Correction to: Alginate-based hydrogels as drug delivery vehicles in cancer treatment and their applications in wound dressing and 3D bioprinting.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1186/s13036-020-0227-7.].

Alginate-based hydrogels as drug delivery vehicles in cancer treatment and their applications in wound dressing and 3D bioprinting.

Hydrogels are a three-dimensional and crosslinked network of hydrophilic polymers. They can absorb a large amount of water or biological fluids, which leads to their swelling while maintaining their 3D structure without dissolving (Zhu and Marchant, Expert Rev Med Devices 8:607-626, 2011). Among the numerous polymers which have been utilized for the preparation of the hydrogels, polysaccharides have gained more attention in the area of pharmaceutics; Sodium alginate is a non-toxic, biocompatible, and biodegradable polysaccharide with several unique physicochemical properties for which has used as delivery vehicles for drugs (Kumar Giri et al., Curr Drug Deliv 9:539-555, 2012). Owing to their high-water content and resembling the natural soft tissue, hydrogels were studied a lot as a scaffold. The formation of hydrogels can occur by interactions of the anionic alginates with multivalent inorganic cations through a typical ionotropic gelation method. However, those applications require the control of some properties such as mechanical stiffness, swelling, degradation, cell attachment, and binding or release of bioactive molecules by using the chemical or physical modifications of the alginate hydrogel. In the current review, an overview of alginate hydrogels and their properties will be presented as well as the methods of producing alginate hydrogels. In the next section of the present review paper, the application of the alginate hydrogels will be defined as drug delivery vehicles for chemotherapeutic agents. The recent advances in the application of the alginate-based hydrogels will be describe later as a wound dressing and bioink in 3D bioprinting.

Novel drug delivery system based on doxorubicin-encapsulated magnetic nanoparticles modified with PLGA-PEG1000 copolymer.

New drug delivery systems delivered the active molecules to the target site in a definite manner to produce the desired effects without disturbing the delicate bio-environment. The Fe3O4 magnetic nanoparticles were prepared by chemical precipitation of Fe salts in the ratio of 1:2 under alkaline and inert condition. PLGA-PEG1000 triblock copolymer was synthesized by ring-opening polymerization. The properties of this copolymer were characterized using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. In addition, the resulting particles were characterized by X-ray powder diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, and vibrating sample magnetometry. The in vitro doxorubicin (DOX) release profiles were obtained by representing the percentage of DOX release. In this report, we used this new method to fabricate PEGylated PLGA particles, and examined the anticancer agent DOX.