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  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,397 Views
34 Pages

Background: Tuberculosis remains a significant global health issue, and the rise of drug-resistant strains is becoming increasingly concerning. Currently, treatment options are limited to systemic regimens; however, developing topical drug delivery s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,442 Views
13 Pages

30 December 2017

The solubility of terpolymers containing alkyl, and perfluoroalkyl side chains as well as succinic acid moieties in the main chain, P[RFMA0.2-co-RHMA0.65-co-MAH0.15] (RH = C4H9- or C12H25-, RF- = C10H4F19-) with ca. 20 mol % fluorinated side chains a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,480 Views
16 Pages

The development of new vaccine adjuvants represents a key approach to improvingi the immune responses to recombinant vaccine antigens. Emulsion adjuvants, such as AS03 and MF59, in combination with influenza vaccines, have allowed antigen dose sparin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,599 Views
18 Pages

Influence of the Triglyceride Composition, Surfactant Concentration and Time–Temperature Conditions on the Particle Morphology in Dispersions

  • Jasmin Reiner,
  • Désirée Martin,
  • Franziska Ott,
  • Leon Harnisch,
  • Volker Gaukel and
  • Heike Petra Karbstein

Many applications for crystalline triglyceride-in-water dispersions exist in the life sciences and pharmaceutical industries. The main dispersion structures influencing product properties are the particle morphology and size distribution. These can b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,176 Views
16 Pages

Preparation and Performance Evaluation of Amphiphilic Polymers for Enhanced Heavy Oil Recovery

  • Dongtao Fei,
  • Jixiang Guo,
  • Ruiying Xiong,
  • Xiaojun Zhang,
  • Chuanhong Kang and
  • Wyclif Kiyingi

2 December 2023

The continuous growth in global energy and chemical raw material demand has drawn significant attention to the development of heavy oil resources. A primary challenge in heavy oil extraction lies in reducing crude oil viscosity. Alkali–surfacta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
700 Views
18 Pages

In Situ Emulsification Synergistic Self-Profile Control System on Offshore Oilfield: Key Influencing Factors and EOR Mechanism

  • Liangliang Wang,
  • Minghua Shi,
  • Jiaxin Li,
  • Baiqiang Shi,
  • Xiaoming Su,
  • Yande Zhao,
  • Qing Guo and
  • Yuan Yuan

21 July 2025

The in situ emulsification synergistic self-profile control system has wide application prospects for efficient development on offshore oil reservoirs. During water flooding in Bohai heavy oil reservoirs, random emulsification occurs with superimpose...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
4,817 Views
20 Pages

Design of Non-Haemolytic Nanoemulsions for Intravenous Administration of Hydrophobic APIs

  • Line Séguy,
  • Anne-Claire Groo,
  • Didier Goux,
  • Didier Hennequin and
  • Aurélie Malzert-Fréon

Among advanced formulation strategies, nanoemulsions are considered useful drug-delivery systems allowing to improve the solubility and the bioavailability of lipophilic drugs. To select safe excipients for nanoemulsion formulation and to discard any...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,846 Views
14 Pages

Impact of Hydro-Alcoholic Solvents on the Oil and Phenolics Extraction from Walnut (Juglans regia L.) Press-Cake and the Self-Emulsification of Extracts

  • Pascale Subra-Paternault,
  • Maria del Pilar Garcia-Mendoza,
  • Raphaëlle Savoire and
  • Christelle Harscoat-Schiavo

11 January 2022

The objective was to evaluate the performance of four hydro-alcoholic solvents to simultaneously extract oil and more polar molecules as phenolics, among others, to produce complex extracts that eventually could self-emulsify after solvent removal. W...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
6,590 Views
24 Pages

A quality-by-design and characterization approach was followed to ensure development of self-emulsifying drug delivery systems (SEDDSs) destined for topical delivery of the highly lipophilic clofazimine. Solubility and water-titration experiments ide...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,503 Views
19 Pages

The Science of Selecting Excipients for Dermal Self-Emulsifying Drug Delivery Systems

  • Daniélle van Staden,
  • Richard K. Haynes and
  • Joe M. Viljoen

Self-emulsification is considered a formulation technique that has proven capacity to improve oral drug delivery of poorly soluble drugs by advancing both solubility and bioavailability. The capacity of these formulations to produce emulsions after m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,794 Views
23 Pages

