Electrospun matrices for localized drug delivery: Current technologies and selected biomedical applications

European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-13

  Meinel, Anne J ^a   Germershaus, Oliver ^b   Luhmann, Tessa ^b   Merkle, Hans P ^a   Meinel, Lorenz ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomaterials; Drug delivery; Electrospinning; Nucleotide delivery; Post spinning modification; Protein

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; CHITOSAN; COLLAGEN; DICHLOROMETHANE; DOXORUBICIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GELATIN; GELATINASE B; HEPARIN; HYDROXYAPATITE; ITRACONAZOLE; KETANSERIN; MACROGOL; MELOXICAM; MESSENGER RNA; METOCLOPRAMIDE; ORNIDAZOLE; PACLITAXEL; PERLECAN; POLYCAPROLACTONE; POLYETHYLENEIMINE; POLYGLACTIN; POLYLACTIDE; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL; PROTEINASE K; SOMATOMEDIN C; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA3; UNINDEXED DRUG; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH INHIBITOR;

APOPTOSIS; BONE REGENERATION; CELL MIGRATION; CHEMOTHERAPY; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED DRUG RELEASE; CROSS LINKING; CRYSTALLIZATION; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG DIFFUSION; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG SOLUBILITY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROSPINNING; ENCAPSULATION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HYDROLYSIS; HYDROPHILICITY; IONIC STRENGTH; LAPAROTOMY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID TRANSPORT; PERITONEUM ADHESION; PH; REVIEW; SCHWANN CELL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURFACE TENSION; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE REGENERATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION; VISCOSITY; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; DRUG COMPOUNDING; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; NANOFIBERS; PARTICLE SIZE; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; TECHNOLOGY, PHARMACEUTICAL;

EID: 84861100674     PISSN: 09396411     EISSN: 18733441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpb.2012.01.016     Document Type: Review

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