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PLA-based thermogel for the sustained delivery of chemotherapeutics in a mouse model of hepatocellular carcinoma

Published:2016 Issue:50 Volume:6 Page:44506-44513
ISSN:2046-2069
Container-title:RSC Advances
language:en
Short-container-title:RSC Adv.

Author:

Wu Yun-Long¹²³⁴,Wang Han¹²³⁴,Qiu Ying-Kun¹²³⁴,Loh Xian Jun⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹

Affiliation:

1. School of Pharmaceutical Sciences

2. Xiamen University

3. Xiamen

4. P. R. China

5. Institute of Materials Research and Engineering

6. A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research)

7. Singapore 138634

8. Singapore

9. Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Abstract

This work represents the first time that poly(PEG/PPG/PLA urethane) has been used for the delivery of drugs to tumours in vivo and the encouraging results point to the potential for further development of this thermogel platform for anti-cancer applications.

Funder

Agency for Science, Technology and Research

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Chemical Engineering,General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2016/RA/C6RA08022G

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