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ReviewAdvanced pharmaceutical bulletin2020

Stimuli-Responsive Polymeric Nanosystem for Colon Specific Drug Delivery.

Sharon Kunnath Joseph, Mangalath Sabitha, Sreeja Chandrasekharan Nair

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Review in Advanced pharmaceutical bulletin, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Sharon Kunnath JosephAmrita School of Pharmacy, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, AIMS Health Sciences Campus, Kochi-682041, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1409-1516
Mangalath SabithaAmrita School of Pharmacy, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, AIMS Health Sciences Campus, Kochi-682041, India.
Sreeja Chandrasekharan NairAmrita School of Pharmacy, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, AIMS Health Sciences Campus, Kochi-682041, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9861-0461

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An ideal colon specific drug delivery system needs to perform multiple functions like greater bio availability, less toxicity and higher therapeutic efficacy, all of which require high degree of smartness. This article focuses on the overview of the stimuli-responsive polymers and various nanodrug delivery systems which have found applications in colon specific delivery of drugs as this system provide a link between therapeutic need and drug delivery. These polymers exhibit a non-linear response to a small stimulus leading to a macroscopic alteration in their structure/properties. Stimuli responsive polymers display a significant physio chemical change in response to small changes in their environment (temperature, pH, light etc.). Colonic drug delivery has gained increased importance in treating diseases like Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, colon cancer etc. The expansion in the development of polymers based system with greater flexibility, versatility and unexplored potential enables new opportunities for them in uplifting bio medicine. Applying the concepts of smartness in the context of clinically relevant therapeutic and diagnostic systems, it can prelude in a new era of 'smart' therapeutics that can improve the health care fields. In particular, due to its high sensitivity to the stimuli, this system has been identified as a sensible platform for releasing drug at suitable site and at appropriate time.

Indexed as

Colon specific drug deliveryControlled releaseNano platformNanopolymersSmart polymersStimuli responsive polymers

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PMID32002356
PMCPMC6983990

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