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Solanki R, Bhatia D. Stimulus-Responsive Hydrogels for Targeted Cancer Therapy. Gels 2024; 10:440. [PMID: 39057463 PMCID: PMC11275390 DOI: 10.3390/gels10070440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2024] [Revised: 06/27/2024] [Accepted: 06/29/2024] [Indexed: 07/28/2024] Open
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Cancer is a highly heterogeneous disease and remains a global health challenge affecting millions of human lives worldwide. Despite advancements in conventional treatments like surgery, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy, the rise of multidrug resistance, tumor recurrence, and their severe side effects and the complex nature of the tumor microenvironment (TME) necessitates innovative therapeutic approaches. Recently, stimulus-responsive nanomedicines designed to target TME characteristics (e.g., pH alterations, redox conditions, enzyme secretion) have gained attention for their potential to enhance anticancer efficacy while minimizing the adverse effects of chemotherapeutics/bioactive compounds. Among the various nanocarriers, hydrogels are intriguing due to their high-water content, adjustable mechanical characteristics, and responsiveness to external and internal stimuli, making them promising candidates for cancer therapy. These properties make hydrogels an ideal nanocarrier for controlled drug release within the TME. This review comprehensively surveys the latest advancements in the area of stimulus-responsive hydrogels for cancer therapy, exploring various stimuli-responsive mechanisms, including biological (e.g., pH, redox), chemical (e.g., enzymes, glucose), and physical (e.g., temperature, light), as well as dual- or multi-stimuli responsiveness. Furthermore, this review addresses the current developments and challenges in hydrogels in cancer treatment. Our aim is to provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of stimulus-responsive hydrogels for cancer treatment, offering novel perspectives on their development for cancer therapy and other medical applications.
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- Raghu Solanki
- Department of Biological Sciences and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Palaj 382355, Gujarat, India
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Palaj 382355, Gujarat, India
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Khan A, Zaman M, Waqar MA, Mahmood A, Shaheer T, Sarfraz RM, Shahzadi K, Khan AA, Alanazi AM, Kundu MK, Islam MR, Alexiou A, Papadakis M. Sustained release delivery of favipiravir through statistically optimized, chemically cross-linked, pH-sensitive, swellable hydrogel. BMC Pharmacol Toxicol 2024; 25:31. [PMID: 38685129 PMCID: PMC11057099 DOI: 10.1186/s40360-024-00752-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2023] [Accepted: 04/10/2024] [Indexed: 05/02/2024] Open
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In the current work, favipiravir (an antiviral drug) loaded pH-responsive polymeric hydrogels were developed by the free redical polymerization technique. Box-Behnken design method via Design Expert version 11 was employed to furnish the composition of all hydrogel formulations. Here, polyethylene glycol (PEG) has been utilized as a polymer, acrylic acid (AA) as a monomer, and potassium persulfate (KPS) and methylene-bisacrylamide (MBA) as initiator and cross-linker, respectively. All networks were evaluated for in-vitro drug release (%), sol-gel fraction (%), swelling studies (%), porosity (%), percentage entrapment efficiency, and chemical compatibilities. According to findings, the swelling was pH sensitive and was shown to be greatest at a pH of 6.8 (2500%). The optimum gel fraction offered was 97.8%. A sufficient porosity allows the hydrogel to load a substantial amount of favipiravir despite its hydrophobic behavior. Hydrogels exhibited maximum entrapment efficiency of favipiravir upto 98%. The in-vitro release studies of drug-formulated hydrogel revealed that the drug release from hydrogel was between 85 to 110% within 24 h. Drug-release kinetic results showed that the Korsmeyer Peppas model was followed by most of the developed formulations based on the R2 value. In conclusion, the hydrogel-based technology proved to be an excellent option for creating the sustained-release dosage form of the antiviral drug favipiravir.
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- Arooj Khan
- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Lahore University of Biological and Applied Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan
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- Department of Pharmacy, University of Chakwal, Chakwal, Pakistan
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
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- Faculty of Pharmacy, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
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- Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, 11451, Saudi Arabia
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- Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, 11451, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry, Tennessee State University, 3500 John A Merritt Blvd, Nashville, TN, 37209, USA
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- University Centre for Research and Development, Chandigarh University, Chandigarh-Ludhiana Highway, Mohali, Punjab, India
- Department of Research and Development, Funogen, Athens, Greece
- Department of Research and Development, AFNP Med, Wien, 1030, Austria
- Department of Science and Engineering, Novel Global Community Educational Foundation, Hebersham, NSW, 2770, Australia
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- Department of Surgery II, University Hospital Witten-Herdecke, University of Witten-Herdecke, Heusnerstrasse 40, 42283, Wuppertal, Germany.
