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Pharmaceutics, Volume 8, Issue 2

2016 June - 10 articles

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Articles (10)

  • Review
  • Open Access
167 Citations
13,264 Views
26 Pages

Biofilm targeting represents a great challenge for effective antimicrobial therapy. Increased biofilm resistance, even with the elevated concentrations of very potent antimicrobial agents, often leads to failed therapeutic outcome. Application of bio...

  • Review
  • Open Access
198 Citations
16,197 Views
35 Pages

Preparation of drug nanoparticles via wet media milling (nanomilling) is a very versatile drug delivery platform and is suitable for oral, injectable, inhalable, and buccal applications. Wet media milling followed by various drying processes has beco...

  • Review
  • Open Access
242 Citations
20,548 Views
18 Pages

Stabilizing Agents for Drug Nanocrystals: Effect on Bioavailability

  • Annika Tuomela,
  • Jouni Hirvonen and
  • Leena Peltonen

Drug nanocrystals are a versatile option for drug delivery purposes, and while the number of poorly soluble drug materials is all the time increasing, more research in this area is performed. Drug nanocrystals have a simple structure—a solid drug cor...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
11,961 Views
24 Pages

Challenges, Solutions, and Quality Metrics of Personal Genome Assembly in Advancing Precision Medicine

  • Wenming Xiao,
  • Leihong Wu,
  • Gokhan Yavas,
  • Vahan Simonyan,
  • Baitang Ning and
  • Huixiao Hong

Even though each of us shares more than 99% of the DNA sequences in our genome, there are millions of sequence codes or structure in small regions that differ between individuals, giving us different characteristics of appearance or responsiveness to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
10,114 Views
16 Pages

Human eye is one of the most accessible organs in the body, nonetheless, its physiology and associated precorneal factors such as nasolacrimal drainage, blinking, tear film, tear turnover, and induced lacrimation has significantly decreased the resid...

  • Feature Paper
  • Communication
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,660 Views
12 Pages

Turning Waste into Value: Nanosized Natural Plant Materials of Solanum incanum L. and Pterocarpus erinaceus Poir with Promising Antimicrobial Activities

  • Sharoon Griffin,
  • Nassifatou Koko Tittikpina,
  • Adel Al-marby,
  • Reem Alkhayer,
  • Polina Denezhkin,
  • Karolina Witek,
  • Koffi Apeti Gbogbo,
  • Komlan Batawila,
  • Raphaël Emmanuel Duval and
  • Claus Jacob
  • + 7 authors

Numerous plants are known to exhibit considerable biological activities in the fields of medicine and agriculture, yet access to their active ingredients is often complicated, cumbersome and expensive. As a consequence, many plants harbouring potenti...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
12,420 Views
18 Pages

Timing of Administration: For Commonly-Prescribed Medicines in Australia

  • Gagandeep Kaur,
  • Craig L. Phillips,
  • Keith Wong,
  • Andrew J. McLachlan and
  • Bandana Saini

Chronotherapy involves the administration of medication in coordination with the body’s circadian rhythms to maximise therapeutic effectiveness and minimise/avoid adverse effects. The aim of this study is to investigate the “time of administration” r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
131 Citations
13,061 Views
13 Pages

Evaluation of P-Glycoprotein Inhibitory Potential Using a Rhodamine 123 Accumulation Assay

  • Elodie Jouan,
  • Marc Le Vée,
  • Abdullah Mayati,
  • Claire Denizot,
  • Yannick Parmentier and
  • Olivier Fardel

In vitro evaluation of P-glycoprotein (P-gp) inhibitory potential is now a regulatory issue during drug development, in order to predict clinical inhibition of P-gp and subsequent drug–drug interactions. Assays for this purpose, commonly based on P-g...

  • Review
  • Open Access
92 Citations
12,792 Views
16 Pages

Nanovectors, such as liposomes, micelles and lipid nanoparticles, are recognized as efficient platforms for delivering therapeutic agents, especially those with low solubility in water. Besides being safe and non-toxic, drug carriers with improved pe...

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