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creators_name: Gagliardi, Mariacristina
creators_name: Mazzolai, Barbara
creators_id: mariacristina.gagliardi@imtlucca.it
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title: Molecularly imprinted polymeric micro- and nano-particles for the targeted delivery of active molecules
ispublished: pub
subjects: QD
divisions: CSA
full_text_status: none
abstract: Molecular imprinting (MI) represents a strategy to introduce a ‘molecular memory’ in a polymeric system obtaining materials with specific recognition properties. MI particles can be used as drug delivery systems providing a targeted release and thus reducing the side effects. The introduction of molecular recognition properties on a polymeric drug carrier represents a challenge in the development of targeted delivery systems to increase their efficiency. This review will summarize the limited number of drug delivery MI particles described in the literature along with an overview of potential solutions for a larger exploitation of MI particles as targeted drug delivery carriers. Molecularly imprinted drug carriers can be considered interesting candidates to significantly improve the efficiency of a controlled drug treatment.
date: 2015
date_type: published
publication: Future Medicinal Chemistry
volume: 7
number: 2
publisher: Future Science
pagerange: 123-138
id_number: 10.4155/fmc.14.140
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1756-8919
official_url: http://www.future-science.com/doi/abs/10.4155/fmc.14.140?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%3dpubmed
citation:   Gagliardi, Mariacristina and Mazzolai, Barbara  Molecularly imprinted polymeric micro- and nano-particles for the targeted delivery of active molecules.  Future Medicinal Chemistry, 7 (2).  pp. 123-138.  ISSN 1756-8919      (2015)