Mesoporous bioactive glasses (MBGs) are bioceramics designed to induce bone tissue regeneration and very useful materials with the ability act as drug delivery systems. MBGs can be implanted in contact different ways, particulate material, 3D scaffolds or nanospheres. In this work, we assessed effects of particles mesoporous glass MBG-75S nanospheres NanoMBG-75S on RAW 264.7 J774A.1 macrophages...

in this paper, carbon nanotubes (cnts) were added into chitosan (cs) hydrogels in the form of chitosan modified cnts (cs-cnts) composites to prepare carbon nanotubes hydrogels (cnts-gel). the products, named cs-mwcnts, were characterized by scanning electron microscope (sem) and fourier transform infrared (ftir) spectroscopy. swelling properties and effect of ph on controlled release performanc...

in this work, we have studied binding of clonidine drug (c9h9cl2n3) with zigzag single walled carbonnanotubes (swcnt) (5, 0) by theoretical methods of theory using gaussian 09 software package.binding energies, nmr parameters and homo- lumo gap energy were calculated. results frombinding energies indicate that it is possible thermodynamically to bind clonidine drug to swcnt.the calculated nmr p...

the major limitation in the application of bioactive molecule is their low permeation across plasma membrane. in 1988 it was discovered, that a natural polycationic protein, the trans-acting activator of transcription (tat) of the human immunodeficiency virus (hiv-1), passed very efficiently through cell membrane of cultured mammalian cells. tat became known as the first cell penetrating peptid...

objective(s): pharmaceutical industries are leading to improved medications that can target diseases more effectively and precisely. researchers have intended to reformulate drugs so that they may be more safely used in human body. the more targeted a drug is, the lower its chance of triggering drug resistance, a cautionary concern surrounding the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics. the aim of t...

background: drug delivery systems related to different cancer therapy is now expanding. chitosan (cs) is currently receiving enormous interest for medical and pharmaceutical applications due to its biocompatibility in animal tissues. in this study two nanogels were prepared from chitosan. some of the critical factors such as controlling the release, adsorption and specially targeting drug deliv...

Clinicians want to have an effective drug-coated balloon (DCB) that is flexible and has good trackability and pushability to be delivered to the lesion. In addition, particulate embolization and loss of drug in transition are important factors that should be minimized. Arterial healing also plays a key role because in some patients, it may be necessary to shorten dual-antiplatelet therapy. If t...

Skin is an important organ of the body due to offering an accessible and convenient site for drug administration. One of the disadvantages of transdermal drug delivery is the low penetration rate of drugs through the skin. Over the past decades, nanoparticles have been used as drug delivery systems to increase therapeutic effects or reduce toxicity. Encapsulation of drugs in nanoparticulate ves...

Physical drug delivery through smart nanocarrier and external stimulus could lead to significant improvements of drug potency as well as noticeable decrease in unwanted side effects. Currently, many external energy sources such as light, magnetic fields, ultrasound, ...,  are under investigation as external stimulus for physical drug delivery. The purpose of this paper is to review most recent ...

An injectable hydrogel, comprised of hyaluronan and methylcellulose (HAMC), shows promise for localized, sustained delivery of growth factors for treatment of spinal cord injury (SCI). To better understand its potential for the delivery of small molecules, the release of sparingly soluble neuroprotectant, nimodipine, was investigated experimentally and via continuum modeling. This revealed that...