During the last decade, major scientific advances on understanding the mechanisms of lipid
digestion and metabolism have been made, with a view to addressing health issues (such …

Background The application of liposomal system in food area allowing carried and
controlled bioactive-molecules release has been considered one of the main strategies …

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” …

Lipid based formulations (LBF) provide well proven opportunities to enhance the oral
absorption of drugs and drug candidates that sit close to, or beyond, the boundaries of …

Block copolymer (BCP) self-assembly is one of the most versatile concepts for the bottom-up
design of functional nanostructures in materials science, nanomedicine and …

Food Emulsions: Principles, Practice, and Techniques, Second Edition introduces the
fundamentals of emulsion science and demonstrates how this knowledge can be applied to …

Highly potent, but poorly water-soluble, drug candidates are common outcomes of
contemporary drug discovery programmes and present a number of challenges to drug …

Cubosomes are lipid vesicles that are comparable to vesicular systems like liposomes.
Cubosomes are created with certain amphiphilic lipids in the presence of a suitable …

There is increasing interest in understanding and controlling the digestion of emulsified
lipids within the food and pharmaceutical industries. Emulsion-based delivery systems are …

Lipid-based delivery systems are finding increasing application in the oral delivery of poorly
water-soluble, lipophilic drugs. Whilst lipidic dose forms may improve oral bioavailability via …