Light-triggered release of conventional local anesthetics from a macromolecular prodrug for on-demand local anesthesia
Local anesthetic sustained release systems suffer from untriggered rapid drug release upon application. Here the authors overcome this issue by covalently linking tetracaine to a polymer gel via a photo-cleavable linkage, enabling light-triggered and repeatable drug release.
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2020-05-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16177-w |