title: [Application research on dextran-based hydrogel and its drug controlled release].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To introduce the development of dextran-based hydrogel and its drug delivery system in drug sustained and/or controlled release, and to investigate their application in tissue engineering.
  
  
  METHODS
  Related literature was extensively reviewed and comprehensively analyzed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In recent years, great progress was made in the studies of dextran-based hydrogels and study on dextran-based intelligent materials became an investigative hotspot especially in tissue engineering.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Dextran-based hydrogel is considered to be a good potential material in field of drug delivery and tissue engineering. Endowed with new characteristics, a series of intelligent biomaterials can be derived from dextran-based hydrogels, which can be widely used in biomedicine. Further study should be done on the industrialization of its interrelated production.
authors.affiliation: Center Laboratory for Tissue Engineering, College of Stomatology, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an Shaanxi, 710032, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Faming
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Zhifen
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jin
mesh_terms: D020341:Absorbable Implants; D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D003911:Dextrans; D004337:Drug Carriers; D016503:Drug Delivery Systems; D020100:Hydrogels; D023822:Tissue Engineering
chemical_list: D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D003911:Dextrans; D004337:Drug Carriers; D020100:Hydrogels