Abstract

RECENT EXPANSIONS IN AN EMERGENT NOVEL DRUG DELIVERY TECHNOLOGY: HYDROGEL

Prerna K. Ratnaparkhi*, Vipulkumar D. Prajapati, Girish K. Jani,
Himanshu K. Solanki.

ABSTRACT

With the arrival of medical science large numbers of new therapeutic moieties are discovered and demands specialized carrier for their delivery into specific sites of the body. Hydrogels which are three-dimensional cross-linked polymer network that can respond to the fluctuations of the ecological stimuli. These biomaterials can incorporate large quantum of biological fluids and swell. When swelled, they are soft & rubbery and resemble the living tissue, exhibiting excellent biocompatibility. Today, drug delivery incident several challenges where hydrogel could be one potential answer to those. The specific requirements of advanced drug delivery could easily be met by hydrogels. Wide range of methods for the synthesis of these novel biomaterials has extended its application from drug delivery system to tissue engineering scaffolds, wound dressing material, gene delivery device and biosensors. Further explore into the fundamentals of multi-polymer based hydrogel and their properties, may give raise a novel approach for implementing the biomaterials in the biomedical field in a better way. In this review article an attempt has been made to describe the advancement in hydrogel for novel drug delivery as well as use of it in various applications.

Keywords: Hydrogels, Drug Delivery, Novel, Biomaterials.