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Drug carrier
About: Drug carrier is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 18276 publications have been published within this topic receiving 997718 citations. The topic is also known as: drug carriers & drug vehicle.
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TL;DR: The objective of this review is to provide the reader with a brief description of the most relevant techniques used to assess qualitatively or quantitatively PEG chain coverage-density, conformation and layer thickness on polymeric nanoparticles.
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TL;DR: Conjugating biomolecules with polyethylene glycol (PEG), a process known as pegylation, is now an established method for increasing the circulating half-life of protein and liposomal pharmaceuticals.
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TL;DR: The results illustrate the usefulness of guar gum as a potential carrier for colon-specific drug delivery and reveal that the use of 4% w/v of rat caecal contents in PBS, obtained after 7 days of enzyme induction provide the best conditions for in vitro evaluation of Guar gum.
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TL;DR: Variation of the feed weight ratio of MePEG to caprolactone resulted in the synthesis of copolymers with predictable block lengths, and the aqueous solubilities of the model hydrophobic drugs, indomethacin, curcumin, plumbagin, paclitaxel, and etoposide were increased by encapsulation within the micelles.
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TL;DR: The prosperous future of drug delivery systems depends on whether new delivery systems can overcome limits set by human physiology, and the development process can be accelerated with new ways of thinking.
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