nanodrugs and natural pharmaceutical products

Nanodrugs and Natural Pharmaceutical Products

To consider the application of naturally occurring materials in novel drug delivery systems and advancements of nanotech-nology in formulating natural pharmaceutical products. Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences (AJUMS) officiated as host to the second nanodrugs congress on March 2012, which was held by nanotechnology research center of AJUMS in cooperation with Shahid Chamran University...

Toxic Element Contamination of Natural Health Products and Pharmaceutical Preparations

BACKGROUND Concern has recently emerged regarding the safety of natural health products (NHPs)-therapies that are increasingly recommended by various health providers, including conventional physicians. Recognizing that most individuals in the Western world now consume vitamins and many take herbal agents, this study endeavored to determine levels of toxic element contamination within a range o...

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Nanodrugs: pharmacokinetics and safety

To date, various nanodrug systems have been developed for different routes of administration, which include dendrimers, nanocrystals, emulsions, liposomes, solid lipid nanoparticles, micelles, and polymeric nanoparticles. Nanodrug systems have been employed to improve the efficacy, safety, physicochemical properties, and pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic profile of pharmaceutical substances. In p...

Antimalarial natural products: a review

Objective: Malaria is an infectious disease commonplace in tropical countries. For many years, major antimalarial drugs consisted of natural products, but since 1930s these drugs have been largely replaced with a series of synthetic drugs. This article tries to briefly indicate that some plants which previously were used to treat malaria, as a result of deficiencies of synthetic drugs, have rev...