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ArticlePolymers2020

Design and Preparation of New Multifunctional Hydrogels Based on Chitosan/Acrylic Polymers for Drug Delivery and Wound Dressing Applications.

Ioana A Duceac, Liliana Verestiuc, Cristina D Dimitriu, Vasilica Maier, Sergiu Coseri

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Article in Polymers, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 62 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Ioana A Duceac"Petru Poni" Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of Romanian Academy, 41 A Gr. Ghica Voda Alley, 700487 Iasi, Romania.
Liliana VerestiucDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medical Bioengineering, "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 9-13 M. Kogalniceanu Street, 700454 Iasi, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-3098-8406
Cristina D DimitriuDepartment of Morpho-Functional Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 16 Universitatii Street, 700115 Iasi, Romania.
Vasilica MaierDepartment of Textiles and Leather Chemical Engineering, "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iasi, 700050 Iasi, Romania.
Sergiu Coseri"Petru Poni" Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of Romanian Academy, 41 A Gr. Ghica Voda Alley, 700487 Iasi, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-8993-5552
Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy · ROGheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași · RORomanian Academy · RO

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The dynamic evolution of materials with medical applications, particularly for drug delivery and wound dressing applications, gives impetus to design new proposed materials, among which, hydrogels represent a promising, powerful tool. In this context, multifunctional hydrogels have been obtained from chemically modified chitosan and acrylic polymers as cross-linkers, followed by subsequent conjugation with arginine. The hydrogels were finely tuned considering the variation of the synthetic monomer and the preparation conditions. The advantage of using both natural and synthetic polymers allowed porous networks with superabsorbent behavior, associated with a non-Fickian swelling mechanism. The in vitro release profiles for ibuprofen and the corresponding kinetics were studied, and the results revealed a swelling-controlled release. The biodegradability studies in the presence of lysozyme, along with the hemostatic evaluation and the induced fibroblast and stem cell proliferation, have shown that the prepared hydrogels exhibit characteristics that make them suitable for local drug delivery and wound dressing.

Indexed as

N-citraconyl-chitosanpoly(acrylic acid)/poly(methacrylic acid)superabsorbent hydrogel

Identifiers

PMID32630040
PMCPMC7407571
OpenAlexW3038897058

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