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Hydrogels: Stimuli Responsive to on-Demand Drug Delivery Systems

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Hydrogels are the three dimensional crosslinked network of polymeric materials, which have the ability to respond and adapt to the surrounding environment inside the human body. Hydrogels are the upcoming class of biomaterials, which act as excellent drug delivery systems. These materials have important characteristic feature that they respond to various external stimuli like pH, light, temperature, magnetic field, electric field and pressure. Present chapter gives a broad overview of the recent hydrogels used for drug delivery using various external stimuli. Concluding remarks and viewpoints for the future development of stimuli responsive hydrogels are addressed.

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Acknowledgements

Authors acknowledge NIH grants: RO1DA027049, R21MH 101,025, RO1DA 034547, R01DA037838, and 1R01DA040537.

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  1. Center for Personalized Nanomedicine, Institute of Neuro immune Pharmacology, Department of Immunology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 33199, USA

    Arti Vashist, Ajeet Kaushik, Rahul Dev Jayant & Madhavan Nair

  2. Department of Biotechnology, All India Institute Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

    Atul Vashist

  3. Department of Chemistry, School of Basic and Applied Sciences, Galgotias University, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Anujit Ghosal

  4. School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

    Anujit Ghosal

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Vashist, A., Kaushik, A., Jayant, R.D., Vashist, A., Ghosal, A., Nair, M. (2017). Hydrogels: Stimuli Responsive to on-Demand Drug Delivery Systems. In: Kaushik, A., Jayant, R., Nair, M. (eds) Advances in Personalized Nanotherapeutics . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63633-7_8

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