The potential of silk and silk-like proteins as natural mucoadhesive biopolymers for controlled drug delivery

Frontiers in Chemistry

Volumn 3, Issue NOV, 2015, Pages

  Brooks, Amanda E ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregate silk; Biopolymers; Drug delivery; Mucoadhesive; Sericin; Silk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969508876     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2015.00065     Document Type: Short Survey

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