Cervical cancer is a highly prevalent cancer that affects women around the world. With the availability of new technologies, researchers have increased their efforts to develop new drug delivery systems in cervical cancer chemotherapy. In this review, we summarized some of the recent research in systematic and localized drug delivery systems and compared the advantages and disadvantages of thes...

Over the past 30 years as the expense and complications involved in marketing new drug entities have increased, with concomitant recognition of the therapeutic advantages of controlled drug delivery, greater attention has been focused on development of sustained or controlled release drug delivery systems. Bilayer tablet is new era for the successful development of controlled release formulatio...

The range of bioactive substances emerging as potential drug candidates, together with those currently under research and development, continue to provide major challenges for efficient drug delivery and targeting. Various strategies for formulation design using diverse chemicals as formulation excipients are available, and numerous materials are being considered and developed to provide specif...

Nanotubes (NTs), nanometer-scale hollow cylinders, are emerging as promising drug vehicles offering many advantages over spherical particles. This paper briefly highlights the recent performance of NTs in drug delivery. This discussion is by no means intended to be complete, an attempt is made to provide some illustrative examples on the basis and application of the NT delivery systems. The NT ...

Drug targeting to specific organs and tissues has become one of the critical endeavors of the century since the use of free drugs in conventional dosage forms generally involves difficulties in achieving the target site at the appropriate dose after or during a proper time period. Consequently, the search for new drug delivery approaches and new modes of action represent one of the frontier res...

Intelligent drug-delivery systems are described as novel technological innovations and clinical approaches to improve conventional treatments. These systems differ in methodology of therapeutic administration, intricacy, materials and patient compliance to address numerous clinical conditions that require various pharmacological therapies. Drug delivery systems (DDS) capable of releasing an act...

In the modern era of treatment many new approaches have been evolved for more efficient administration of drugs. One of such approach is the administration of drugs at times at which they are most effective and best tolerated. Chronotherapy is the approach where the availability of drug is timed to match rhythms of disease or disorders in order to optimize therapeutic responses and minimize sid...

Precise control of drug release rate in hydrogel drug delivery systems to better mimic physiological condition is a challenging research topic in development of Advanced Drug Delivery Systems. One of the major issues with bioresponsive drug delivery systems is the excessive 'leakage' of drug while the system is in the 'off' state, which leads to shortening of the device life-time and potential ...

Nasal route of drug delivery is commonly known for treatment of local ailments like-cold, cough, rhinitis etc. Recently, efforts have been made to deliver various drugs, specially peptides and proteins, through nasal route for systemic use; utilizing the principles and concepts of rate controlled drug delivery and various polymers and absorption promoters. Considering the large number of proble...