Among the various dosage forms, oral medicine has extensive benefits including ease of
administration and patients' compliance, over injectable, suppositories, ocular and nasal …

Oral delivery of therapeutics is the preferred route of administration due to ease of
administration which is associated with greater patient medication adherence. One major …

Mucoadhesion is the ability of materials to adhere to mucosal membranes in the human
body and provide a temporary retention. This property has been widely used to develop …

The use of chemical permeation enhancers (PEs) is the most widely tested approach to
improve oral absorption of low permeability active agents, as represented by peptides …

Thiolated polymers designated “thiomers” are obtained by covalent attachment of thiol
functionalities on the polymeric backbone of polymers. In 1998 these polymers were first …

Diabetes is a metabolic disease and is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in epidemic
proportions. A type I diabetic patient is dependent on daily injections of insulin, for survival …

Overcoming hypoxia and providing a proper microenvironment for osteogenic differentiation
are the most critical challenges in bone tissue engineering (BTE). Hydrogels with the …

Oral mucoadhesive preparations have gained increasing importance in the last decades, by
reason of numerous advantages like easy application, discrete handling and no swallowing …

The application of hollow nerve conduits in the repair of peripheral nerve defects is effected
by inferior recovery, and nerve extension is hampered by the scar tissue generated during …

Intravesical drug administration is used to deliver chemotherapeutic agents via a catheter to
treat bladder cancer. The major limitation of this treatment is poor retention of the drug in the …