Design and Evaluation of Clove Oil-Based Self-Emulsifying Drug Delivery Systems for Improving the Oral Bioavailability of Neratinib Maleate

  • Radhika Rajiv Mahajan,
  • Punna Rao Ravi,
  • Riya Kamlesh Marathe,
  • Ajay Gorakh Dongare,
  • Apoorva Vinayak Prabhu and
  • Łukasz Szeleszczuk

Neratinib maleate (NM), a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, is used in the treatment of breast cancer. NM is orally administered at a high dose of 290 mg due to its low solubility and poor dissolution rate at pH > 3, as well as gut-wall metabolism limiti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
80 Citations
9,407 Views
24 Pages

Bioactive Self-Nanoemulsifying Drug Delivery Systems (Bio-SNEDDS) for Combined Oral Delivery of Curcumin and Piperine

  • Mohsin Kazi,
  • Ahmad A. Shahba,
  • Saad Alrashoud,
  • Majed Alwadei,
  • Abdelrahman Y. Sherif and
  • Fars K. Alanazi

Background: Bioactive oils of natural origin have gained huge interests from health care professionals and patients. Objective: To design a bioactive self-nanoemulsifying drug delivery system (Bio-SNEDDS) comprising curcumin (CUR) and piperine (PP) b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
2,360 Views
17 Pages

22 July 2012

The aim of this study was to prepare and characterize a self-emulsifying drug delivery system (SEDDS) with a high drug load of poorly water-soluble atorvastatin for the enhancement of dissolution and oral bioavailability. Solubility of atorvastatin i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
456 Views
20 Pages

Unveiling the Cytotoxicity Potential of Nanoemulsion of Peltophorum pterocarpum Extract: A Natural Hemocompatible Injection Competing with Doxorubicin

  • Al Zahraa G. Al Ashmawy,
  • Afaf E. AbdelGhani,
  • Wafaa H. B. Hassan,
  • Fatma O. El Weshahy,
  • Wael M. Abdelmageed,
  • Shaza M. Al-Massarani,
  • Omer A. Basudan,
  • Aalaa Gamil and
  • May Ahmed El-Sayed

28 November 2025

Background/Objectives: According to the WHO, more than one million deaths of liver cancer patients will occur in 2030. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the third leading cause of death among all cancer types. Doxorubicin is commonly used for the tre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,521 Views
22 Pages

8 September 2022

Purpose: Ramipril (RMP)—an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor—and thymoquinone (THQ) suffer from poor oral bioavailability. Developing a combined liquid SNEDDS that comprises RMP and black seed oil (as a natural source of THQ)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,513 Views
22 Pages

Combined Curcumin and Lansoprazole-Loaded Bioactive Solid Self-Nanoemulsifying Drug Delivery Systems (Bio-SSNEDDS)

  • Abdulrahman Alshadidi,
  • Ahmad Abdul-Wahhab Shahba,
  • Ibrahim Sales,
  • Md Abdur Rashid and
  • Mohsin Kazi

Background: The current study aimed to design a novel combination of lansoprazole (LNS) and curcumin (CUR) solid oral dosage form using bioactive self-nanoemulsifying drug delivery systems (Bio-SSNEDDS). Methods: Liquid SNEDDS were prepared using the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,436 Views
17 Pages

Formulation of Self-Nanoemulsifying Drug Delivery System of Cephalexin: Physiochemical Characterization and Antibacterial Evaluation

  • Ameeduzzafar Zafar,
  • Mohd Yasir,
  • Nabil K. Alruwaili,
  • Syed Sarim Imam,
  • Omar Awad Alsaidan,
  • Sultan Alshehri,
  • Mohammed M. Ghoneim,
  • Ali Alquraini,
  • Alenazy Rawaf and
  • Udai Vir Singh Sara
  • + 1 author

7 March 2022

A cephalexin (CEP) self-nanoemulsifying drug delivery system (SNEDDS) was developed in this study to improve the drug’s oral administration. The CEP-SNEDDS was made utilizing an aqueous titration method employing Lauroglycol 90, Poloxamer 188,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
7,695 Views
14 Pages

Resveratrol (RES), a natural polyphenolic compound, exerts anti-fatigue activity, but its administration is complicated by its low water solubility. To improve RES bioavailability, this study developed a self-nanoemulsifying drug delivery system (SNE...

