Controlled Release of Dexamethasone from Fibrin Mixed with Biphasic Calcium Phosphate Bioceramics

Abstracts of the Riga Technical University 53rd International Scientific Conference: Dedicated to the 150th Anniversary and the 1st Congress of World Engineers and Riga Polytechnical Institute / RTU Alumni: Section: Material Science and Applied Chemistry 2012
Arita Dubņika, Ilze Šalma, Dagnija Loča, Līga Bērziņa-Cimdiņa

Targeted drug delivery systems are used to minimize the adverse effects of the pharmaceutical agents while maintaining the high local drug concentrations. Composite material containing CaP and drugs would provide bone regeneration and site specific drug delivery. Physical, chemical and biological properties of both CaP and fibrin sealants may be cumulated for preparing advanced bone substitutes.

Keywords
Hydroxyapatite, plasma, fibrin, dexamethasone, drug delivery

Dubņika, A., Šalma, I., Loča, D., Bērziņa-Cimdiņa, L. Controlled Release of Dexamethasone from Fibrin Mixed with Biphasic Calcium Phosphate Bioceramics. In: Abstracts of the Riga Technical University 53rd International Scientific Conference: Dedicated to the 150th Anniversary and the 1st Congress of World Engineers and Riga Polytechnical Institute / RTU Alumni: Section: Material Science and Applied Chemistry, Latvia, Riga, 11-12 October, 2012. Riga: RTU Publishing House, 2012, pp.88-88. ISBN 978-9934-10-357-5.

Publication language
English (en)