Drug delivery system for an anticancer agent, chlorogenate-Zn/Al-layered double hydroxide nanohybrid synthesised using direct co-precipitation and ion exchange methods

• Main Authors: Barahuie, Farahnaz, Hussein, Mohd Zobir, Arulselvan, Palanisamy, Fakurazi, Sharida, Zainal, Zulkarnain
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2014
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/37163/1/Drug%20delivery%20system%20for%20an%20anticancer%20agent.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/37163/; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022459614001728

A nano-structured drug-inorganic clay hybrid involving an active anticancer compound, which is chlorogenic acid (CA) intercalated into Zn/Al-layered double hydroxide, has been assembled via ion-exchange and co-precipitation methods to form a nanohybrid CZAE (a chlorogenic acid-Zn/Al nanohybrid synth...