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Hydrogel Nanoparticles in Drug Delivery
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Hydrogel nanoparticles have gained considerable attention in recent years as one of the most promising nanoparticulate drug delivery systems owing to their unique potentials via combining the characteristics of a hydrogel system with a nanoparticle, each with its own advantages and drawbacks.About:
This article is published in Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews.The article was published on 2008-12-14. It has received 1704 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Nanogel & Drug carrier.read more
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Nanoparticles and its biomedical applications in health and diseases: special focus on drug delivery.
Nuzhat Zahin,Raihanatul Anwar,Devesh Tewari,Md. Tanvir Kabir,Amin Sajid,Bijo Mathew,Md. Sahab Uddin,Lotfi Aleya,Mohamed M. Abdel-Daim +8 more
TL;DR: This review focuses on the detailed profile of NPs, its impact on biology and medicine, and their commercialization prospects.
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Nanostructured hyaluronic acid-based materials for active delivery to cancer
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Noncovalent encapsulation stabilities in supramolecular nanoassemblies.
TL;DR: A fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) based method is described to evaluate guest exchange dynamics in the aqueous phase to analyze the stability of encapsulation in polymeric nanogels and other related amphiphilic nanoassemblies.
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Material properties of biofilms—a review of methods for understanding permeability and mechanics
TL;DR: The reader is offered a guide to current technologies that can be utilized to specifically assess the permeability and mechanical properties of the biofilm matrix and its interacting components.
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Thermoresponsive polymers: insights into decisive hydrogel characteristics, mechanisms of gelation, and promising biomedical applications.
TL;DR: The main types of thermoresponsive polymers are reviewed, with special focus on decisive hydrogel characteristics, mechanisms of gelation, and biocompatibility, and promising biomedical applications are described.
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Environment-sensitive hydrogels for drug delivery
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TL;DR: Development of environmentally sensitive hydrogels with a wide array of desirable properties can be made is a formidable challenge, however, if the achievements of the past can be extrapolated into the future, it is highly likely that responsive hydrogelWith such properties can been made.
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TL;DR: The aim of this article is to present a concise review on the applications of hydrogels in the pharmaceutical field, hydrogel characterization and analysis of drug release from such devices.
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Long-Circulating and Target-Specific Nanoparticles: Theory to Practice
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