Recent Advances in Ocular Drug Delivery Systems
A special issue of Pharmaceuticals (ISSN 1424-8247). This special issue belongs to the section "Pharmaceutical Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2023) | Viewed by 21523
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nanomedicine; tissue engineering; ocular drug delivery; cataract; glaucoma; AMD
Interests: nanomedicine; theranpstics; diagnosis; therapy; drug delivery systems; cancer; neurodegenerative disease; miRNA; siRNA; wound healing; biomedical engineering; biomaterials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nowadays, not only the aged population but also younger people are suffering from ocular diseases. Modern lifestyles are assumed to be the main causes of these diseases, which include macular degeneration, cataracts, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, dry eye syndrome, inflammation, and ocular allergies. While therapeutic agents are currently available for treating most of these diseases, new medicines or drug delivery systems are expected to improve clinical outcomes and combat such diseases. The main obstacles in evolving therapeutic formulations for treating diseases of different parts of the eye are dispatching the effective drug concentration to the target site in a sustained manner, while minimizing side effects and enhancing patient compliance. The unique anatomy and physiology of the eye make this challenging, and treatments require advanced developments in the field of minimally or noninvasive ocular drug delivery systems.
This Special Issue, entitled “Ocular Drug Delivery Systems”, aims to cover advanced developments in the field of drug delivery systems for the eye. The scope of these papers spans from applications of emerging/advanced materials in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of eye diseases to translation medicine and clinical trials. Submissions of original research work and review manuscripts are welcome.
We invite high-quality papers that are based around the following keywords:
- Eye/ocular drug delivery systems;
- Ocular nanomedicine;
- Ocular diagnosis and theragnostics;
- Ocular gene therapy;
- Blood–aqueous barrier;
- Blood–retina barrier;
- Minimally or noninvasive methods;
- nAMD;
- Glaucoma;
- Retinopathy;
- Dry eye syndrome.
Dr. Sibel Cetinel
Dr. Ali Zarrabi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- eye/ocular drug delivery systems
- ocular nanomedicine
- ocular diagnosis and theragnostics
- ocular gene therapy
- blood–aqueous barrier
- blood–retina barrier
- minimally or noninvasive methods
- nAMD
- glaucoma
- retinopathy
- dry eye syndrome
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