pH/Thermo-Responsive Grafted Alginate-Based SiO2 Hybrid Nanocarrier/Hydrogel Drug Delivery Systems

ROS‐responsive drug delivery systems

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) play an important role in signal transduction and metabolism. Over-produced ROS in cells or tissues, however, often leads to oxidation stress that has implications in a series of diseases including cancer, aging, atherosclerosis and inflammation. Driven by the need for on-demand drug delivery and fuelled by recent development of ROS-responsive materials and nanomed...

Smart polymers for responsive drug-delivery systems.

The rapid advancement of biomedical research has led to many creative applications for biocompatible polymers. As modern medicine discerns more mechanisms, both of physiology and of pathophysiology, the approach to healing is to mimic, or if possible, to recreate the physiology of healthy functioning. Thus, the area of smart polymers for responsive drug delivery has evolved. The developments fa...

Alginate Polymers for Drug Delivery

Acknowledgements We would like to express our gratitude to everyone who advised and assisted with our research throughout our time at ENSIC. We sincerely appreciate their time and efforts. Abstract The goal of this project was to investigate the properties of alginate stabilized emulsions and their potential role for drug delivery. The polymer acts as a barrier between phases in oil-in-water em...

New drug delivery systems based on polymeric silk fibroin

Nowadays, design and synthesis of efficient drug delivery systems are of vital importance in order to optimize the efficacy of therapeutics and reducing side effects. So far, many drug delivery systems have been designed, among them, natural polymer-based systems have attracted the most attention. Silk fibroin (SF) as a natural polymer have several unique properties including excellent biocompa...

Alginate-Based Hybrid Aerogel Microparticles as New Carriers for Drug Delivery