Fabrication and Characterization of a Novel Anticancer Drug Delivery System: Salecan/Poly(methacrylic acid) Semi-interpenetrating Polymer Network Hydrogel

ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1287-1299

  Qi, Xiaoliang ^a   Wei, Wei ^a   Li, Junjian ^a   Liu, Yucheng ^a   Hu, Xinyu ^a   Zhang, Jianfa ^a   Bi, Lirong ^b   Dong, Wei ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b THE FIRST HOSPITAL OF JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

doxorubicin; drug delivery; poly(methacrylic acid); Salecan; semi interpenetrating polymer network hydrogels

Indexed keywords

DOXORUBICIN; FREE RADICAL; N,N' METHYLENEBISACRYLAMIDE; POLYMER; POLYMETHACRYLIC ACID; POLYSACCHARIDE; SALECAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

A549 CELL LINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED DRUG RELEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COS 7 CELL LINE; CYTOTOXICITY; CYTOTOXICITY ASSAY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG RELEASE; FLOW KINETICS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HEPG2 CELL LINE; HYDROGEL; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INTERNALIZATION; MECHANICS; MORPHOLOGY; PH; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMOGRAVIMETRY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84969255762     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23739878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.5b00346     Document Type: Article

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