Scaffolding drug delivery

A composite scaffold drug delivery system (CS-DDS) for osteoarticular tuberculosis therapy has been prepared by loading bi-component drugs into a... 

Chitosan/PEO Nonwoven scaffold, drug delivery TE SEM, XPS, FTIR, DSC (Duan et al. 2004)... 

The CNY obtained by electrospinning technology is a porous nonwoven mat with a high absorption capacity. Due to its features this nanomaterial can be used for wound dressing, tissue scaffolds, drug delivery systems, etc. (Vargas, 2010). 

There is currently a renewed interest in the use of electrospinning techniques for the fabrication of membranes. Chapter 8 reviews the use of this versatile technique for the production of nanofiber webs or membranes. The chemical and physical properties of nanofiber manbrane surfaces play an important role in their application to filtration, biomedical materials, tissue engineering scaffolds, drug delivery... 

Keywords Collagen, biocompatibility, biodegradabihty, forms, tissue engineering scaffolds, drug delivery, pharmaceutical applications, wound dressing, biomaterials... 

The nanostructured molecular arrangements from DNA developed by Seeman may find applications as biological encapsulation and drug-delivery systems, as artificial multienzymes, or as scaffolds for the self-assembling nanoscale fabrication of technical elements. Moreover, DNA-protein conjugates may be anticipated as versatile building blocks in the fabrication of multifunctional supramolecular devices and also as highly functional-... 

Improved characterization of the morphological/microstructural properties of porous solids, and the associated transport properties of fluids imbibed into these materials, is crucial to the development of new porous materials, such as ceramics. Of particular interest is the fabrication of so-called functionalized ceramics, which contain a pore structure tailored to a specific biomedical or industrial application (e.g., molecular filters, catalysts, gas storage cells, drug delivery devices, tissue scaffolds) [1-3]. Functionalization of ceramics can involve the use of graded or layered pore microstructure, morphology or chemical composition. 

Ordered mesoporous silica have already been studied as carriers for drug delivery [1,2] recently, their use has also been proposed in bone tissue engineering [3,4], in combination with bioactive glass-ceramic scaffolds [5,6]. The kinetics of ibuprofen release in SBF [7] from MCM-41 silica with similar pore diameter has shown puzzling discontinuities [3,6,8] aim of the present work is to assess whether these anomalies may be related to structural changes in the MCM-41 mesoporous spheres under the adopted conditions. 

PGA was one of the very first degradable polymers ever investigated for biomedical use. PGA found favor as a degradable suture, and has been actively used since 1970 [45 -7]. Because PGA is poorly soluble in many common solvents, limited research has been conducted with PGA-based drug delivery devices. Instead, most recent research has focused on short-term tissue engineering scaffolds. PGA is often fabricated into a mesh network and has been used as a scaffold for bone [48-51], cartilage [52-54], tendon [55, 56], and tooth [57]. 

The same group reported the simultaneous radiolabeling (with DOTA-anchored 4Cu) and fluorescence studies, coupled with biodistribution in vivo and in vitro (92). It is believed that appropriately functionalized SWNTs can efficiently reach tumor tissues in mice with no apparent toxicity (159). Furthermore, water-solubilised carbon nanotubes are nontoxic when taken up by cells even in high concentration (92). These studies have been complemented by the recent PET imaging of water-soluble 86Y labelled carbon nanotubes in vivo (mice) (160,161), to explore the potential usefulness of carbon nanocarriers as scaffolds for drug delivery. The tissue biodistribution and pharmacokinetics of model DOTA functionalized nanotubes have been explored in vivo (mouse model). MicroPET images indicated accumulation of activity mainly in the kidney, liver, spleen, and to a much less... 

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