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Biodegradable Hydrogels for Drug Delivery [Hardcover]

Haesun Park (Author), Kinam Park (Author), Waleed S.W. Shalaby (Author)

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ISBN-10: 1566760046 | ISBN-13: 978-1566760041 | Publication Date: May 17, 1993 | Edition: 1

From the Authors' Preface
The advances made in the area of controlled drug delivery during the last two decades are remarkable ….Of the many polymeric materials, biodegradable hydrogels present unique advantages and opportunities in the development of …delivery devices….We have undertaken the challenge of putting together information relevant to biodegradable hydrogels in one place. This book covers the mechanisms of biodegradation, types of biodegradable hydrogels,chemical and physical gels, chemical and enzymatic degradation, and examples of biodegradable drug delivery systems.

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The advances made in the area of controlled drug delivery during the last two decades are remarkable ….Of the many polymeric materials, biodegradable hydrogels present unique advantages and opportunities in the development of …delivery devices….We have undertaken the challenge of putting together information relevant to biodegradable hydrogels in one place. This book covers the mechanisms of biodegradation, types of biodegradable hydrogels,chemical and physical gels, chemical and enzymatic degradation, and examples of biodegradable drug delivery systems.

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Hardcover: 262 pages
Publisher: CRC Press; 1 edition (May 17, 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1566760046
ISBN-13: 978-1566760041
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.1 x 1 inches
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,398,027 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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During the last two decades, significant advances have been made in the controlled release drug delivery of therapeutic agents [1 - 17]. Read the first page

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degradable crosslinking agents, biodegradable hydrogel systems, degradable bonds, starch microparticles, interpenetrating hydrogel network, starch hydrogels, biodegradable hydrogels, high molecular weight drugs, albumin beads, oligopeptide sequences, hydrogels crosslinked, dextran microspheres, biodegradable drug delivery systems, gelatin microspheres, albumin microspheres, glycidyl acrylate, physical gels, pectinic acid, crosslinking density, drug release, biodegradable system, sucrose derivatives, oral drug delivery, low molecular weight drugs, bulk degradation

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New York, Boca Raton, Controlled Rel, Plenum Press, John Wiley, Academic Press, Marcel Dekker, Polymers Containing Enzymatically Degradable Bonds, Polymer Sci, American Chemical Society, Physical Gelation, Oxford University Press, Noyes Data Corp, Park Ridge, Biological Sources, Novel Materials, Polymer Gels, Stockton Press, Chains Connected, Oligopeptide Sequences Cleavable, Press Inc, Second Edition, The Degradation of Poly, Acrylic Microspheres, Bioerodible Hydrogels

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This book cites 93 books:

Hydrogels In Medicine by Peppas on 4 pages
Absorbent Polymer Technology by L. Brannon-Peppas on page 9, page 30, and page 97
Controlled Release of Biologically Active Agents by Richard Baker on page 7, page 61, and page 223
Polymer Gels by D. DeRossi on page 10, page 130, and page 132
Carbohydrate Chemistry (Oxford science publications) by John F. Kennedy on page 93, page 131, and page 133

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Biomaterials: Principles and Applications by Joon B. Park in Front Matter, page 114, and page 115
Absorbable and Biodegradable Polymers (Advances in Polymeric Biomaterials) by Shalaby W. Shalaby on page 252, and page 272
Surfactants and Polymers in Drug Delivery (Drugs and the Pharmaceutical Sciences) by Martin Malmsten on page 259, and page 317
Principles of Polymer Systems (Fourth Edition) by Claude Cohen on page 418, and page 517
Microparticulate Systems for the Delivery of Proteins and Vaccines (Drugs and the Pharmaceutical Sciences) by Smadar Cohen on page 146, and page 201

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