scholarly journals Bioadhesive properties of β-limit dextrin

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 60 ◽  
Author(s):  
XIN QI ◽  
Richard F Tester
Keyword(s):  
Drug Delivery ◽  
Pharmaceutical Industry ◽  
Synthetic Polymers ◽  
Salivary Amylase ◽  
Delivery Methods ◽  
Internal Structures ◽  
Bioadhesive Polymers ◽  
Mouth Feel ◽  
Potential Use

Purpose. β-Limit dextrin has been studied for many years as a means to investigate the internal structures of amylose and amylopectin. However its role as an excipient in the pharmaceutical industry has never been reported. This paper is the first one in a series to explore its potential use as an excipient to aid drug delivery. Methods. The bioadhesive properties of β-limit dextrin were studied using a texture analyser and compared with two well-known bioadhesive polymers – carbopol and chitosan (as controls). Results. The β-limit dextrin has significant mucoadhesive properties; similar to carbopol but superior to chitosan. Conclusions. The nature of β-limit dextrin (a starch derivative) makes it safe to consume and provides a natural alternative when compared with synthetic polymers. In addition, the polysaccharide can be digested by salivary amylase and thus provide a clean mouth feel.

Recent Advances in Novasome Formulation Technology

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 2407-2411
Author(s):  
J M Shah ◽  
N.H Shah ◽  
Hadiya P D
Keyword(s):  
Drug Delivery ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Entrapment Efficiency ◽  
Bilayer Membrane ◽  
Water Soluble ◽  
Delivery Methods ◽  
Liposomal Drug ◽  
Pharmaceutical Technology ◽  
Insoluble Drugs ◽  
Novel Drug

Pharmaceutical technology has developed various newer modes of novel drug delivery aspects. Modifications in the previously existing drug delivery methods have led to various newly innovated technologies serving as a safe and effective means of improvement over the existing ones. Novasome technology is one of the new innovations of liposomes which have solved many of the problems related to liposomal drug delivery system. It offers a seven bilayer membrane which has the ability to incorporate both water soluble and insoluble drugs. It has an excellent entrapment efficiency which provides better medication. Formulation of novasomes is achieved in a high shear device. Due to its numerous advantages, novasomes have been used extensively in various fields like cosmetics, chemical, personal care, foods, pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals.

Potential Use of Nanomedicine for Drug Delivery Across the Blood-Brain Barrier in Healthy and Diseased Brain

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (9) ◽  
pp. 1079-1091 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Ruozi ◽  
Daniela Belletti ◽  
Francesca Pederzoli ◽  
Flavio Forni ◽  
Maria Angela Vandelli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Delivery ◽  
Blood Brain Barrier ◽  
Brain Barrier ◽  
Blood Brain ◽  
Potential Use

Delineating synchronized control of dynamic covalent and non-covalent interactions for polymer chain collapse towards cargo localization and delivery

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jojo P Joseph ◽  
Chirag Miglani ◽  
Aashish Bhatt ◽  
Debes Ray ◽  
Ashmeet Singh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Delivery ◽  
Polymer Chain ◽  
Structural Control ◽  
Synthetic Polymers ◽  
Folding Process ◽  
Non Covalent Interactions ◽  
Covalent Interactions ◽  
Synchronized Control

Chain collapse in synthetic polymers is an excellent approach to mimick natural self-folding process that imparts structural control leading to attractive compartmental applications e.g. drug delivery. In this regard, water...

scholarly journals Extracellular Vesicles-Based Drug Delivery Systems: A New Challenge and the Exemplum of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (15) ◽  
pp. 5432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Burgio ◽  
Leila Noori ◽  
Antonella Marino Gammazza ◽  
Claudia Campanella ◽  
Mariantonia Logozzi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Delivery ◽  
Early Diagnosis ◽  
Extracellular Vesicles ◽  
Delivery System ◽  
Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma ◽  
Cell Communication ◽  
Cell Types ◽  
Delivery Systems ◽  
Pleural Mesothelioma ◽  
Potential Use

Research for the most selective drug delivery to tumors represents a fascinating key target in science. Alongside the artificial delivery systems identified in the last decades (e.g., liposomes), a family of natural extracellular vesicles (EVs) has gained increasing focus for their potential use in delivering anticancer compounds. EVs are released by all cell types to mediate cell-to-cell communication both at the paracrine and the systemic levels, suggesting a role for them as an ideal nano-delivery system. Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) stands out among currently untreatable tumors, also due to the difficulties in achieving an early diagnosis. Thus, early diagnosis and treatment of MPM are both unmet clinical needs. This review looks at indirect and direct evidence that EVs may represent both a new tool for allowing an early diagnosis of MPM and a potential new delivery system for more efficient therapeutic strategies. Since MPM is a relatively rare malignant tumor and preclinical MPM models developed to date are very few and not reliable, this review will report data obtained in other tumor types, suggesting the potential use of EVs in mesothelioma patients as well.

scholarly journals The Use of Sonophoresis in the Administration of Drugs Throughout the Skin

