Drug delivery, implantable

Volume 550— Biomedical Materials—Drug Delivery, Implants and Tissue Engineering,... 

Zhou T, Lewis H, Foster RE, Schwendeman SP. Development of a multiple-drug delivery implant for intraocular management of proliferative vitreoretinopathy. J Control Release 1998 55 281-295. 

Jaffe GJ, Pearson PA, Ashton P. Dexamethasone sustained drug delivery implant for the treatment of severe uveitis. Retina 2000 20 402-403. 

Currently, there are three main pharmacologic approaches to the treatment of DME in practice or under study steroids (the intravitreal injection of triamcinolone acetonide, fluocinolone acetonide sustained drug delivery implant, dexamethasone biodegradable implant), PKC inhibitors, and VEGF inhibitors. 

Zhou T, Braunhut SJ, Medeiros D, Marx KA (1999) In Mater Res Soc Symp biomedical materials drug delivery, implants and tissue engineering. Materials Research Society Pittsburgh PA 550 177... 

Drug delivery, implanting marine proteins into cell walls for therapeutics Biological filters Biomimetic chemical or toxin sensor arrays... 

Motulsky A, Lafleur M, Couffin-Hoarau AC, Hoarau D, Boury F, Benoit JP et al. Characterization and biocompatibility of organogels based on L-alanine for parenteral drug delivery implants. Biomaterials. 26(31) (2005) 6242-6253. 

Wang K, Jia Q, Han F, Liu H, Li S. Self-assembled L-alanine derivative organogel as in situ drug delivery implant Characterization, biodegradability, and biocompatibility. Drug Dev Ind Pharm. 36(12) (2010) 1511-1521. 

The types of medical devices that require biornaterials arc wide ranging across most medical disciplines. " Artificial heart valves, contact lenses, drug delivery implants. urinary catheters, and replacement hip joints are just a few examples that demonstrate where biomaterials can be employed in the body. 

PDMS SLILASTIC Dow chemicals Drug delivery implants, gas exchange membranes, intraocular lens... 

Ethylene-co-inylacetate (EVA) ELVAX DuPont Drug delivery implants... 

Gao, Y., in Biomedical Materials Drug Delivery, Implants and Tissue Engineering, Neenan, T., Marcolongo, M., Valentini, R. F., eds. Wairendale, Pa. Materials Research Society, 1999, pp. 361-366. 

Laurencin C T, Ambrosio A M A, Borden M D and Cooper Jr J A, Tissue engineering orthop)edrc applications , Ann. Rev. Biomed. Eng., 1999, 1, 19-46. Laurencin C T, Ko F K, Borden M D, Cooper Jr J A, Li W J and Attawia M A, Fiber based tissue engineered scaffolds for musculoskeletal applications in vitro cellular response . In Biomedical Materials - Drug Delivery, Implants and Tissue Engineering, ed. T Neenan, M Marcolongo and R F Valentini, Materials Research Society, Warrendale, USA, 1999, 550, 127-35. 

Andrews, G. P. Jones, D. S. (2006). Rheological Characterization of Bioadhesive Binary Polymeric Systems Designed as Platforms for Drug Delivery Implants. Biomacromolecules, Vol. 7, pp. 899-906, ISSN 1525-7797... 

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