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Hydrogels have been used by many investigators in controlled-release drug delivery systems because of their good tissue compatibility and easy manipulation of swelling level and, thereby, solute permeability. The desired kinetics, duration, and rate of solute release from hydrogels are limited to specific conditions, such as hydrogel properties, amount of incorporated drug, drug solubility, and drug–polymer interactions. This review summarizes the compositional and structural effects of polymers on swelling, loading, and release and approaches to characterize solute release behavior in a dynamic state. A new approach is introduced to compensate drug effects (solubility and loading) with the release kinetics by varying the structure of heterogeneous polymers. Modulated or pulsatile drug delivery using functional hydrogels is a recent trend in hydrogel drug delivery.
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Kim, S.W., Bae, Y.H. & Okano, T. Hydrogels: Swelling, Drug Loading, and Release. Pharm Res 9, 283–290 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015887213431
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