Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology: Drug Delivery Challenges
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Medicinal Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2024) | Viewed by 1900
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Interests: colloidal systems; liposomes; Langmuir–Blodgett films; membrane models; drug delivery; surfaces; magnetic nanoparticles; prussian blue nanoparticles; liposomes; magnetoliposomes
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Poor biopharmaceutical characteristics of drug and biological barriers in the body affect whether the drug molecules reach the intended disease site. For instance, the solubility and permeability of a drug molecule affect its transportation through the cellular membranes, while their stability in the biological environment dictates residence time and efficacy. Nanomedicines, an innovation of nanotechnology, ferry the payload safely and effectively through several anatomical and physiological barriers to the target site. Furthermore, nanomedicines could be engineered to provide compound effects through ligand-mediated targeting and image-guided drug delivery at the disease site. With illustrative examples from scientific literature, we seek to emphasize the versatility of different nanosystems and their utility in disease therapy, spanning from preclinical development to approved products. Specific issues in drug approval, including quality-by-design and regulatory aspects, will be discussed in this Special Issue. Based on the advances in drug delivery and nanomaterial synthesis, there is a great future for nanomedicine in the diagnosis and treatment of several complex diseases.
This new Special Issue aims to publish a collection of reviews as well as original research papers devoted to drug delivery incorporating nanotechnology.
Dr. Maria Antònia Busquets
Dr. Alba Espargaró
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nanotechnology
- drug delivery
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