Novel Strategies to Enhance the Encapsulation of Bioactive Molecules
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (18 March 2023) | Viewed by 3407
Special Issue Editor
Interests: biomaterial; nanotechnology; drug bioavailability; target delivery; drug encapsulation; agrochemical encapsulation
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Dear Colleagues,
Enhanced drug encapsulation is especially concerned with targeted delivery, modified release, and therapeutic impact; however, several factors can influence the encapsulation efficiency and hamper the success of an innovative idea and its potential for the effective treatment of diseases. Therefore, the efficient encapsulation of drugs is among the major challenges for pharmacists, chemists, biotechnologists, and other scientists involved with new technologies for the delivery systems of bioactive compounds. Many disease-related drugs and bioactive molecules have shown improved bioavailability, control delivery, and bioactivity upon successful encapsulation. Many of the newly synthesized compounds of biological interest have poor bioavailability due to hydrophobicity; chemical or enzymatic degradation; short half-life; low retention time; dissolution and permeation rates; or environmental factors such as pH, clearance, myoelectric stimulus, and anatomical as well as physiological barriers. Drug encapsulation is a biopharmaceutical strategy to improve the stability, safety, and efficacy of drugs and other bioactives, making them far superior to their conventional counterpart dosage forms.
This Special Issue aims to publish research involving novel strategies to enhance the encapsulation efficiency of bioactive molecules to improve bioavailability, overcome the anatomical and physiological barriers to targeted delivery, and promote modified drug delivery.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. All research areas that include the encapsulation of bioactive molecules are well-regarded.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Marco Chaud
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- drug encapsulation
- microparticles
- nanoparticles
- nanoemulsions
- targeted delivery
- protein encapsulation
- colloidal systems
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