Dissolving microneedle patches loaded with amphotericin B microparticles for localised and sustained intradermal delivery: Potential for enhanced treatment of …

K Peng, LK Vora, IA Tekko, AD Permana… - Journal of Controlled …, 2021 - Elsevier
Fungal infections affect millions of people globally and are often unreceptive to conventional
topical or oral preparations because of low drug bioavailability at the infection site, lack of …

Nanoemulsion-based dissolving microneedle arrays for enhanced intradermal and transdermal delivery

MI Nasiri, LK Vora, JA Ershaid, K Peng… - Drug Delivery and …, 2022 - Springer
The development of dissolving microneedles (DMN) is one of the advanced technologies in
transdermal drug delivery systems, which precisely deliver the drugs through a rapid …

Antimicrobial microneedle patch for treating deep cutaneous fungal infection

P Zan, A Than, PK Duong, J Song, C Xu… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Subcutaneous fungal infection is often difficult to be treated by the conventional topical
application or oral intake of antifungal agents because of low drug bioavailability to the …

Dissolvable carboxymethyl cellulose/polyvinylpyrrolidone microneedle arrays for transdermal delivery of Amphotericin B to treat cutaneous leishmaniasis

MR Zare, M Khorram, S Barzegar, B Sarkari… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a significant public health problem caused by different
species of Leishmania parasites. Due to low skin permeability, the development of an …

Dissolving microneedle-mediated dermal delivery of itraconazole nanocrystals for improved treatment of cutaneous candidiasis

AD Permana, AJ Paredes, F Volpe-Zanutto… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The administration of conventional dosage forms of itraconazole (ITZ) for cutaneous
candidiasis treatment is limited by its poor aqueous solubility and the deep location of …

Unmet clinical needs in the treatment of systemic fungal infections: The role of amphotericin B and drug targeting

R Fernández-García, E de Pablo… - International journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Recently an increase in both the prevalence and incidence of invasive fungal infections
have been reported. The number of fungal species that can cause systemic mycoses are …

[HTML][HTML] Delivery strategies of amphotericin B for invasive fungal infections

X Wang, IS Mohammad, L Fan, Z Zhao… - … Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2021 - Elsevier
Invasive fungal infections (IFIs) represent a growing public concern for clinicians to manage
in many medical settings, with substantial associated morbidities and mortalities. Among …

Enhanced intradermal delivery of nanosuspensions of antifilariasis drugs using dissolving microneedles: a proof of concept study

AD Permana, MTC McCrudden, RF Donnelly - Pharmaceutics, 2019 - mdpi.com
Conventional oral administration of antifilariasis drugs results in nonspecific targeting of the
drugs and the intradermal delivery of nanoparticles with sizes of< 100 nm could be used to …

Eradication of superficial fungal infections by conventional and novel approaches: a comprehensive review

L Kumar, S Verma, A Bhardwaj, S Vaidya… - Artificial cells …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
During the last two decades, the occurrence of fungal infections either superficial or systemic
has been increasing. Moreover, fungal infections become more difficult to treat when they …

Amphotericin B topical microemulsion: formulation, characterization and evaluation

D Butani, C Yewale, A Misra - Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 2014 - Elsevier
The present studies were designed to develop a microemulsion (ME) formulation of
Amphotericin B (Amp B) for the treatment of invasive fungal infections. The oil phase was …