Abstract The aim was to produce PEG-coated nanoparticles (NP-PEG), with mucus-permeating properties, for oral drug delivery purposes by using simple procedures and regulatory-approved compounds in order facilitate a potential clinical development. For this purpose, zein were prepared desolvation and, then, coated incubation PEG 35,000. resulting nanocarriers displayed mean size of about 200 nm ...

the purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of polyethylene glycol (peg) molecular weights (6000, 12000 and 20000) as solid dispersion (sd) carriers on the dissolution behavior of simvastatin. sds with various drug : carrier ratios were prepared by solvent method and evaluated for dissolution rate. differential scanning calorimetry (dsc), x-ray diffraction (xrd), infrared spe...

Precisely controlling the spatial distribution of biomolecules on biomaterial surface is important for directing cellular activities in the controlled cell microenvironment. This paper describes a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) gradient-generating microfluidic device to immobilize the gradient of cellular adhesive Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD) peptide on poly (ethylene glycol) (PEG) hydrogel. Hydrogels are fo...

In this work, a peptide for ocular delivery (POD) and human immunodeficiency virus transactivator were conjugated with biodegradable poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PGLA)-polyethylene glycol (PEG)-nanoparticles (NPs) in an attempt to improve ocular drug bioavailability. The NPs were prepared by the solvent displacement method following two different pathways. One involved preparation of PLGA NPs...

for replacement of a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube. He had originally undergone PEG tube placement at our hospital 2 years ago, and after insertion the position of the hub had been checked by gastroscopy. However, placement of the most recent PEG tube had been done at another hospital 1 year ago, with no gastroscopic evaluation. When the patient attended our hospital 1 year lat...

Sensitive quantification of the pharmacokinetics of poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) and PEGylated molecules is critical for PEGylated drug development. Here, we developed a sensitive sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for PEG by tethering an anti-PEG antibody (AGP3) via tethers with different dimensions on the surface of 293T cells (293T/S-αPEG, short-type cells; 293T/L-αPEG, long-t...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Two types of peginterferon, alpha-2a (PEG-IFN-α2a) and 2b (PEG-IFN-α2b), are approved for the treatment of hepatitis C infection. Several high-quality studies have compared the efficacy of these two types of interferon, but it seems that any of these trials had inadequate statistical power on their own to find even a tiny difference between these two medicines. We pooled the...

Objective: The study aimed to solubilization of imidazole drugs of interest; ketoconazole (KT) and miconazole nitrate (MN), for enhancement of the water solubility, the dissolution properties and the antimycotic activity of these drugs. Method: Different solid dispersion methods were used to prepare various dispersion systems of KT and MN using polyethylene glycol 4000 (PEG 4000), polyethylene ...