  • Review
  • Open Access
63 Citations
13,873 Views
21 Pages

Formulations based on emulsions for enhancing hydrophobic and lipophilic drug delivery and its bioavailability have attracted a lot of interest. As potential therapeutic agents, they are integrated with inert oils, emulsions, surfactant solubility, l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
4,588 Views
16 Pages

Enhanced Intestinal Permeability of Cefixime by Self-Emulsifying Drug Delivery System: In-Vitro and Ex-Vivo Characterization

  • Arshad Mahmood,
  • Laraib Khan,
  • Muhammad Ijaz,
  • Imran Nazir,
  • Mahrukh Naseem,
  • Muhammad Azam Tahir,
  • Muhammad Naeem Aamir,
  • Masood Ur Rehman and
  • Mulazim Hussain Asim

21 March 2023

Background: Cefixime (CFX) belongs to a group of third-generation cephalosporin antibiotics with low water solubility and low intestinal permeability, which ultimately leads to significantly low bioavailability. Aim: This study aimed to increase solu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,199 Views
22 Pages

Self-emulsifying drug delivery systems (SEDDS) can improve the oral bioavailability of poorly water-soluble drugs. Solid self-emulsifying drug delivery systems (s-SEDDS) offer several advantages including improved drug stability, ease of administrati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,792 Views
14 Pages

Sesamin (SSM) is a water-insoluble compound that is easily eliminated by liver metabolism. To improve the solubility and bioavailability of SSM, this study developed and characterized a self-nanoemulsifying drug delivery system (SNEDDS) for the oral...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,307 Views
21 Pages

3 October 2023

Tocotrienols have higher medicinal value, with multiple sources of evidence showing their biological properties as antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and osteoprotective compounds. However, tocotrienol bioavailability presents an ongoing challenge in it...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,747 Views
17 Pages

Self-Microemulsifying Drug Delivery System to Enhance Oral Bioavailability of Berberine Hydrochloride in Rats

  • Xiaolan Chen,
  • Haifeng Yang,
  • Longyu Shi,
  • Yujuan Mao,
  • Lin Niu,
  • Jing Wang,
  • Haifeng Chen,
  • Jiping Jia,
  • Jingxuan Wang and
  • Yi Zheng
  • + 4 authors

Berberine hydrochloride (BH) is a versatile bioactive compound derived from the plants of the Berberis genus, known for its various pharmacological effects. However, its oral bioavailability is low due to its high hydrophilicity and limited permeabil...

  • Review
  • Open Access
238 Citations
18,025 Views
55 Pages

Approximately one third of newly discovered drug molecules show insufficient water solubility and therefore low oral bio-availability. Self-nano-emulsifying drug-delivery systems (SNEDDSs) are one of the emerging strategies developed to tackle the is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,793 Views
21 Pages

25 September 2023

Self-emulsifying drug delivery systems (SEDDSs) are lipid-based systems that are superior to other lipid-based oral drug delivery systems in terms of providing drug protection against the gastrointestinal (GI) environment, inhibition of drug efflux a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
40 Citations
8,687 Views
27 Pages

Application of Design of Experiments in the Development of Self-Microemulsifying Drug Delivery Systems

  • Chien-Ming Hsieh,
  • Ting-Lun Yang,
  • Athika Darumas Putri and
  • Chin-Tin Chen

13 February 2023

Oral delivery has become the route of choice among all other types of drug administrations. However, typical chronic disease drugs are often poorly water-soluble, have low dissolution rates, and undergo first-pass metabolism, ultimately leading to lo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
15,194 Views
24 Pages

Self-emulsifying drug delivery systems (SEDDSs) originated as an oral lipid-based drug delivery system with the sole purpose of improving delivery of highly lipophilic drugs. However, the revolutionary drug delivery possibilities presented by these u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,958 Views
19 Pages

Self-double emulsifying drug delivery systems have the potential to enhance the intestinal permeability of drugs classified under the Biopharmaceutics Classification System (BCS) class III. One such example is the antiviral agent zanamivir, exhibitin...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,916 Views
81 Pages

Emulsion and Emulgel-Based Ophthalmic Drug Delivery Systems

  • Debadatta Mohapatra,
  • Eleen Yang and
  • Timothy W. Corson

Ophthalmic drug delivery encounters unique challenges due to the anatomical and physiological ocular barriers, necessitating the development of novel drug delivery systems (NDDSs). This review focuses on emerging therapeutic platforms, including nano...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,512 Views
22 Pages

