PolySciTech (
www.polyscitech.com)
provides a wide array of biodegradable polymers and block copolymers for drug
delivery applications. A recent review article details several of these
applications regarding drug delivery. Read more: Behera, Basanta Kumar, Ranjit
Mohapatra, and Sunit Kumar Sahoo. "Novel Functionalized Polymers in Drug
Delivery: A Brief Review." Journal of Current Pharma Research 4, no. 3
(2014): 1201-1210. This article is available in full-text here
http://www.jcpronline.in/images/articles/1201-1210.pdf
“Abstract:
During the last few years, the science and technology of functionalized
biodegradable polymers have received considerable interest in the field of
polymer chemistry as well as pharmaceuticals. The novel concept behind the
approaches is to produce improved polymers with enhanced desirable properties.
In the recent years the functionalized polymers are synthesized and used in the
form of Polymeric micelle, Polymer vesicles / Polymersomes, Films,
Nanocomposite particles, “Smart” polymer conjugates, Hydrogels, Nanogels /
Hydrogel nanoparticles, Mesoporous silica nanoparticles, Magnetic nanoparticles
(MNPs) and Nanoparticles for improving pharmaceutical properties and
therapeutic efficacy of the drugs. The functionalized polymers not only used as
carriers but also improves the complications associated with the novel drug
delivery formulations like: reduce P-glycoprotein drug efflux function and
prevent drug resistance, improves drug loading, improved gene delivery in
mesenchymal stem cells etc. In future these functionalized polymers are going
to play a vital role in pharmaceutical and biological sciences in order to
improve the therapeutic efficacy of a desired drug in field of cancer therapy,
tuberculosis therapy, antimicrobial therapy and gene delivery. Keywords:
Biodegradable, films, nanoparticles, nanogels, smart polymer conjugates.”
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