Fungal infections are amongst the most commonly encountered diseases affecting the skin. Treatment approaches include both topical and oral antifungal agents. The topical route is generally preferred due to the possible side effects of oral medication. Advances in the field of formulation may soon render outdated conventional products such as creams, ointments and gels. Several carrier systems ...

Pharmaceutical and biomedical industries demand simple, safe and reproducible processing methods thus urging the development of novel straightforward manufacturing approaches. The product manufacturing by the green processing of admixtures and end-product would avoid long and costly purification (downstream) steps. In this work, the supercritical fluid technology is used for the green processin...

Partition of the intrinsically fluorescent HIV fusion inhibitor enfuvirtide into lipidic membranes is relatively high (Delta G =6.6 kcal x mol(-1)) and modulated by cholesterol. A shallow position in the lipidic matrix makes it readily available for interaction with gp41. No conformational energetic barrier prevents enfuvirtide from being active in both aqueous solution and lipidic membranes. L...

Bioactive compounds possess a variety of potentially beneficial bioactivities. However, the application these ingredients in food, supplement and pharmaceutical industries is often challenged due to their poor solubility, low chemical stability, unsustainable bioavailability. Carvacrol, for example, can represent wide range bioactive that are susceptible processing, transportation storage condi...

Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) and 45S5 Bioglass microspheres (bioactive GM) can increase the differentiation of osteoblasts. Recombinant human BMP-2 (rhBMP-2) is presently the BMP most frequently used in delivery systems and it has already been used in clinical bone healing studies. We have developed a delivery system that combines a collagen Type I gel, BMP and bioactive GM. Since BMP-9 s...

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...