Stimuli-responsive polymeric nanocarriers for the controlled transport of active compounds: concepts and applications.

The use of polymeric nanocarriers to transport active compounds like small-molecular drugs, peptides, or genes found an increased attention throughout the different fields of natural sciences. Not only that these nanocarriers enhance the properties of already existing drugs in terms of solubility, bioavailability, and prolonged circulation times, furthermore they can be tailor-made in such a manner that they selectively release their cargo at the desired site of action. For the triggered release, these so-called smart drug delivery systems are designed to react on certain stimuli like pH, temperature, redox potential, enzymes, light, and ultrasound. Some of these stimuli are naturally occurring in vivo, for example the difference in pH in different cellular compartments while others are caused by the disease, which is to be treated, like differences in pH and temperature in some tumor tissues. Other external applied stimuli, like light and ultrasound, allow the temporal and spatial control of the release, since they are not triggered by any biological event. This review gives a brief overview about some types of stimuli-responsive nanocarriers with the main focus on organic polymer-based systems. Furthermore, the different stimuli and the design of corresponding responsive nanocarriers will be discussed with the help of selected examples from the literature.

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