scholarly journals Inflammatory Lesions: Cyclic Arginine–Glycine–Aspartate‐Decorated Lipid Nanoparticle Targeting toward Inflammatory Lesions Involves Hitchhiking with Phagocytes (Adv. Sci. 13/2021)

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (13) ◽  
pp. 2170077
Author(s):  
Alexandros Marios Sofias ◽  
Geir Bjørkøy ◽  
Jordi Ochando ◽  
Linda Sønstevold ◽  
Maria Hegvik ◽  
...  
2021 ◽  
pp. 2100370
Author(s):  
Alexandros Marios Sofias ◽  
Geir Bjørkøy ◽  
Jordi Ochando ◽  
Linda Sønstevold ◽  
Maria Hegvik ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Hannah R. Brown ◽  
Anthony F. Nostro ◽  
Halldor Thormar

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is a slowly progressing disease of the CNS in children which is caused by measles virus. Ferrets immunized with measles virus prior to inoculation with the cell associated, syncytiogenic D.R. strain of SSPE virus exhibit characteristics very similar to the human disease. Measles virus nucleocapsids are present, high measles antibody titers are found in the sera and inflammatory lesions are prominent in the brains. Measles virus specific immunoglobulin G (IgG) is present in the brain,and IgG/ albumin ratios indicate that the antibodies are synthesized within the CNS.


Author(s):  
Poovi Ganesan ◽  
N Damodharan

Background: A better understanding of the biopharmaceutical and physicochemical properties of drugs and the pharmaco-technical factors would be of great help for developing pharmaceutical products. But, it is extremely difficult to study the effect of each variable and interaction among them through the conventional approach Objective: To screen the most influential factors affecting the particle size (PS) of lipid nanoparticle (LNPs) (solid lipid nanoparticle (SLN) and nanostructured lipid carrier (NLC)) for poorly water-soluble BCS class-II drug like tamoxifen (TMX) to improve its oral bioavailability and to reduce its toxicity to tolerable limits using Taguchi (L12 (2 11)) orthogonal array design by applying computer optimization technique. Results: The size of all LNPs formulations prepared as per the experimental design varied between 172 nm and 3880 μm, polydispersity index between 0.033 and 1.00, encapsulation efficiency between 70.8% and 75.7%, and drug loading between 5.84% and 9.68%. The study showed spherical and non-spherical as well as aggregated and non-aggregated LNPs. Besides, it showed no interaction and amorphous form of the drug in LNPs formulation. The Blank NLCs exhibited no cytotoxicity on MCF-7 cells as compared to TMX solution, SLNs (F5) and NLCs (F12) suggests that the cause of cell death is primarily from the effect of TMX present in NLCs. Conclusions: The screening study clearly showed the importance of different individual factors significant effect for the LNPs formulation development and its overall performance in an in-vitro study with minimum experimentation thus saving considerable time, efforts, and resources for further in-depth study.


Nano Letters ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uri Elia ◽  
Shahar Rotem ◽  
Erez Bar-Haim ◽  
Srinivas Ramishetti ◽  
Gonna Somu Naidu ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 65-72
Author(s):  
Botond Z Igyártó ◽  
Sonya Jacobsen ◽  
Sonia Ndeupen

2021 ◽  
Vol 1863 (8) ◽  
pp. 183627
Author(s):  
Kyoka Koitabashi ◽  
Hiroki Nagumo ◽  
Mizuka Nakao ◽  
Tomoko Machida ◽  
Kohki Yoshida ◽  
...  

Small ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 2103025
Author(s):  
Roy Meel ◽  
Sam Chen ◽  
Josh Zaifman ◽  
Jayesh A. Kulkarni ◽  
Xu Ran S. Zhang ◽  
...  

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