Recent advances in intra-articular drug delivery systems for osteoarthritis therapy

P Maudens, O Jordan, E Allémann - Drug discovery today, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Precision medicine is necessary to treat multiple facets of osteoarthritis.•Disease-
modifying osteoarthritis drugs (DMOADs) and drug delivery systems (DDSs) are …

Challenges in delivering therapeutic peptides and proteins: A silk-based solution

J Wu, JK Sahoo, Y Li, Q Xu, DL Kaplan - Journal of Controlled Release, 2022 - Elsevier
Peptide-and protein-based therapeutics have drawn significant attention over the past few
decades for the treatment of infectious diseases, genetic disorders, oncology, and many …

Strategies for overcoming protein and peptide instability in biodegradable drug delivery systems

M Shi, KJ McHugh - Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
The global pharmaceutical market has recently shifted its focus from small molecule drugs to
peptide, protein, and nucleic acid drugs, which now comprise a majority of the top-selling …

Sterilization of hydrogels for biomedical applications: A review

R Galante, TJA Pinto, R Colaco… - Journal of Biomedical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the beneficial properties and outstanding potential of hydrogels for biomedical
applications, several unmet challenges must be overcome, especially regarding to their …

Chemistry and art of developing lipid nanoparticles for biologics delivery: focus on development and scale-up

R John, J Monpara, S Swaminathan, R Kalhapure - Pharmaceutics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) have gained prominence as primary carriers for delivering a
diverse array of therapeutic agents. Biological products have achieved a solid presence in …

Optimizing novel penetration enhancing hybridized vesicles for augmenting the in-vivo effect of an anti-glaucoma drug

SS Naguib, RM Hathout, S Mansour - Drug delivery, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Usually the topical delivery of ocular drugs poses a great challenge. Accordingly, the work in
this study comprised the use of different hybrids of generally regarded as safe (GRAS) oils …

Irradiation of pharmaceuticals: A literature review

GP Jacobs - Radiation Physics and Chemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Regulatory authorities require pharmaceuticals to be sterilized wherever practicable by a
terminal sterilization method that is sterilized in the final container rather than by aseptic …

Reducing neuroinflammation by delivery of IL‐10 encoding lentivirus from multiple‐channel bridges

DJ Margul, J Park, RM Boehler… - Bioengineering & …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The spinal cord is unable to regenerate after injury largely due to growth‐inhibition by an
inflammatory response to the injury that fails to resolve, resulting in secondary damage and …

Drug-eluting silicone hydrogel for therapeutic contact lenses: Impact of sterilization methods on the system performance

R Galante, AS Oliveira, A Topete, D Ghisleni… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2018 - Elsevier
Although contact lenses are promising platforms for ocular drug delivery and have been
extensively studied for that purpose, the influence of sterilization methods on these systems …

Augmented cytotoxicity using the physical adsorption of Poloxamer 188 on allicin-loaded gelatin nanoparticles

M Ossama, RM Hathout, DA Attia… - Journal of Pharmacy …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Objectives The aim of this work was to study the effect of the physically adsorbed Poloxamer
188 coating polymer on the cytotoxic activity of allicin-loaded gelatin nanoparticles. Methods …