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Rizwan A, Gulfam M, Jo SH, Seo JW, Ali I, Thang Vu T, Joo SB, Park SH, Taek Lim K. Gelatin-based NIR and reduction-responsive injectable hydrogels cross-linked through IEDDA click chemistry for drug delivery application. Eur Polym J 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2023.112019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/07/2023]
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Yuan Z, Ding J, Zhang Y, Huang B, Song Z, Meng X, Ma X, Gong X, Huang Z, Ma S, Xiang S, Xu W. Components, mechanisms and applications of stimuli-responsive polymer gels. Eur Polym J 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2022.111473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Vu TT, Gulfam M, Jo SH, Park SH, Lim KT. Injectable and biocompatible alginate-derived porous hydrogels cross-linked by IEDDA click chemistry for reduction-responsive drug release application. Carbohydr Polym 2022; 278:118964. [PMID: 34973779 DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2021.118964] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2021] [Revised: 11/11/2021] [Accepted: 11/29/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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In this work, novel injectable and reduction-responsive hydrogels were successfully prepared via inverse electron demand Diels-Alder reaction between alginate-norbornene and a water-soluble PEG based disulfide cross-linker. The reduction-responsive cross-linker was designed to contain a PEG chain within two disulfide linkages, and two terminal tetrazine groups. The resulting hydrogels possessed high swelling ratios, porous morphology, excellent drug loading efficiency (~92%), and suitable mechanical properties. The drug release experiments demonstrated that the hydrogels released more than 90% of the encapsulated doxorubicin (DOX) in the presence of 10 mM glutathione while a minimal DOX release (<25%) was measured in physiological buffer (PBS, pH = 7.4) after 11 d. The cross-linker and hydrogels did not exhibit any apparent cytotoxicity to fibroblast cells. In contrast, DOX-loaded hydrogels induced anti-tumor activity against cancer cells. The injectable and reduction-responsive hydrogels hold great potential as a biomaterial for stimuli responsive drug delivery applications.
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- Trung Thang Vu
- Department of Smart Green Technology Engineering, Pukyong National University, Busan 48513, South Korea
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- Department of Smart Green Technology Engineering, Pukyong National University, Busan 48513, South Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Pukyong National University, Busan 48513, South Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Pukyong National University, Busan 48513, South Korea
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- Department of Smart Green Technology Engineering, Pukyong National University, Busan 48513, South Korea; Department of Display Engineering, Pukyong National University, Busan 48513, South Korea.
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Veregue FR, de Lima HH, Ribeiro SC, Almeida MS, da Silva CT, Guilherme MR, Rinaldi AW. MCM-41/chondroitin sulfate hybrid hydrogels with remarkable mechanical properties and superabsorption of methylene blue. Carbohydr Polym 2020; 247:116558. [DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2020.116558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2019] [Revised: 05/18/2020] [Accepted: 05/29/2020] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Dong S, Li S, Hao Y, Gao Q. Hydroxybutyl starch-based thermosensitive hydrogel for protein separation. Int J Biol Macromol 2019; 134:165-171. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2019.04.206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2019] [Revised: 04/04/2019] [Accepted: 04/30/2019] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Liu S, Tian L, Mao H, Ning W, Shang P, Wu J, Shi X. Micellization and sol-gel transition of novel thermo- and pH-responsive ABC triblock copolymer synthesized by RAFT. JOURNAL OF POLYMER RESEARCH 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s10965-018-1658-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Bionanocomposites based on mesoporous silica and alginate for enhanced drug delivery. Carbohydr Polym 2018; 196:126-134. [DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2018.04.107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2018] [Revised: 04/09/2018] [Accepted: 04/26/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Orakdogen N, Boyaci T. Finite extensibility and deviation from Gaussian elasticity of dimethylacrylamide-based gels with different charge density: Insight into pH/solvent-dependent swelling and surfactant interactions. POLYMER 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2017.11.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Belloto AC, Souza GK, Perin PC, Schuquel ITA, Santin SMO, Chiavelli LUR, Garcia FP, Kaplum V, Rodrigues JHS, Scariot DB, Delvecchio R, Machado-Ferreira E, Santana Aguiar R, Soares CAG, Nakamura CV, Pomini AM. Crispoic acid, a new compound from Laelia marginata (Orchidaceae), and biological evaluations against parasites, human cancer cell lines and Zika virus. Nat Prod Res 2017; 32:2916-2921. [PMID: 29117727 DOI: 10.1080/14786419.2017.1395428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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The phytochemical study of Laelia marginata (Lindl.) L. O. Williams (Orchidaceae) led to the isolation of a new natural product named crispoic acid (1), together with six other known compounds (2-7). The new natural product was identified as a dimer of eucomic acid and was structurally characterised based upon 1D and 2D NMR and HRMS data. Biological assays with plant crude extract, fractions and isolated compounds were performed against two human cancer cell lines (Hela and Siha), and the tropical parasites Trypanosoma cruzi and Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis. The phenantrenoid 9,10-dihydro-4-methoxyphenanthren-2,7-diol 2 was active against Hela and Siha cells (CC50 5.86 ± 0.19 and 20.78 ± 2.72 μg/mL, respectively). Sub-lethal concentrations of the flavone rhamnazin 4 were not able to rescue the viability of the Vero cells infected by Zika virus.
