Bletilla striata has been used for thousands of years and shows the functions of stopping
bleeding, reducing swelling, and promoting healing in traditional applications. For Bletilla …

Gellan gum is an anionic linear polysaccharide well known for its use as a multi-functional
gelling, stabilising and suspending agent in a variety of foods and personal care products. In …

Biomimetic hydrogels have emerged as the most useful tissue engineering scaffold
materials. Their versatile chemistry can recapitulate multiple physical and chemical features …

Controlled release is of vital relevance for many drugs; thus, there is a keen interest in
materials that can improve the release profiles of formulations administered via buccal …

Sun J, Zhou Z. Drug Des Devel Ther. 2018; 12: 383–389. The Editor and Publisher of the
Drug Design, Development and Therapy wish to retract the published article. Concerns were …

Antibiotics delivered through conventional dosage against ophthalmic infections show lower
therapeutic efficacy due to their low residence time. Therefore, there is a great need to …

Photodynamic and photothermal cell killing at the surface of tissues finds applications in
medicine. However, a lack of control over heat dissipation following a treatment with light …

Gelatin is a biocompatible, biodegradable and fully absorbable biopolymer. These
properties have attracted significant interests in the use of gelatin for a wide range of tissue …

Stimuli-responsive drug delivery systems have attracted widespread attention in recent
years since they can control drug release in a spatiotemporal manner and can achieve …

Ophthalmic drug delivery is one of the most attractive and challenging research area for
pharmaceutical scientists and ophthalmologists. Absorption of an ophthalmic drug in …