A Review on Recent Advances in Stabilizing Peptides/Proteins upon Fabrication in Hydrogels from Biodegradable Polymers

• Main Authors: Faisal Raza (Author), Hajra Zafar (Author), Ying Zhu (Author), Yuan Ren (Author), Aftab -Ullah (Author), Asif Ullah Khan (Author), Xinyi He (Author), Han Han (Author), Md Aquib (Author), Kofi Oti Boakye-Yiadom (Author), Liang Ge (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Hydrogels evolved as an outstanding carrier material for local and controlled drug delivery that tend to overcome the shortcomings of old conventional dosage forms for small drugs (NSAIDS) and large peptides and proteins. The aqueous swellable and crosslinked polymeric network structure of hydrogels...