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- Andrezza C Belloto
- a Departamento de Química , Universidade Estadual de Maringá , Paraná , Brazil
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- a Departamento de Química , Universidade Estadual de Maringá , Paraná , Brazil
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- a Departamento de Química , Universidade Estadual de Maringá , Paraná , Brazil
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- a Departamento de Química , Universidade Estadual de Maringá , Paraná , Brazil
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- a Departamento de Química , Universidade Estadual de Maringá , Paraná , Brazil
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- a Departamento de Química , Universidade Estadual de Maringá , Paraná , Brazil
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- b Departamento de Ciências Básicas da Saúde , Universidade Estadual de Maringá , Paraná , Brazil
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- b Departamento de Ciências Básicas da Saúde , Universidade Estadual de Maringá , Paraná , Brazil
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- b Departamento de Ciências Básicas da Saúde , Universidade Estadual de Maringá , Paraná , Brazil
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- b Departamento de Ciências Básicas da Saúde , Universidade Estadual de Maringá , Paraná , Brazil
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- c Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Biologia , Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro , Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
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- c Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Biologia , Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro , Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
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- c Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Biologia , Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro , Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
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- c Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Biologia , Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro , Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
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- b Departamento de Ciências Básicas da Saúde , Universidade Estadual de Maringá , Paraná , Brazil
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- a Departamento de Química , Universidade Estadual de Maringá , Paraná , Brazil
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Li H, Men D, Sun Y, Zhang T, Hang L, Liu D, Li C, Cai W, Li Y. Optical sensing properties of Au nanoparticle/hydrogel composite microbeads using droplet microfluidics. NANOTECHNOLOGY 2017; 28:405502. [PMID: 28770810 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/aa83c2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Uniform Au nanoparticle (NP)/poly (acrylamide-co-acrylic acid) [P(AAm-co-AA)] hydrogel microbeads were successfully prepared using droplet microfluidics technology. The microbeads exhibited a good stimuli-responsive behavior to pH value. Particularly in the pH value ranging from pH 2-pH 9, the composite microbead sizes gradually increased along with the increase of pH value. The homogeneous Au NPs, which were encapsulated in the P(AAm-co-AA) hydrogel microbeads, could transform the volume changes of hydrogel into optical signals by a tested single microbead with a microspectrometre system. The glucose was translated into gluconic acid by glucose oxidase. Thus, the Au NP/P(AAm-co-AA) hydrogel microbeads were used for detecting glucose based on pH effects on the composite microbeads. For this, the single Au NP/P(AAm-co-AA) hydrogel microbead could act as a good pH- or glucose-visualizing sensor.
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- Huilin Li
- Key Laboratory of Materials Physics, Anhui Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, People's Republic of China. University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, People's Republic of China
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Tenório-Neto ET, Lima DDS, Guilherme MR, Lima-Tenório MK, Scariot DB, Nakamura CV, Kunita MH, Rubira AF. Synthesis and drug release profile of a dual-responsive poly(ethylene glycol) hydrogel nanocomposite. RSC Adv 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c7ra02846f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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This work describes the synthesis, characterization and application of a pH- and magnetic-responsive PEG hydrogel (HG) nanocomposite as a platform for drug delivery.
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Passos MF, Fernández-Gutiérrez M, Vázquez-Lasa B, Román JS, Filho RM. PHEMA-PLLA semi-interpenetrating polymer networks: A study of their swelling kinetics, mechanical properties and cellular behavior. Eur Polym J 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2016.10.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Thermal-responsive poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide)/sodium alginate hydrogels: preparation, swelling behaviors, and mechanical properties. Colloid Polym Sci 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s00396-016-3951-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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da Silva EP, Guilherme MR, Garcia FP, Nakamura CV, Cardozo-Filho L, Alonso CG, Rubira AF, Kunita MH. Drug release profile and reduction in the in vitro burst release from pectin/HEMA hydrogel nanocomposites crosslinked with titania. RSC Adv 2016. [DOI: 10.1039/c5ra27865a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Hydrogel nanocomposites of pectin, HEMA and titania for Vit-B12 controlled release with reduced initial release burst were prepared. A reduction of up to ca. 60% was observed.
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- Department of Basic Sciences of Health
- State University of Maringá
- Maringá
- Brazil
- Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences
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- Department of Chemistry
- State University of Maringá
- Maringá
- Brazil
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