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Juan Escobar-Chavez ◽  
Dalia Bonilla-Martínez ◽  
Martha Angélica Villegas-González ◽  
Isabel Marlen Rodríguez-Cruz ◽  
Clara Luisa Domínguez-Delgado
Keyword(s):  
Drug Delivery ◽  
Drug Release ◽  
Oral Administration ◽  
Transdermal Delivery ◽  
Transdermal Drug Delivery ◽  
Drug Delivery Systems ◽  
Medical Diagnostics ◽  
Attractive Alternative ◽  
Delivery Methods ◽  
Conventional Drug

Abstract Transdermal drug delivery offers an attractive alternative to the conventional drug delivery methods of oral administration and injection. However, the stratum corneum acts as a barrier that limits the penetration of substances through the skin. Application of ultrasound to the skin increases its permeability (sonophoresis) and enables the delivery of various substances into and through the skin. Ultrasound has been used extensively for medical diagnostics and to a certain extent in medical therapy (physiotherapy, ultrasonic surgery, hyperthermia). Nevertheless, it has only recently become popular as a technique to enhance drug release from drug delivery systems. A number of studies suggest the use of ultrasound as an external mean of delivering drugs at increased rates and at desired times. This review presents the main findings in the field of sonophoresis, namely transdermal drug delivery and transdermal monitoring. Particular attention is paid to proposed enhancement mechanisms and trends in the field of topical and transdermal delivery.

scholarly journals Role of Liposomes Composite as Drug Transport Mechanism

2021 ◽  
pp. 230-243
Keyword(s):  
Drug Delivery ◽  
Lipid Bilayers ◽  
Transport Mechanism ◽  
Drug Transport ◽  
Phospholipid Bilayer ◽  
Drug Transporter ◽  
Delivery Methods ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Novel Drug

Liposomes are spherical shaped vesicles comprising of at least one phospholipid bilayer that serve as a novel drug delivery framework. They are microscopic structures in which a fluid system is totally encased by a film made out of lipid bilayers. It varies in size, conformation, charge and drug transporter stacked with assortment of particles, for example, small molecules of drug, plasmids, nucleotides or proteins and so on. Ongoing advances in nanotherapeutics have brought about engineered liposomes rising in nanomedicine, giving better restorative control of diseased states. This has made ready for the improvement of second-stage liposomes for increased efficiency and could at last lead to a change in perspective from the regular drug delivery methods.

Liposome coated with low molecular weight chitosan and its potential use in ocular drug delivery

2009 ◽  
Vol 379 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ning Li ◽  
Chunyang Zhuang ◽  
Mi Wang ◽  
Xiyang Sun ◽  
Shufang Nie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Delivery ◽  
Molecular Weight ◽  
Ocular Drug Delivery ◽  
Low Molecular Weight ◽  
Low Molecular Weight Chitosan ◽  
Potential Use

scholarly journals Paclitaxel-loaded PLGA microspheres with a novel morphology to facilitate drug delivery and antitumor efficiency

RSC Advances ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 3274-3285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zongrui Zhang ◽  
Xinyu Wang ◽  
Binbin Li ◽  
Yuanjing Hou ◽  
Zhengwei Cai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Delivery ◽  
Drug Loading ◽  
Plga Microspheres ◽  
Internal Structures

A novel morphological PTX-PLGA-MS with microporous surface and porous internal structures to enhance drug loading, delivery and antitumor efficiency.

3D PRINTING OF PHARMACEUTICALS – LEADING TREND IN PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES

2020 ◽  
pp. 10-16
Author(s):  
SHANKHADIP NANDI
Keyword(s):  
Drug Delivery ◽  
Pharmaceutical Industry ◽  
3D Printing ◽  
Computer Aided Design ◽  
Release Kinetics ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Pharmaceutical Products ◽  
Dosage Forms ◽  
Fused Deposition

3D printing technology is a rapid prototyping process based on computer-aided design software that is proficient to construct solid objects with various geometrics by depositing numerous layers in a sequence. The major advantages of three-dimensional printing (3DP) technology over the traditional manufacturing of pharmaceuticals include the customization of medications with individually adjusted doses, on-demand tailored manufacturing, unprecedented flexibility in the design, manufacturing of complex and sophisticated solid dosage forms, and economic benefits. Recently, many researchers have been invested their efforts in applying 3DP technology to the pharmaceutical development of drug products and different drug delivery systems. Selective laser sintering, fused deposition modeling, semi-solid extrusion, stereolithography, etc., are the multiple 3DP technologies that can be established in several customized and programmable medicines. Sublingual, orodispersible, and fast-dissolving drug delivery formulations by 3DP technology have been already manufactured. Controlled-release formulations with different characteristics, doughnut-shaped multi-layered tablets with linear release kinetics, and drug-loaded tablets with modified-release characteristics are recently fabricated using 3DP. However, few 3DP methods produce uneven shapes of dosage forms and comparatively porous structures. Cost of transition, adaptation to the existing facility, achieving regulatory approval, etc., are the present challenges that can restrict the extensive application of 3DP technology to pharmaceutical products. Intense research work for modifying the 3DP methods is simultaneously sustained for by-passing the flaws and current limitations of this technology. 3DP technology can act as a convenient and potential tool for the pharmaceutical industry which will set a revolutionary manufacturing style in the near future to facilitate patient-centered health care.

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