RESEARCH ARTICLE
Biomedical Applications of Interpenetrating Polymer Network System
Mohd Fuzail Qadri*, Rishabha Malviya , Pramod Kumar Sharma
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2015Volume: 2
First Page: 21
Last Page: 30
Publisher Id: PHARMSCI-2-21
DOI: 10.2174/1874844901502010021
Article History:
Received Date: 4/6/2015Revision Received Date: 30/6/2015
Acceptance Date: 28/7/2015
Electronic publication date: 30/10/2015
Collection year: 2015
open-access license: This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode), which permits unrestricted, noncommercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
Abstract
Interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) has been regarded as one of the novel technology in recent years showing the superior performances over the conventional techniques. This system is designed for the delivery of drugs at a predetermined rate and thus helps in controlled drug delivery. Due to its enhanced biological and physical characteristics like biodegradability, biocompatibility, solubility, specificity and stability, IPN has emerged out to be one of the excellent technologies in pharmaceutical industries. This article focuses mainly on the biomedical applications of IPN along with its future applicability in pharmaceutical research. It summarizes various aspects of IPN, biomedical applications and also in-cludes the different dosage forms based on IPN.