pH sensitive hydrogels in drug delivery: Brief history, properties, swelling, and release mechanism, material selection and applications

Polymers

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Rizwan, Muhammad ^a   Yahya, Rosiyah ^a   Hassan, Aziz ^a   Yar, Muhammad ^b   Azzahari, Ahmad Danial ^a   Selvanathan, Vidhya ^a   Sonsudin, Faridah ^a   Abouloula, Cheyma Naceur ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b COMSATS Institute of Information Technology   (Pakistan)

^c FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Biocompatible materials; Drug delivery applications; PH sensitive hydrogels; Swelling and drug release mechanism

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOMATERIALS; CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY; DRUG INTERACTIONS; HYDROGELS; PH SENSORS; SWELLING;

AQUEOUS SOLUBILITY; DRUG DELIVERY APPLICATIONS; DRUG RELEASE MECHANISM; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; MECHANISM OF ACTION; PH-SENSITIVE HYDROGEL; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; SELECTION OF MATERIALS;

TARGETED DRUG DELIVERY;

EID: 85018464279     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/polym9040137     Document Type: Review

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