Temperature-Sensitive Polymersomes for Controlled Delivery of Anticancer Drugs

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 23, 2015, Pages 7945-7956

  Liu, Fei ^a   Kozlovskaya, Veronika ^a   Medipelli, Srikanth ^a   Xue, Bing ^a   Ahmad, Fahim ^b   Saeed, Mohammad ^b   Cropek, Donald ^c   Kharlampieva, Eugenia ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c U S ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIODEGRADABLE POLYMERS; BIODEGRADATION; BLOCK COPOLYMERS; DRUG PRODUCTS; LIPOSOMES; LIVING POLYMERIZATION; PHYSIOLOGY; STABILITY;

AMPHIPHILIC TRIBLOCK COPOLYMERS; CONTROLLED PERMEABILITY; LOWER CRITICAL SOLUTION TEMPERATURE; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; POLYDISPERSITY INDICES; STRUCTURAL STABILITIES; SUSTAINED DRUG RELEASE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE;

FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS;

EID: 84949668597     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b03048     Document Type: Article

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