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Abstract In the present work, three-dimensional drug carriers were synthesized via chemical modification of poly (glycidyl methacrylate-alt-maleic anhydride) P(GMA-alt-MA) by isopropylamine (IPA) and ethylenediamine (EDA) with different molar ratios. Then furosemide drug (FR) was loaded on the hydrogels and studied for its slow release in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) solution (pH = 7.41) at 37 °C. According to the obtained results, the sample with the lowest amount of crosslinking agent (Sample A) showed the highest swelling ratio in comparison to the others. By increasing the rigidity of carrier in the result of increasing the crosslinker density, the amount of the released drug was decreased. However, the release rate for all of samples (slope of the profiles) were rather similar. All the synthesized carriers have shown pH dependent properties and the maximum release rate was shown in basic pH. Also, the drug release experiments in different temperatures showed almost thermal sensitivity properties for synthesized carriers and release rate become faster by increasing the medium temperature. The FT-IR, TGA, and FE-SEM analyses were carried out for characterization of prepared samples and the swelling behavior of prepared hydrogels were measured too. Investigation of the release data with different mathematical models showed the highest adaption with the Higuchi model for all samples.