Surprising performance of alginate beads for the release of low-molecular-weight drugs

The model of low-molecular-weight drugs has been encapsulated within alginate beads hardened with calcium chloride. The drug's release kinetic using 3% (w/v) alginate has shown a surprising behavior after 2 h, where the release kinetic was shifted from Fickian to case II transport mechanism con...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Elnashar, Magdy, Yassin, M., El-Fetouh Abdel Moneim, A., Bary, E.
Format: Journal Article
Published: John Wiley and Sons Inc 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34087