Environment-responsive drug delivery systems have emerged as attractive alternative to traditional systems, delivering therapeutic agents on-demand to their target tissue. Temperature and pH arise as two of the most commonly utilized stimuli for triggering these responses. Among polymeric carriers, temperature and pH dual-responsive nanocarriers were developed to exhibit changes in drug release rate or particle size upon change in environment’s pH and temperature. In this chapter, various design aspects of temperature- and pH -dual-responsive polymeric nanocarriers are discussed in details with examples, illustrating different responsive polymeric materials used in their fabrication. The interplay between temperature- and pH-responsiveness within the polymeric nanocarriers are discussed too.
Research Department
Research Journal
Stimuli Responsive Polymeric Nanocarriers for Drug Delivery Applications(1st Edition)
Research Publisher
Elsevier (Imprint: Woodhead Publishing)
Research Rank
1
Research Vol
Volume 2: Advanced Nanocarriers for Therapeutics
Research Website
https://www.elsevier.com/books/stimuli-responsive-polymeric-nanocarriers-for-drug-delivery-applications/makhlouf/978-0-08-101995-5
Research Year
2018
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