Drug discovery and drug delivery are two main aspects for treatment of a variety of disorders. However, the real bottleneck associated with systemic drug administration is the lack of target-specific affinity toward a pathological site, resulting in systemic toxicity and innumerable other side effects as well as higher dosage requirement for efficacy. An attractive strategy to increase the ther...

Objective(s): The aim of present research was to develop matrix-mini-tablets of lornoxicam filled in capsule for targeting early morning peak symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis. Materials and Methods:Matrix-mini-tablets of lornoxicam were prepared by direct compression method using microsomal enzyme dependent and pH-sensitive polymers which were further filled into an empty HPMC capsule. To asses...

patient noncompliance to current tuberculosis (tb) therapy owing to multidrug administration daily leads to treatment failure and emergence of multidrug resistant and extensively drug resistant tb. to avoid the daily dosing, application of nanotechnology is the only viable solution by virtue of sustained release of drugs. other potential advantages of the system include the possibility of selec...

1982). It is not clear how the rate of entry into lysosomes themselves is affected, but it may be retarded. The situation is even more obscure in the case of entry into lysosomes by autophagy. There are some indications of abnormalities in endogenous protein breakdown, and in perhaps of the lysosomal component thereof, in I-cell disease (Cockle & Dean, 1984). Similarly, Sameshima et al. (1981) ...

1 In the past few years, considerable advances of basic and application researches have taken place in the field of pharmaceutics. The newly recognized research thrust on nanoand microencapsulation is expected to have a revolutionary impact on the human health. To do this, considerable interest has been devoted towards the design of new drug delivery systems with the aim to specifically target ...

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...