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Pharmaceutics, Volume 12, Issue 8

August 2020 - 92 articles

Cover Story: A modularized product design concept is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The concept comprises combinations of modules, with unique drug release functionalities that are independent of dose and dosage form size. An increased variety of drug release profiles can thereby be designed into dosage forms through the reconfigurable assembly of only a limited number of standardized modules. Accordingly, the modularized product design promotes patient access to affordable individualized therapies. View this paper.
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Articles (92)

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,333 Views
23 Pages

Bioreactor-Grown Bacillus of Calmette and Guérin (BCG) Vaccine Protects Badgers against Virulent Mycobacterium bovis When Administered Orally: Identifying Limitations in Baited Vaccine Delivery

  • Sandrine Lesellier,
  • Colin P. D. Birch,
  • Dipesh Davé,
  • Deanna Dalley,
  • Sonya Gowtage,
  • Simonette Palmer,
  • Claire McKenna,
  • Gareth A. Williams,
  • Roland Ashford and
  • Ute Weyer
  • + 11 authors

Bovine tuberculosis (TB) in Great Britain adversely affects animal health and welfare and is a cause of considerable economic loss. The situation is exacerbated by European badgers (Meles meles) acting as a wildlife source of recurrent Mycobacterium...

  • Review
  • Open Access
45 Citations
8,061 Views
17 Pages

Uniting Drug and Delivery: Metal Oxide Hybrid Nanotherapeutics for Skin Wound Care

  • Martin T. Matter,
  • Sebastian Probst,
  • Severin Läuchli and
  • Inge K. Herrmann

Wound care and soft tissue repair have been a major human concern for millennia. Despite considerable advancements in standards of living and medical abilities, difficult-to-heal wounds remain a major burden for patients, clinicians and the healthcar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,532 Views
20 Pages

Hot-Melt Extrusion as an Advantageous Technology to Obtain Effervescent Drug Products

  • Ana Luiza Lima,
  • Ludmila A. G. Pinho,
  • Juliano A. Chaker,
  • Livia L. Sa-Barreto,
  • Ricardo Neves Marreto,
  • Tais Gratieri,
  • Guilherme M. Gelfuso and
  • Marcilio Cunha-Filho

Here, we assessed the feasibility of hot-melt extrusion (HME) to obtain effervescent drug products for the first time. For this, a combined mixture design was employed using paracetamol as a model drug. Extrudates were obtained under reduced torque (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
10,537 Views
18 Pages

Stability of Ophthalmic Atropine Solutions for Child Myopia Control

  • Baptiste Berton,
  • Philip Chennell,
  • Mouloud Yessaad,
  • Yassine Bouattour,
  • Mireille Jouannet,
  • Mathieu Wasiak and
  • Valérie Sautou

Myopia is an ophthalmic condition affecting more than 1/5th of the world population, especially children. Low-dose atropine eyedrops have been shown to limit myopia evolution during treatment. However, there are currently no commercial industrial for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,527 Views
17 Pages

Pancreatic cancer is one of the highest causes of mortality throughout the world; thus, it requires an effective treatment strategy. Some chemotherapeutic agents used in the clinics or under clinical trials are hydrophobic and have poor aqueous solub...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,414 Views
16 Pages

(1) Background: It is common practice in the treatment of respiratory diseases to mix different inhalation solutions for simultaneous inhalation. At present, a small number of studies have been published that evaluate the physicochemical compatibilit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,316 Views
17 Pages

Spontaneous In Situ Formation of Liposomes from Inert Porous Microparticles for Oral Drug Delivery

  • Maryam Farzan,
  • Gabriela Québatte,
  • Katrin Strittmatter,
  • Florentine Marianne Hilty,
  • Joachim Schoelkopf,
  • Jörg Huwyler and
  • Maxim Puchkov

Despite the wide-spread use of liposomal drug delivery systems, application of these systems for oral purposes is limited due to their large-scale formulation and storage issues. Proliposomes are one of the formulation approaches for achieving solid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,700 Views
15 Pages

Hybrid Pectin-Liposome Formulation against Multi-Resistant Bacterial Strains

  • Lígia Nunes de Morais Ribeiro,
  • Eneida de Paula,
  • Daise Aparecida Rossi,
  • Guilherme Paz Monteiro,
  • Edson Campos Valadares Júnior,
  • Rogério Reis Silva,
  • Rodrigo Rodrigues Franco,
  • Foued Salmen Espíndola,
  • Luiz Ricardo Goulart and
  • Belchiolina Beatriz Fonseca

This work describes the development of a gastroresistant antimicrobial formulation composed of two carriers, pectin and liposomes, intended to improve the efficiency of norfloxacin (NOR) against multi-resistant bacterial strains. The formulations sho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,475 Views
20 Pages

Novel birch bark dry extract (TE)-loaded polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fiber mats intended for wound therapy were developed through an electrospinning process. Colloidal dispersions containing TE as the active substance were prepared by the high-pressure h...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,630 Views
24 Pages

Independent Tailoring of Dose and Drug Release via a Modularized Product Design Concept for Mass Customization

  • Rydvikha Govender,
  • Susanna Abrahmsén-Alami,
  • Anette Larsson,
  • Anders Borde,
  • Alexander Liljeblad and
  • Staffan Folestad

Independent individualization of multiple product attributes, such as dose and drug release, is a crucial overarching requirement of pharmaceutical products for individualized therapy as is the unified integration of individualized product design wit...

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