-167

  Altunbas, Aysegul ^a   Pochan, Darrin J ^a  

^a DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomaterial; Drug delivery; Hydrogel; Peptide; Polypeptide; Self assembly; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BIOMATERIAL; DRUG CARRIER; ELASTIN; PEPTIDE; SURFACTANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DELAYED RELEASE FORMULATION; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; DELAYED-ACTION PREPARATIONS; DRUG CARRIERS; ELASTIN; HUMANS; HYDROGELS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84856168201     PISSN: 03401022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/128_2011_206     Document Type: Article

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