Design of liposomes as drug delivery system for therapeutic applications

D Guimarães, A Cavaco-Paulo, E Nogueira - International journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Liposomes are spherical vesicles consisting of one or more concentric phospholipid bilayers
enclosing an aqueous core. Being both nontoxic and biodegradable, liposomes represent a …

[HTML][HTML] Skin drug delivery using lipid vesicles: A starting guideline for their development

AJ Guillot, M Martínez-Navarrete, TM Garrigues… - Journal of Controlled …, 2023 - Elsevier
Lipid vesicles can provide a cost-effective enhancement of skin drug absorption when
vesicle production process is optimised. It is an important challenge to design the ideal …

Permeation enhancer strategies in transdermal drug delivery

H Marwah, T Garg, AK Goyal, G Rath - Drug delivery, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Today,∼ 74% of drugs are taken orally and are not found to be as effective as desired. To
improve such characteristics, transdermal drug delivery was brought to existence. This …

Current insights on antifungal therapy: Novel nanotechnology approaches for drug delivery systems and new drugs from natural sources

F Sousa, D Ferreira, S Reis, P Costa - Pharmaceuticals, 2020 - mdpi.com
The high incidence of fungal infections has become a worrisome public health issue, having
been aggravated by an increase in host predisposition factors. Despite all the drugs …

Design, optimization and characterization of a transfersomal gel using miconazole nitrate for the treatment of candida skin infections

M Qushawy, A Nasr, M Abd-Alhaseeb, S Swidan - Pharmaceutics, 2018 - mdpi.com
Miconazole nitrate (MIC) is an antifungal drug used for treatment of superficial fungal
infections. However, it has low skin permeability. Hence, the objective of this study was to …

In vitro skin models as a tool in optimization of drug formulation

GE Flaten, Z Palac, A Engesland… - European journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract (Trans) dermal drug therapy is gaining increasing importance in the modern drug
development. To fully utilize the potential of this route, it is important to optimize the delivery …

Contrast enhanced ultrasound imaging by nature-inspired ultrastable echogenic nanobubbles

R Perera, C Hernandez, M Cooley, O Jung… - Nanoscale, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Advancement of ultrasound molecular imaging applications requires not only a reduction in
size of the ultrasound contrast agents (UCAs) but also a significant improvement in the in …

[HTML][HTML] New formulation strategies in topical antifungal therapy

S Güngör, MS Erdal, B Aksu - Journal of Cosmetics, Dermatological …, 2013 - scirp.org
Fungal infections of the skin are one of the often faced with dermatological diseases in
worldwide. Topical therapy is an attractive choice for the treatment of the cutaneous …

Toward precisely controllable acoustic response of shell-stabilized nanobubbles: High yield and narrow dispersity

A Jafari Sojahrood, AC de Leon, R Lee, M Cooley… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Understanding the pressure dependence of the nonlinear behavior of ultrasonically excited
phospholipid-stabilized nanobubbles (NBs) is important for optimizing ultrasound exposure …

Formulation and characterization of metformin-loaded ethosomes for topical application to experimentally induced skin cancer in mice

IA Mousa, TM Hammady, S Gad, SA Zaitone… - Pharmaceuticals, 2022 - mdpi.com
To achieve the best treatment of skin cancer, drug penetration inside the deepest layers of
the skin is an important scientific interest. We designed an ethosome formulation that serves …