Development of Polymer-Based Materials for Cell and Drug Delivery
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Biobased and Biodegradable Polymers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2024) | Viewed by 3094
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biopolymers; hydrogels; nanoparticles
Interests: leptin; adipokines; inflammation; arthritis; cartilage pathophysiology; immunometabolism; natural drugs
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Dear Colleagues,
The physical and chemical properties of polymeric materials need to be precisely controlled in order to fit their aimed application requirements. Polymers used for both cellular and drug delivery must be biocompatible, biodegradable over a reasonable time scale, and nonimmunogenic. Nevertheless, each application requires that different questions be answered. For instance, polymers studied for drug delivery have to fulfil size requirements, adequate loading and release kinetics, compatibility with the loaded drug, targeting and stimuli responsiveness mechanisms and specificity, etc. On the other hand, swelling and rheological characterization at ambient and physiological conditions are critical for injectable cell delivery polymeric vehicles. The polymerization mechanism, timing, and the elimination of the possible residues of the reaction are also critical.
This Special Issue of Polymers invites state-of-the-art reviews and original research articles discussing the latest advances in cellular and drug delivery systems that include polymeric components.
Dr. Yousof Farrag
Dr. Oreste Gualillo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- drug delivery
- cell delivery
- nanoparticles
- hydrogels
- biopolymers
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