Over the last decades, alginates, natural multifunctional polymers, have increasingly drawn
attention as attractive compounds in the biomedical and pharmaceutical fields due to their …

The application of hydrocolloid gel particles is potentially useful in food, chemical, and
pharmaceutical industries. Alginate gel particles are one of the more commonly used …

Natural occurring polymers, or biopolymers, represent a huge part of our planet biomass.
They are formed by long chains of monomers of the same type or a combination of different …

Oral administration is a desirable alternative of parenteral administration due to the
convenience and increased compliance to patients, especially for chronic diseases that …

Introduction: Oral delivery of therapeutics, particularly protein-based pharmaceutics, is of
great interest for safe and controlled drug delivery for patients. Hydrogels offer excellent …

The protein pharmaceutical market is rapidly growing, since it is gaining support from the
recombinant DNA technology. To deliver these drugs via the oral route, the most preferred …

Modified alginates have a wide range of applications, including in the manufacture of
dressings and scaffolds used for regenerative medicine, in systems for selective drug …

The potential of nanoparticles (NPs) to overcome the barriers for oral delivery of protein
drugs have led to the development of platforms capable of improving their bioavailability …

Bioencapsulation involves the envelopment of tissues or biological active substances in
semipermeable membranes. Bioencapsulation has been shown to be efficacious in …

Bombyx mori silk fibroin self-assembles on surfaces to form ultrathin nanoscale coatings
based on our prior studies using layer-by-layer deposition techniques driven by hydrophobic …