Drug Delivery for Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Drug Delivery and Controlled Release".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2020) | Viewed by 10942
Special Issue Editors
Interests: drug delivery systems; CNS drug delivery; neurodegenerative disorders
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Interests: drug delivery systems; CNS drug delivery; neurodegenerative disorders
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The failure of many molecules as CNS pharmacologically active compounds is due to different restrictions, such as poor water solubility, reduced intestinal absorption, in vivo stability, bioavailability, plasma fluctuation levels, and difficulties crossing the blood–brain barrier (BBB). Nanotechnology-based approaches, employing liposomes, micelles, dendrimers, and solid lipid nanoparticles (SLN) as drug delivery systems, are used to overcome the above-reported limitations. During the last few decades, new drug delivery technologies have emerged to treat neurodegenerative diseases; these formulations have the ability to protect drugs from chemical and enzymatic degradation, deliver the active compound to the target site with a substantial reduction of systemic toxicity, and pass physiological barriers, increasing bioavailability without resorting to high dosage forms. The aim of this Special Issue is to highlight current progress in the use of new drug delivery technologies to overcome the BBB and to target drugs to the CNS.
Prof. Antonio Di Stefano
Dr. Lisa Marinelli
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Neurodegenerative diseases
- New therapeutic strategies
- Drug delivery systems
- Nanotechnology-based approaches
- Brain targeting
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