“…In this context functionalized hydrogels have been examined both for glucose monitoring Kabilan et al, 2004;Miyata et al, 2004) and insulin delivery (Ende and Peppas, 1997;Traitel et al, 2000). For glucose detection mediated by hydrogels, three major strategies have been employed by incorporation of: (1) glucose-oxidase (Jung et al, 2000;Podual et al, 2000), (2) boronic acids Asher et al, 2003;Hisamitsu et al, 1997;Horgan et al, 2006;Matsumoto et al, 2003) or (3) concavalin A (Kim and Park, 2001;Miyata et al, 2004) into hydrogels.…”