Diatoms: A biotemplating approach to fabricating drug delivery reservoirs

Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1687-1695

  Chao, Joshua T ^a   Biggs, Manus J P ^a   Pandit, Abhay S ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Biotemplating; Diatom; Frustule; Marine resources; Skeleton

Indexed keywords

GENTAMICIN; INDOMETACIN; MESALAZINE; NANOPARTICLE; PREDNISONE; DRUG CARRIER; WATER;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; DIATOM; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG RELEASE; HUMAN; NANOFABRICATION; REVIEW; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THALASSIOSIRA WEISSFLOGII; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY;

ANIMALS; DIATOMS; DRUG CARRIERS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; HUMANS; WATER;

EID: 84911483403     PISSN: 17425247     EISSN: 17447593     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/17425247.2014.935336     Document Type: Review

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