Mesoporous silica nanoparticles for pulmonary drug delivery

A Garcia-Fernandez, F Sancenon… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
Over the last years, respiratory diseases represent a clinical concern, being included among
the leading causes of death in the world due to the lack of effective lung therapies, mainly …

[HTML][HTML] Pharmaceutical strategies to extend pulmonary exposure of inhaled medicines

Y Guo, H Bera, C Shi, L Zhang, D Cun… - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica …, 2021 - Elsevier
Pulmonary administration route has been extensively exploited for the treatment of local
lung diseases such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases and respiratory …

Inhalable Nanobody (PiN-21) prevents and treats SARS-CoV-2 infections in Syrian hamsters at ultra-low doses

S Nambulli, Y Xiang, NL Tilston-Lunel, LJ Rennick… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Globally, there is an urgency to develop effective, low-cost therapeutic interventions for
coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). We previously generated the stable and ultrapotent …

Inhalation monoclonal antibody therapy: a new way to treat and manage respiratory infections

HA Parray, S Shukla, R Perween, R Khatri… - Applied microbiology …, 2021 - Springer
The route of administration of a therapeutic agent has a substantial impact on its success.
Therapeutic antibodies are usually administered systemically, either directly by intravenous …

[HTML][HTML] Oral inhalation for delivery of proteins and peptides to the lungs

E Fröhlich, S Salar-Behzadi - European Journal of Pharmaceutics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Oral inhalation is the preferred route for delivery of small molecules to the lungs, because
high tissue levels can be achieved shortly after application. Biologics are mainly …

Leucine as an excipient in spray dried powder for inhalation

N Alhajj, NJ O'Reilly, H Cathcart - Drug Discovery Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Leucine is a promising excipient with several applications in the development of inhalable
spray-dried powder of high-and low-dose drugs. The addition of leucine has exhibited …

Dry powder pharmaceutical biologics for inhalation therapy

RYK Chang, MYT Chow, D Khanal, D Chen… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
Therapeutic biologics such as genes, peptides, proteins, virus and cells provide clinical
benefits and are becoming increasingly important tools in respiratory medicine. Pulmonary …

Glucose-responsive oral insulin delivery platform for one treatment a day in diabetes

Y Xiao, Z Tang, X Huang, J Joseph, W Chen, C Liu… - Matter, 2021 - cell.com
Oral delivery of insulin is of great convenience in treating diabetes but is still subject to the
harsh gastrointestinal tract. Herein, we developed an intelligent oral insulin platform based …

Pulmonary targeting of inhalable moxifloxacin microspheres for effective management of tuberculosis

B Vishwa, A Moin, DV Gowda, SMD Rizvi… - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
In the present study, the objective was to attain a localized lung delivery of an anti-tubercular
fluoroquinolone, moxifloxacin (MXF), targeting the alveolar macrophages through a non …

A potent SARS-CoV-2 neutralising nanobody shows therapeutic efficacy in the Syrian golden hamster model of COVID-19

J Huo, H Mikolajek, A Le Bas, JJ Clark… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 remains a global threat to human health particularly as escape mutants
emerge. There is an unmet need for effective treatments against COVID-19 for which …