Study of artemisinin nanocapsules as anticancer drug delivery systems

✍ Scribed by Youfang Chen; Xianfu Lin; Hyunjin Park; Richard Greever

• Book ID: 103849492
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 401 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1549-9634
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nano.2008.12.005

✦ Synopsis

From the clinical editor:

Artemisinin (art) crystals were encapsulated with chitosan, gelatin, and alginate for the purpose of controlled release of this anticancer drug. the reported method is feasible for achieving prolonged drug release through self-assembly of polyelectroytes on natural drug crystals.