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Polystyrene microsphere and 5-fluorouracil release from custom-designed wound dressing films

Maryam Mobed-Miremadi1, Raki Komarla Nagendra2, Sujana Lakshmi Ramachandruni2

  • 1Department of Biomedical, Chemical and Materials Engineering, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, 95192-0082, USA. maryam.mobed-miremadi@sjsu.edu.

Progress in Biomaterials
|February 23, 2018
PubMed
Summary

This study developed chitosan and alginate wound dressing films for drug delivery. Alginate films offered better elasticity and longer drug release, while chitosan films showed higher moisture absorption, enabling tunable drug release kinetics.

Keywords:
5-FUAlginateAtomic force microscopyChitosanMicrospherePore sizeRelease modeling

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