Strategies to address low drug solubility in discovery and development

HD Williams, NL Trevaskis, SA Charman… - Pharmacological …, 2013 - Elsevier
Drugs with low water solubility are predisposed to low and variable oral bioavailability and,
therefore, to variability in clinical response. Despite significant efforts to “design in” …

Cyclodextrins as pharmaceutical solubilizers

ME Brewster, T Loftsson - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2007 - Elsevier
Cyclodextrins are useful functional excipients that have enjoyed widespread attention and
use. The basis for this popularity from a pharmaceutical standpoint, is the ability of these …

Cyclodextrins as functional excipients: methods to enhance complexation efficiency

T Loftsson, ME Brewster - Journal of pharmaceutical sciences, 2012 - Elsevier
Cyclodextrins have gained currency as useful solubilizing excipients with an ever increasing
list of beneficial properties and functionalities. Although their use in liquid dosage forms …

Drug delivery system based on cyclodextrin-naproxen inclusion complex incorporated in electrospun polycaprolactone nanofibers

MF Canbolat, A Celebioglu, T Uyar - Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 2014 - Elsevier
In this study, we select naproxen (NAP) as a reference drug and electrospun poly (ɛ-
caprolactone)(PCL) nanofibers as a fibrous matrix for our drug-delivery system. NAP was …

Self-association of cyclodextrins and cyclodextrin complexes in aqueous solutions

T Loftsson, P Saokham, ARS Couto - International journal of pharmaceutics, 2019 - Elsevier
Cyclodextrins (CDs) are oligosaccharides that self-assemble in aqueous solutions to form
transient clusters, nanoparticles and small microparticles. The critical aggregation …

β‐Cyclodextrin covalent organic framework for selective molecular adsorption

RQ Wang, XB Wei, YQ Feng - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Covalent organic frameworks (COF) are complex functional systems constructed with atomic
precision by linking well‐defined building blocks through robust covalent bonds. β …

Developing early formulations: practice and perspective

P Li, L Zhao - International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 2007 - Elsevier
Early formulations are prepared mostly for drug compounds at both discovery and preclinical
stages and are used to animals via various routes such as oral and intravenous dosing …

Effect of surfactant mixing on partitioning of model hydrophobic drug, naproxen, between aqueous and micellar phases

PA Bhat, GM Rather, AA Dar - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Mixed surfactants may improve the performance of surfactant-enhanced solubilization of
drugs and thus can serve as the tool for increased bioavalaibility, controlled drug release …

Recent advances in intravenous delivery of poorly water-soluble compounds

Y Shi, W Porter, T Merdan, LC Li - Expert opinion on drug delivery, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
In recent years, with the widespread application of high-throughput screening technologies
in drug discovery, an increasing number of new chemical entities with extremely poor …

Enantiomeric separation of (R, S)-naproxen by recycling high speed counter-current chromatography with hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin as chiral selector

S Tong, YX Guan, J Yan, B Zheng, L Zhao - Journal of Chromatography A, 2011 - Elsevier
Recycling high speed counter-current chromatography (HSCCC) was successfully applied
to resolution of (R, S)-naproxen (NAP) using hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin (HP-β-CD) as …