Smart Hydrogels for Advanced Drug Delivery Systems

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A2 Katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Volume 23, issue 7

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Since the last few decades, the development of smart hydrogels, which can respond to stimuli and adapt their responses based on external cues from their environments, has become a thriving research frontier in the biomedical engineering field. Nowadays, drug delivery systems have received great attention and smart hydrogels can be potentially used in these systems due to their high stability, physicochemical properties, and biocompatibility. Smart hydrogels can change their hydrophilicity, swelling ability, physical properties, and molecules permeability, influenced by external stimuli such as pH, temperature, electrical and magnetic fields, light, and the biomolecules’ concentration, thus resulting in the controlled release of the loaded drugs. Herein, this review encompasses the latest investigations in the field of stimuli-responsive drug-loaded hydrogels and our contribution to this matter.

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| openaire: EC/H2020/860462/EU//PREMUROSA Funding Information: This study has received funding from the European Union?s Horizon 2020 research and innovation Programme under the Marie Sk?odowska-Curie grant agreement no. 860462 for the ?PREMUROSA? project. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

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Bordbar-Khiabani, A & Gasik, M 2022, 'Smart Hydrogels for Advanced Drug Delivery Systems', International Journal of Molecular Sciences, vol. 23, no. 7, 3665. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms23073665