Oleosome Delivery Systems: Enhancing Stability and Therapeutic Potential of Natural Products and Xenobiotics

  • Marlon C. Mallillin III,
  • Roi Martin B. Pajimna,
  • Shengnan Zhao,
  • Maryam Salami,
  • Raimar Loebenberg and
  • Neal M. Davies

Oleosomes are submicron oil bodies of a triacylglycerol core enveloped by a phospholipid monolayer and embedded proteins, forming a naturally assembled nanocarrier with exceptional oxidative resilience, interfacial stability, and biocompatibility. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,200 Views
16 Pages

The study aims to design a novel combination of drug-free solid self-nanoemulsifying drug delivery systems (S-SNEDDS) + solid dispersion (SD) to enhance cinnarizine (CN) dissolution at high pH environment caused by hypochlorhydria/achlorhydria. Drug-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
7,739 Views
15 Pages

The active ingredients of salvia (dried root of Salvia miltiorrhiza) include both lipophilic (e.g., tanshinone IIA, tanshinone I, cryptotanshinone and dihydrotanshinone I) and hydrophilic (e.g., danshensu and salvianolic acid B) constituents. The low...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,330 Views
14 Pages

4 December 2024

A surface coating of polymer particles of different hydrophobicity and wide-ranged size is helpful for the surface modification of materials such as woody thin board (WTB) derived from biomass. A preparation method for polymer particles was, in this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,528 Views
17 Pages

Preparation and Characterization of Fluorinated Acrylate and Epoxy Co-Modified Waterborne Polyurethane

  • Yufei Zhao,
  • Shuai Yang,
  • Jianjun Zhang,
  • Shaoxiong Xu,
  • Jinhui Han and
  • Sude Ma

12 September 2024

Conventional waterborne polyurethane (WPU) has poor water resistance and poor overall performance, which limits its application in outdoor coatings. A solution to this problem is urgently needed. The introduction of fluorine-containing groups can eff...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,790 Views
22 Pages

Background: Solidification by high surface area adsorbents has been associated with major obstacles in drug release. Accordingly, new approaches are highly demanded to solve these limitations. The current study proposes to improve the drug release of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,366 Views
22 Pages

Oral Bioactive Self-Nanoemulsifying Drug Delivery Systems of Remdesivir and Baricitinib: A Paradigmatic Case of Drug Repositioning for Cancer Management

  • Mohsin Kazi,
  • Yousef Alanazi,
  • Ashok Kumar,
  • Ahmad Abdul-Wahhab Shahba,
  • Syed Rizwan Ahamad and
  • Khalid M. Alghamdi

28 February 2023

Oral anticancer therapy mostly faces the challenges of low aqueous solubility, poor and irregular absorption from the gastrointestinal tract, food-influenced absorption, high first-pass metabolism, non-targeted delivery, and severe systemic and local...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,106 Views
18 Pages

Lornoxicam-Loaded Chitosan-Decorated Nanoemulsion: Preparation and In Vitro Evaluation for Enhanced Transdermal Delivery

  • Rahman Ullah Khan,
  • Shefaat Ullah Shah,
  • Sheikh Abdur Rashid,
  • Faiza Naseem,
  • Kifayat Ullah Shah,
  • Arshad Farid,
  • Khalid Rehman Hakeem,
  • Majid Rasool Kamli,
  • Eman Hillal Althubaiti and
  • Soha A. Alamoudi

9 May 2022

Nanoemulsions are promising drug delivery systems for the administration of poorly soluble drugs like lornoxicam (LRX) by oral or parenteral routes. Such formulations work perfectly for transdermal delivery of lornoxicam-type drugs. It has also been...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,211 Views
34 Pages

The growing interest in using population balance modeling to describe emulsification processes has spurred an interest in experimentally measuring the breakup frequency. This contribution classifies, compares, and critically reviews the different met...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,660 Views
11 Pages

Design and Properties of Natural Rosin-Based Phosphoester Functional Surfactants

  • Maogong Wang,
  • Xiaofang Yang,
  • Bing Han,
  • Shifeng Zhang,
  • Chunrui Han and
  • Changlei Xia

30 March 2023

As an important forestry biomass resource, rosin has a wide range of applications in medicine, adhesives, surfactants and other fields. Using natural dehydroabietic acid as a raw material, dehydroabietic acid-based phosphorus monoester (DPM) and dies...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,755 Views
20 Pages

