Biomedical applications of polymers derived by reversible addition - fragmentation chain-transfer (RAFT)

Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews

Volumn 91, Issue , 2015, Pages 141-152

  Fairbanks, Benjamin D ^a,b   Gunatillake, Pathiraja A ^a   Meagher, Laurence ^a,c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biomedical applications; Drug delivery; Radical polymerization; RAFT; Reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY; DRUG DELIVERY; FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; POLYMERIZATION; TARGETED DRUG DELIVERY; TOXICITY;

AMPHIPHILIC BLOCK COPOLYMERS; BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; DRUG-DELIVERY RESEARCH; RAFT; RAFT-MEDIATED POLYMERIZATION; REVERSIBLE ADDITION FRAGMENTATION CHAIN TRANSFER; SELF ASSEMBLED STRUCTURES; THERAPEUTIC COMPOUNDS;

FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS;

2,2' AZOBIS[2 (2 IMIDAZOLIN 2 YL)PROPANE]DIHYDROCHLORIDE; ACRYLAMIDE; BENZOIC ACID; BUTYL METHACRYLATE; CARBONIC ACID; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; DIMETHYLACRYLAMIDE; DIMETHYLAMINOETHYL METHACRYLATE; DIPYRIDAMOLE; DITHIOBENZOATE; ETHYLENE OXIDE; MACROGOL; N ISOPROPYLACRYLAMIDE; POLY(ETHYLENIMINE); POLYACRYLAMIDE; POLYMER; POLYMETHACRYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PROPYLACRYLIC ACID; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; THIAZOLIDINE 2 THIONE; TRITHIOCARBONATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BIOMATERIAL; THIOKETONE; TRITHIOCARBONIC ACID;

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONJUGATION; CYCLOADDITION; CYTOTOXICITY TEST; DNA DEGRADATION; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; GENE SILENCING; GRAFTING; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSIBLE ADDITION FRAGMENTATION CHAIN TRANSFER; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYMERIZATION; POLYMERS; THIONES;

EID: 84940959957     PISSN: 0169409X     EISSN: 18728294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.addr.2015.05.016     Document Type: Review

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