NANOPARTICLE A TARGETED DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM: AN OVERVIEW

Computational Modeling of Nanoparticle Targeted Drug Delivery

Nanomedicine is a promising application of nanotechnology in medicine, which can drastically improve drug delivery efficiency through targeted delivery. However, characterization of the nanoparticle targeted delivery process under vascular environment is very challenging due to the small scale of nanoparticles and the complex in vivo vascular system. To understand such complicated system, vario...

Pulsatile Drug Delivery System: An Overview

Pulsatile drug delivery systems (PDDS) are gaining importance as they deliver a drug at specific time as per the pathophysiological need of the disease, resulting in improved therapeutic efficacy as well as compliance. Diseases wherein PDDS are promising include asthma, peptic ulcer, cardiovascular diseases, arthritis, attention deficit syndrome in children, and hypercholesterolemia. These deli...

Advances in Targeted Drug Delivery

Mucoadhesive drug delivery system: An overview

Mucoadhesive drug delivery systems interact with the mucus layer covering the mucosal epithelial surface, and mucin molecules and increase the residence time of the dosage form at the site of absorption. The drugs which have local action or those which have maximum absorption in gastrointestinal tract (GIT) require increased duration of stay in GIT. Thus, mucoadhesive dosage forms are advantage...

Floating Drug Delivery System: An Overview

Gastric emptying is a complex process and makes in vivo performance of the drug delivery systems uncertain. In order to avoid this variability, efforts have been made to increase the retention time of the drug-delivery systems for more than 12 hours. The floating or hydrodynamically controlled drug delivery systems are useful in such application. From the formulation and technological point of ...