Significance of Particulate Drug Delivery System in Anti-microbial Therapy

Significance of Particulate Drug Delivery System in Anti-microbial Therapy

Antimicrobial agents are the substances, used to kills or inhibit the growth of pathogenic microorganisms in living things. Several antimicrobial therapeutic agents have been exploited to treat infectious diseases caused by pathogenic microbes such as bacteria, fungi and viruses. These agents differ in their physicochemical, pharmacological properties and in their mechanisms of action. Typicall...

Significance of Polymers in Drug Delivery System

In the recent past, there has been advancement in state-of-the-art therapies utilizing biopharmaceuticals, like proteins, peptides, nucleic acids and bioactive molecules, as therapeutics for diagnosing diseases. These novel drugs require refined drug delivery system which can be used to improve their pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamic properties as well as enhance cell/tissue specificity and ...

particulate drug delivery systems in dermal applications

Role of Nanodiamonds in Drug Delivery and Stem Cell Therapy

Context: The use of nanotechnology in medicine and more specifically drug delivery is set to spread rapidly. Currently many substances are under investigation for drug delivery and more specifically for cancer therapy. Evidence Acquisition: Nanodiamonds (NDs) have contributed significantly in the development of highly efficient and successful drug delivery systems, and in stem cell therapy. Dru...

Nano-Hydroxyapatite-Derived Drug and Gene Co-Delivery System for Anti-Angiogenesis Therapy of Breast Cancer

BACKGROUND Breast cancer is among the deadliest cancers across the world and is responsible for countless deaths. There is an urgent need for co-delivery systems which can simultaneously transport both drug and gene into a single cancer cell with low toxicity and high anti-angiogenesis efficiency. MATERIAL AND METHODS In the present study, well-formed amine-functionalized hydroxyapatite nanopar...