Application of Controlled Release and Targeting Strategies to Nutraceutical Ingredients and Products
A special issue of Nutraceuticals (ISSN 1661-3821).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (9 October 2022) | Viewed by 2669
Special Issue Editor
Interests: drug delivery; nanomedicine; nanocarriers; biopolymers; pharmaceutical technology; ocular drug delivery; oral drug delivery
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Scientific research on food supplements and nutraceutical products is tracking the rapid growth of the related market. Many pharma companies are orienting part of their interest toward this area of health products, focusing on the great potentiality of natural compounds and on the recent discoveries of biological and biochemical studies on herbs and other natural sources.
To prompt such an alignment between market requests and scientifically sound research, in the most recent years, some delivery and targeting strategies, thus far applied to drugs and pharmaceutical compounds, have been proposed to also release, in a controlled or selective manner, natural bioactive molecules which are useful in the development of food-grade products.
This Special Issue aims to collect the most recent experiences and ideas in the application of controlled release approaches, including micro- and nanoencapsulation in lipid or polymeric biomaterials, to this wide area of health research.
Prof. Dr. Rosario Pignatello
Guest Editor
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Keywords
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nutraceuticals
- food supplements
- fortified food
- controlled release
- modified release
- targeting
- gut
- colon delivery
- biopolymers
- microencapsulation
- nanoparticles
- drug delivery