Quality-by-Design-Based Development of a Voxelotor Self-Nanoemulsifying Drug-Delivery System with Improved Biopharmaceutical Attributes

  • Aristote B. Buya,
  • Romano Terrasi,
  • Jérémie K. Mbinze,
  • Giulio G. Muccioli,
  • Ana Beloqui,
  • Patrick B. Memvanga and
  • Véronique Préat

Low aqueous solubility and poor oral bioavailability are limiting factors in the oral delivery of voxelotor, an antisickling agent. To overcome these limitations, a voxelotor self-nanoemulsifying drug delivery system was developed. Various oils, surf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,177 Views
30 Pages

Background/Objectives: Emulsion-based semisolid formulations are important delivery systems for many applications, including pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and food. The manufacturing process for such formulations typically involves a series of heating,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,028 Views
24 Pages

Development of Environmentally Responsive Self-Emulsifying System Containing Copaiba Oil-Resin for Leishmaniasis Oral Treatment

  • Mariana Carla de Oliveira,
  • Rodolfo Bento Balbinot,
  • Mônica Villa Nova,
  • Renato Sonchini Gonçalves,
  • Danielle Lazarin Bidóia,
  • Wilker Caetano,
  • Celso Vataru Nakamura and
  • Marcos Luciano Bruschi

Leishmaniasis is a disease caused by protozoa species of the Leishmania genus, and the current treatments face several difficulties and obstacles. Most anti-leishmanial drugs are administered intravenously, showing many side effects and drug resistan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,754 Views
10 Pages

7 March 2019

Self-emulsion improves solubility and bioavailability for γ-oryzanol/algae oil, and alginate beads can be used as controlled release carriers. In this study, self-emulsified alginate beads (SEABs) were prepared with different weight ratios of s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,591 Views
20 Pages

30 January 2024

This study examines a versatile polymer known as polysurfactant, which is synthesized by co-polymerizing flexible acrylamide and sodium acrylate hydrocarbon chain. The polymer serves as a backbone and possesses active functional groups. Notably, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,655 Views
17 Pages

21 August 2023

Bottle gourd (BG) oil (family Cucurbitaceae) has several pharmacological activities including a reduction of the hazard of cardiovascular and atherosclerosis conditions. This work aimed to develop and optimize self-dispersing lipid formulations (SDLF...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,796 Views
21 Pages

Development of Piperine-Loaded Solid Self-Nanoemulsifying Drug Delivery System: Optimization, In-Vitro, Ex-Vivo, and In-Vivo Evaluation

  • Ameeduzzafar Zafar,
  • Syed Sarim Imam,
  • Nabil K. Alruwaili,
  • Omar Awad Alsaidan,
  • Mohammed H. Elkomy,
  • Mohammed M. Ghoneim,
  • Sultan Alshehri,
  • Ahmed Mahmoud Abdelhaleem Ali,
  • Khalid Saad Alharbi and
  • Abdullah S. Alanazi
  • + 3 authors

31 October 2021

Hypertension is a cardiovascular disease that needs long-term medication. Oral delivery is the most common route for the administration of drugs. The present research is to develop piperine self-nanoemulsifying drug delivery system (PE-SNEDDS) using...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
511 Citations
32,526 Views
24 Pages

Formulation of Poloxamers for Drug Delivery

  • Andrew M. Bodratti and
  • Paschalis Alexandridis

Poloxamers, also known as Pluronics®, are block copolymers of poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) and poly(propylene oxide) (PPO), which have an amphiphilic character and useful association and adsorption properties emanating from this. Poloxamers find use in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
104 Citations
11,819 Views
13 Pages

Development and Evaluation of Liquid and Solid Self-Emulsifying Drug Delivery Systems for Atorvastatin

  • Anna Czajkowska-Kośnik,
  • Marta Szekalska,
  • Aleksandra Amelian,
  • Emilia Szymańska and
  • Katarzyna Winnicka

25 November 2015

The objective of this work was to design and characterize liquid and solid self-emulsifying drug delivery systems (SEDDS) for poorly soluble atorvastatin. To optimize the composition of liquid atorvastatin-SEDDS, solubility tests, pseudoternary phase...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,094 Views
14 Pages

14 July 2023

This study investigated the interfacial adsorption and emulsifying performance of glycated β-conglycinin (7S) with D-galactose (Gal) at various times. Results indicated that glycation increased the particle sizes and zeta potentials of glycated...

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