The use of new sophisticated and highly surface sensitive techniques as synchrotron based
X-ray scattering techniques and in-house infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy …

Phospholipids are one of the major structural elements of biological membranes. Due to
their amphiphilic character, they can adopt various molecular assemblies when dispersed in …

Lipid monolayers provide our lungs and eyes their functionality and serve as proxy systems
in biomembrane research. Therefore, lipid monolayers have been studied intensively …

Over the past two decades, numerous types of nanoparticles (NPs) have been developed for
medical applications; however only a few nanomedicines are actually available on the …

Therapeutic liposomal powders (ie, lipospheres and proliposomes) for dry powder
inhalation aerosol delivery, formulated with phospholipids similar to endogenous lung …

Background Carbon nanotubes are increasingly being tested for use in cellular applications.
Determining the mode of entry is essential to control and regulate specific interactions with …

Pulmonary inhalation chemotherapeutic drug delivery offers many advantages for lung
cancer patients in comparison to conventional systemic chemotherapy. Inhalable particles …

Respirable microparticles/nanoparticles of the antibiotics vancomycin (VCM) and
clarithromycin (CLM) were successfully designed and developed by novel organic solution …

Lung surfactant and a tear film lipid layer are examples of biologically relevant
macromolecular structures found at the air–water interface. Because of their complexity, they …

Lipids, and phosphatidylcholines in particular, are major components in cell membranes
and in human lung surfactant. Their ability to encapsulate or form stable layers suggests a …