A mussel-inspired film for adhesion to wet buccal tissue and efficient buccal drug delivery

Buccal Drug Delivery System

The buccal mucosa lines the inner cheek, and buccal formulations are placed in the mouth between the upper gingivae (gums) and cheek to treat local and systemic conditions. The buccal route provides one of the potential route for typically large, hydrophilic and unstable proteins, oligonucleotides and polysaccharides, as well as conventional small drug molecules. The oral cavity has been used a...

Novel Aproaches - Mucoadhesive Buccal Drug Delivery System

Among novel drug delivery systems, Buccal mucoadhesive systems have attracted great attention in recent years due to their ability to adhere and remain on the oral mucosa and to release their drug content gradually. Mucoadhesion may be defined as the process where polymers attach to biological substrate or a synthetic or natural macromolecule, to mucus or an epithelial surface. Buccal mucoadhes...

Enalapril Maleate Loaded Pullulan Film for Mucoadhesive Buccal Drug Delivery Applications

Pullulan, a water soluble, bioadhesive and biocompatible biopolymer is used as an efficient matrix for enalapril maleate film preparation. The obtained film contains as much as 67% of enalapril maleate, relative to the initial amount used for experiments. The drug content was evaluated by using 1 H-NMR and UV-vis spectroscopy. The pullulanenalaprilmaleate blends exhibit good physicochemical pro...

Drug Delivery via the Buccal Patch – a Novel Aproach

A Comprehensive Review on Buccal Drug Delivery System

Bioadhesion can be defined as a phenomenon of interfacial molecular attractive forces in the midst of the surfaces of biological substrate and the natural or synthetic polymers, which allows the polymer to adhere to biological surface for an extended period of time. Within the oral mucosal cavity, the buccal region offers an adorable route of administration for systemic drug delivery. Among the...