An injectable in situ gel with cubic and hexagonal nanostructures for local treatment of chronic periodontitis

• Main Authors: Liling Mei (Author), Xintian Huang (Author), Yecheng Xie (Author), Jintian Chen (Author), Ying Huang (Author), Bei Wang (Author), Hui Wang (Author), Xin Pan (Author), Chuanbin Wu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Periodontitis is a chronic bacterial infection, and its effective treatment is dependent on the retention of antibiotics of effective concentrations at the periodontal pockets. In this study, a solution-gel based inverse lyotropic liquid crystalline (LLC) system was explored to deliver metronidazole...