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PHARMACEUTICS
Volume 10, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics10020071
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hydrogels; skin; wound healing; drug delivery
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Wound management, in addition to presenting a significant burden to patients and their families, also contributes significantly to a country's healthcare costs. Treatment strategies are numerous, but in most cases not ideal. Hydrogels, three-dimensional polymeric materials that can withstand a great degree of swelling without losing structural integrity, are drawing great attention for their use as topical wound management solutions in the form of films and as vehicles for drug delivery, due to their unique properties of high water content, biocompatibility, and flexibility. Hydrogels, both naturally and synthetically derived, can be tuned to respond to specific stimuli such as pH, temperature and light and they are ideally suited as drug delivery vehicles. Here we provide a brief overview of the history and characteristics of hydrogels, assess their uses in wound management and drug delivery, and compare them with other types of common drug delivery vehicle.
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