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Inulin-based carriers for colon drug targeting
Inulin is a heterogeneous green polysaccharide obtained from natural sources. It is found in a variety of regularly eaten vegetables, fruits, cereals, and in their roots and rhizomes including onion, leek, wheat, garlic, dahlia, asparagus, banana, chicory, etc. It has been approved by the United…
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Natural gum polysaccharides as efficient tissue engineering and drug delivery biopolymers
The usage of plant origin natural gum polysaccharides in various biomedical applications is steadily rising in recent years because of their peculiar properties like biocompatibility, biodegradability, cytocompatibility and with no eliciting of immune response. The natural gums were used in various…
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Towards the Prevention of Coronavirus Infection: What Role Can Polymers Play?
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome associated coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused a global public health crisis with high rates of infection and mortality. Treatment and prevention approaches include vaccine development, the design of small molecule antiviral drugs and macromolecular neutralizing…
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Highway to Success – Developing Advanced Polymer Therapeutics
Polymer therapeutics are advancing as an important class of drugs. Polymers have already demonstrated their value in extending the half‐life of proteins. They show great potential as delivery systems for improving the therapeutic index of drugs, via biophysical targeting and more recently with more…
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Exploring the Interplay between Drug Release and Targeting of Lipid-Like Polymer Nanoparticles…
Targeted delivery of doxorubicin still poses a challenge with regards to the quantities reaching the target site as well as the specificity of the uptake. In the present approach, two colloidal nanocarrier systems, NanoCore-6.4 and NanoCore-7.4, loaded with doxorubicin and characterized by different…
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Biopolymer-based nanoparticles with tunable mucoadhesivity efficiently deliver therapeutics across…
To overcome the natural barriers of the ocular system that limit the topical delivery of therapeutically active molecules to the posterior eye, nanoscale drug carriers can be used to improve transcorneal drug transport. So far, using mucoadhesive drug carriers has been put forward as the most…
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Nanocellulose: Biomedical Nanomaterial Applications
Cellulose is a natural linear biopolymer, which is constituted of an assembly of cellulose nanofibrils in a hierarchical order. Nanocelluloses in particular show great promise as a cost-effective advanced material for biomedical applications because of their biocompatibility,…
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Tragacanth as an oral peptide and protein delivery carrier: characterization and mucoadhesion
08. February 2016
Biopolymers such as tragacanth, an anionic polysaccharide gum, can be alternative polymeric carrier for physiologically important peptides and proteins. Characterization of tragacanth is thus essential for providing a foundation for possible applications.…
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