[HTML][HTML] Hydrogels in drug delivery: Progress and challenges

TR Hoare, DS Kohane - polymer, 2008 - Elsevier
There has been considerable progress in recent years in addressing the clinical and
pharmacological limitations of hydrogels for drug delivery applications but substantial …

Carrageenan based hydrogels for drug delivery, tissue engineering and wound healing

R Yegappan, V Selvaprithiviraj, S Amirthalingam… - Carbohydrate …, 2018 - Elsevier
Carrageenan is a class of naturally occurring sulphated polysaccharides, which is currently
a promising candidate in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine as it resemblances …

Adsorptive removal of cationic methylene blue dye using carboxymethyl cellulose/k-carrageenan/activated montmorillonite composite beads: Isotherm and kinetic …

C Liu, AM Omer, X Ouyang - International journal of biological …, 2018 - Elsevier
In the present study, new composite beads based on carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC)/k-
carrageenan (kC)/activated montmorillonite (AMMT) were prepared for adsorptive removal …

Marine origin polysaccharides in drug delivery systems

MJ Cardoso, RR Costa, JF Mano - Marine drugs, 2016 - mdpi.com
Oceans are a vast source of natural substances. In them, we find various compounds with
wide biotechnological and biomedical applicabilities. The exploitation of the sea as a …

Dual-layered pH-sensitive alginate/chitosan/kappa-carrageenan microbeads for colon-targeted release of 5-fluorouracil

X Sun, C Liu, AM Omer, LY Yang, X Ouyang - International journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
A new pH-sensitive drug carrier based on alginate (Alg), chitosan (Cs), and kappa-
carrageenan (kC) marine biopolymers was developed, comprising a dual-layered …

Chitosan/carrageenan nanoparticles: Effect of cross-linking with tripolyphosphate and charge ratios

S Rodrigues, AMR Da Costa, A Grenha - Carbohydrate polymers, 2012 - Elsevier
Chitosan/carrageenan/tripolyphosphate nanoparticles were prepared by polyelectrolyte
complexation/ionic gelation, the latter compound acting as cross-linker. The incorporation of …

Aerogel microspheres from natural cellulose nanofibrils and their application as cell culture scaffold

H Cai, S Sharma, W Liu, W Mu, W Liu, X Zhang… - …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We demonstrated that ultralight pure natural aerogel microspheres can be fabricated using
cellulose nanofibrials (CNF) directly. Experimentally, the CNF aqueous gel droplets …

Nanoparticle-reinforced polyacrylamide hydrogel composites for clinical applications: a review

S Awasthi, JK Gaur, MS Bobji, C Srivastava - Journal of Materials Science, 2022 - Springer
Polyacrylamide hydrogels have made an immensely important place in various fields having
bio-compatibility, high water-holding capacity, tunability and cheap synthesis, which has …

Alginate-based double-network hydrogel improves the viability of encapsulated probiotics during simulated sequential gastrointestinal digestion: Effect of biopolymer …

X Qi, S Simsek, B Chen, J Rao - International Journal of Biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
The impact of secondary polysaccharide, ie, low methoxyl pectin (LMP) or κ-carrageenan
(KC), and its concentration (0.2, 0.4, and 0.6%) on particle size, shape, morphological …

Biodegradable liposome-encapsulated hydrogels for biomedical applications: A marriage of convenience

S Grijalvo, J Mayr, R Eritja, DD Díaz - Biomaterials science, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Hydrogels are hydrophilic three-dimensional networks with demonstrated potential for
medical and pharmaceutical applications. Specifically, biopolymer-based hydrogels offer …