Multi-drug delivery based on polymer nano-scaffolds is an essential protocol to be developed for better administration of anticancer drugs to enhance their therapeutic efficacies against cancer cells. Here, we report dual delivery polysaccharide nano-vesicles that are capable of loading and delivering both water soluble and water insoluble drugs together in a single polymer scaffold. The select...

In recent years, utilization of chitosan /tripolyphosphate nanoparticles has been considered greatly as protein delivery vehicles. Effects of a variety of factors on final characteristics of nanoparticles have been studied by many investigators. Although, the objective of this study was to achieve smaller chitosan nano carriers via changing fabrication parameters such as pH and temperature and ...

carbamazepine belongs to the class ii biopharmaceutical classification system (bcs) which is characterized by a high per-oral dose, a low aqueous solubility and a high membrane permeability. the bioavailability of such a drug is limited by the dissolution rate. in order to increase the drug dissolution, its solid dispersions were prepared by the cogrinding technique using an insoluble but highl...

Lipids contain hydrocarbons and are the building blocks of cells. Lipids can naturally form themselves into nano-films and nano-structures, micelles, reverse micelles, and liposomes. Micelles or reverse micelles are monolayer structures, whereas liposomes are bilayer structures. Liposomes have been recognized as carriers for drug delivery. Solid lipid nanoparticles and lipoplex (liposome-polyca...

Various polymeric nanoparticles (NPs) with optimal size, tumor-targeting functionalization, or microenvironment sensitive characteristics have been designed to solve several limitations of conventional chemotherapy. Nano-sized polymeric drug carrier systems have remarkably great advantages in drug delivery and cancer therapy, which are still plagued with severe deficiencies, especially insuffic...

Y.H. Bae et al. (eds.), Cancer Targeted Drug Delivery: An Elusive Dream, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-7876-8_2, © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013 Abstract Drug delivery to solid tumors is one of the seminal challenges to developing more effective cancer therapies. A well-designed drug delivery system can potentially improve the effi cacy of a treatment by enhancing drug accumulation in ...

PURPOSE Nanostructured lipid carriers (NLC) represent an improved generation of lipid nanoparticles. They have specific nanostructures to accommodate drugs/genes, and thus achieve higher loading capacity. The aim of this study was to develop transferrin (Tf)-decorated NLC as multifunctional nanomedicine for co-delivery of paclitaxel (PTX) and enhanced green fluorescence protein plasmid. METHO...

Colloidal particles play an important role in various areas of material and pharmaceutical sciences, biotechnology, and biomedicine. In this overview we describe micro- and nano-particles used for the preparation of polyelectrolyte multilayer capsules and as drug delivery vehicles. An essential feature of polyelectrolyte multilayer capsule preparations is the ability to adsorb polymeric layers ...

Purpose: Exosomes are natural nanoparticles that participate in intercellular communication through molecular transport. Recently, due to their membrane vesicular structure and surface proteins, exosomes have been used extensively the research field of drug delivery. Osteoporosis is an inflammation which cellular balance bone tissue disturbed reduces density making prone abnormal fractures with...