Hydrogels in Drug Delivery: Advances in the Manufacture, Characterization, and Application of Hydrogels to Address Current Global Healthcare Challenges

Hydrogels in Drug Delivery: Advances in the Manufacture, Characterization, and Application of Hydrogels to Address Current Global Healthcare Challenges covers a number of topics ranging from the basic chemistry of hydrogels to specific application of existent and novel hydrogels in controlled drug delivery and biomedicine. Hydrogels have been increasingly used in the development of novel formulations with application in a wide variety of therapeutic and monitoring purposes. Multidisciplinary work carried out by researchers working in synthetic chemistry, drug delivery, biomedicine and other fields led to the development of novel polymers enabling the preparation of hydrogels with adjustable physicochemical properties. Accordingly, these materials offer multiple advantages over other drug delivery systems, including an increased patient compliance by reducing the required number of medication doses, reducing the healing time in injuries, or simplifying patient monitoring by reducing the invasiveness of currently available methods. Covers the fundamental mechanisms of drug delivery from a hydrophilic matrixProvides interconnections between introductory and applied materials chaptersIncludes experimental pictures and links to multimedia features including videos and slides INDICE: 1. Synthesis and chemistry of hydrogels2. Characterization techniques of hydrogels in healthcare3. Hydrogels in controlled drug delivery, mechanisms involved in drug delivery from hydrophilic matrices4. Molecularly imprinted hydrogels in drug delivery5. Protein-like hydrogels, synthesis, and applications in biomedicine6. Stimuli responsive hydrogels in drug delivery and biomedicine7. Hydrogel-forming microneedles8. Injectable depot-forming hydrogels for long-acting drug delivery9. Hydrogels for vaginal drug delivery and other applications10. In situ gel forming formulations for topical drug delivery11. The use of hydrogels in oral drug delivery12. 3D-printed devices based on hydrogels in healthcare13. Hydrogels and their application in tissue regeneration14. The role of hydrogels in wound healing

• ISBN: 978-0-443-22017-3
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 300
• Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2025
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés