Drug delivery therapies I: general trends and its importance on bone tissue engineering applications

[Excerpt] Drug delivery systems are not a new subject in the Biomaterials/Biomedical field. However, they are almost in continuous fashion since the 1940s, when the first drug delivery system was developed with the aim of raising drug concentration in the blood [1], thus decreasing the periodicity o...

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Main Author: Malafaya, P. B. (author)
Other Authors: Silva, G. A. (author), Reis, R. L. (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2002
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/271
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/271