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ReviewMedicines (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Drug-Loaded Biocompatible Nanocarriers Embedded in Poloxamer 407 Hydrogels as Therapeutic Formulations.

Elena Giuliano, Donatella Paolino, Massimo Fresta, Donato Cosco

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Review in Medicines (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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43 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Elena GiulianoDepartment of Health Sciences, University "Magna Græcia" of Catanzaro, Campus Universitario "S. Venuta", Viale S. Venuta, I-88100 Catanzaro, Italy. elena.giuliano@unicz.it.
Donatella PaolinoDepartment of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University "Magna Græcia" of Catanzaro, Campus Universitario "S. Venuta", Viale S. Venuta, I-88100 Catanzaro, Italy. paolino@unicz.it.
Massimo FrestaDepartment of Health Sciences, University "Magna Græcia" of Catanzaro, Campus Universitario "S. Venuta", Viale S. Venuta, I-88100 Catanzaro, Italy. fresta@unicz.it.
Donato CoscoDepartment of Health Sciences, University "Magna Græcia" of Catanzaro, Campus Universitario "S. Venuta", Viale S. Venuta, I-88100 Catanzaro, Italy. donatocosco@unicz.it.ORCID 0000-0002-4898-0365

Funding

Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca FFABR 2017, Fondo per il Finanziamento delle Attività di Base di Ricerca
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hydrogels are three-dimensional networks of hydrophilic polymers able to absorb and retain a considerable amount of water or biological fluid while maintaining their structure. Among these, thermo-sensitive hydrogels, characterized by a temperature-dependent sol⁻gel transition, have been massively used as drug delivery systems for the controlled release of various bioactives. Poloxamer 407 (P407) is an ABA-type triblock copolymer with a center block of hydrophobic polypropylene oxide (PPO) between two hydrophilic polyethyleneoxide (PEO) lateral chains. Due to its unique thermo-reversible gelation properties, P407 has been widely investigated as a temperature-responsive material. The gelation phenomenon of P407 aqueous solutions is reversible and characterized by a sol⁻gel transition temperature. The nanoencapsulation of drugs within biocompatible delivery systems dispersed in P407 hydrogels is a strategy used to increase the local residence time of various bioactives at the injection site. In this mini-review, the state of the art of the most important mixed systems made up of colloidal carriers localized within a P407 hydrogel will be provided in order to illustrate the possibility of obtaining a controlled release of the entrapped drugs and an increase in their therapeutic efficacy as a function of the biomaterial used.

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colloidscontrolled drug releaseethosomesliposomesnanoparticlesniosomespoloxamer 407

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PMID30597953
PMCPMC6473859

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