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A primer on Drug Delivery Systems

The drug delivery industry has become one of the fastest emerging industries in the healthcare sector. Drug delivery refers to the delivery of pharmaceutical substances to animals or human beings. The modes of delivery can be nasal, oral or rectal. For the drugs to prove effective, it is very important to ensure that they work in a controlled manner and get distributed throughout the body in a proper way.

Targeted drug delivery occurs when the administered drugs remains active within a particular area of the body. Targeted drug delivery can prove very effective in controlling the rapid increase of cells leading to cancerous tissues.

Most recent attempts in the realm of drug delivery include

Sustained-release formulations (in which the physician administers or releases the drug over a certain period in a controlled manner) and
Advance in intended delivery (in which the administered drugs remain active only in the targeted region of the body.

New drug delivery systems hold greater promise, as they tend to lessen the manufacturing costs. In addition, they have a better targeting ability. Due to this, the patients won’t need to take high doses and so, will face minimum side-effects.

Transdermal drug delivery system, with the use of nanotechnology, can enhance the concentration and bioavailability of the drugs. Such a technology can prove to be a boon for patients suffering from Central Nervous System (CNS) or neurodegenerative disorders.

New drug delivery systems can alleviate some major concerns of the pharmaceutical industry and offer much better prospects of finding out new and better solutions for improving the current medical problems. Apart from Nanotechnology, some other drug delivery technologies are:

Sustained Release Formulations
Nano/ Micro particulate drug delivery  systems
Self-emulsifying drug delivery  systems
Intra-nasal drug delivery systems
Innovative drug delivery solutions concerning Biotech-derived products

One of the main objectives of drug development is to find drugs that will prove to be more effective in curing diseases and treating different medical conditions.

Patent applications for Shrink’s stem cell research and drug discovery tool StemDisc filed

Patent applications for Shrink’s stem cell research and drug discovery tool StemDisc filed
Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc., an innovative nanotechnology company developing products and licensing opportunities in the solar energy production, medical diagnostics and sensors, and biotechnology research and development tools businesses, announced today that patent applications for its stem cell research and drug discovery tool StemDisc have been filed.

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Arrowhead Lead Scientific Advisor, Dr. Mauro Ferrari and Calando Pharmaceuticals’ siRNA Drug Delivery Platform …

Arrowhead Lead Scientific Advisor, Dr. Mauro Ferrari and Calando Pharmaceuticals’ siRNA Drug Delivery Platform …
Arrowhead Research Corporation (NASDAQ:ARWR) today announced that two articles of interest to Arrowhead stockholders appeared in the Houston Chronicle this week. An article published on May 24, entitled “Minute invaders that aid the body”, reports on the revolutionary potential of gene silencing and the pioneering role of the siRNA delivery system developed by Arrowhead majority-owned subsidiary …

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Nanoparticulates As Drug Carriers

Product Description
Written by key experts in the field of nanomedicine, this book provides a broad introduction to the important field of nanomedicine and application of nanotechnology for drug delivery. It covers up-to-date information regarding various nanoparticulate drug delivery systems, describes the various opportunities for the application of nanoparticular drug carriers in different areas of clinical medicine, and analyzes already available information on their clinical applications. This book can be used as an advanced textbook by graduate students and young scientists and clinicians at the early stages of their career. It is also suitable for non-experts from related areas of chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, biomedical engineering, physiology, experimental and clinical medicine, and pharmaceutical sciences, who are interested in general problems of drug delivery and drug targeting, as well as in more specialized topics of using nanoparticulate-mediated drug delivery approaches in the individual areas of clinical medicine. Prof Torchilin is an expert in Nanomedicine and a recipient of numerous awards including the Lenin Prize in Science & Technology of the former USSR, membership in the European Academy of Sciences, and AAPS Research Achievement Award in Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery. He served as an Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School before joining Northeastern University as the Chairman of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

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