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Polylacticcoglycolic acid – PLGA
Microneedle array patches for sustained delivery of fluphenazine: A micron scale approach for the…
Schizophrenia is a severe chronic mental illness characterised by impaired emotional and cognitive functioning. To treat this condition, antipsychotics are available in limited dosage forms, mainly oral and injectable formulations. Although injectable antipsychotics were designed to enhance…
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Solid implantable devices for sustained drug delivery
Implantable drug delivery systems (IDDS) are an attractive alternative to conventional drug administration routes. Oral and injectable drug administration are the most common routes for drug delivery providing peaks of drug concentrations in blood after administration followed by concentration decay…
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Microneedles for Enhanced Topical Treatment of Skin Disorders: Applications, Challenges, and…
Microneedles (MNs) can be used for the topical treatment of skin disorders as they directly deliver therapeutics to the site of skin lesions, resulting in increased therapeutic efficacy while having minimum side effects. MNs are used to deliver different kinds of therapeutics (e.g., small molecules,…
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PLGA – A versatile copolymer for design and development of nanoparticles for drug delivery
Introduction
Poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid) or PLGA, a highly hydrophobic copolymer comprised of lactic acid and glycolic acid, has been approved in many drug products and medical devices.1 Over the years since the first approved in 1997, PLGA has been widely studied polymer in the industry because…
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Core-Shell Structured PLGA Particles Having Highly Controllable Ketoprofen Drug Release
The non-steroid anti-inflammatory drug ketoprofen (KP) as a model molecule is encapsulated in different poly(lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA) nanostructured particles, using Tween20 (TWEEN) and Pluronic F127 (PLUR) as stabilizers to demonstrate the design of a biocompatible colloidal carrier particles…
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Investigating structural attributes of drug encapsulated microspheres with quantitative X-ray…
The intra-sphere and inter-sphere structural attributes of controlled release microsphere drug products can greatly impact their release profile and clinical performance. In developing a robust and efficient method to characterize the structure of microsphere drug products, this paper proposes X-ray…
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Long-acting Parenteral Drug Delivery Systems for the Treatment of Chronic Diseases
Abstract
The management of chronic conditions often requires patients to take daily medication for an extended duration. However, the need for daily dosing can lead to nonadherence to the therapy, which can result in the recurrence of the disease. Long-acting parenteral drug delivery systems have…
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Long-acting PLGA microspheres: advances in excipient and product analysis toward improved product…
Abstract
Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) microspheres are a sustained-release drug delivery system with several successful commercial products used for the treatment of a variety of diseases. By utilizing PLGA polymers with different compositions, therapeutic agents can be released over…
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Preparation of Melatonin Nanoparticles and their Enhancement of Lungs Bioavailability in the…
Background: To develop a first-time-novel polymeric NPs from PLGA and their coating by Chitosan (CS) of Melatonin (MT) for the enhancement of lungs bioavailability by targeting lungs from the nose.
Materials and Methods: The Melatonin LC-MS/MS method was developed for the first time for a…
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Encapsulation of Morin in Lipid Core/PLGA Shell Nanoparticles Significantly Enhances its…
Morin (3,5,7,2′,4′-pentahydroxyflavone; MR) is a bioactive plant polyphenol whose therapeutic efficacy is hindered by its poor biopharmaceutical properties. The purpose of this study was to develop a nanoparticle (NP) formulation to enhance the bioactivity and oral bioavailability of MR. The…
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