Recent advances in the formulation of PLGA microparticles for controlled drug delivery

E Lagreca, V Onesto, C Di Natale, S La Manna… - Progress in …, 2020 - Springer
Polymeric microparticles (MPs) are recognized as very popular carriers to increase the
bioavailability and bio-distribution of both lipophilic and hydrophilic drugs. Among different …

Recent development in nanoencapsulation and delivery of natural bioactives through chitosan scaffolds for various biological applications

N Yadav, D Mudgal, R Anand, S Jindal… - International journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nowadays, nano/micro-encapsulation as a pioneering technique may significantly improve
the bioavailability and durability of Natural bioactives. For this purpose, chitosan as a …

An inhalable hybrid biomimetic nanoplatform for sequential drug release and remodeling lung immune homeostasis in acute lung injury treatment

C Liu, L Xi, Y Liu, JCW Mak, S Mao, Z Wang, Y Zheng - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Interactions of lung macrophages and recruited neutrophils with the lung microenvironment
continuously aggravate the dysregulation of lung inflammation in the pathogenesis of acute …

Improving the efficacy of inhaled drugs in cystic fibrosis: Challenges and emerging drug delivery strategies

I d'Angelo, C Conte, MI La Rotonda, A Miro… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2014 - Elsevier
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is the most common autosomal recessive disease in Caucasians
associated with early death. Although the faulty gene is expressed in epithelia throughout …

Nanomedicine approaches for the pulmonary treatment of cystic fibrosis

C Velino, F Carella, A Adamiano… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a genetic disease affecting today nearly 70,000 patients worldwide
and characterized by a hypersecretion of thick mucus difficult to clear arising from the …

Enhanced eradication of bacterial biofilms with DNase I-loaded silver-doped mesoporous silica nanoparticles

W Tasia, C Lei, Y Cao, Q Ye, Y He, C Xu - Nanoscale, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Deoxyribonuclease I (DNase I) was successfully loaded and delivered by silver-doped
mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSN-Ag) for biofilm treatments. This nanoformulation …

Inhalable lactoferrin–chondroitin nanocomposites for combined delivery of doxorubicin and ellagic acid to lung carcinoma

MM Abd Elwakil, MT Mabrouk, MW Helmy… - …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Aim: The use of inhalable nanomedicines can overcome the Enhanced permeation and
retention effect (EPR)-associated drawbacks in lung cancer therapy via systemic …

Developing inhaled protein therapeutics for lung diseases

AA Matthews, PLR Ee, R Ge - Molecular biomedicine, 2020 - Springer
Biologic therapeutics such as protein/polypeptide drugs are conventionally administered
systemically via intravenous injection for the treatment of diseases including lung diseases …

Targeting sialic acid residues on lung cancer cells by inhalable boronic acid-decorated albumin nanocomposites for combined chemo/herbal therapy

MM Elgohary, MW Helmy, EZA Abdelfattah… - Journal of Controlled …, 2018 - Elsevier
Etoposide (ETP), as a potential treatment for lung cancer, has limited application due to its
poor solubility, and systemic side effects. In the current study, we propose inhalable …

Rifampicin-carbohydrate spray-dried nanocomposite: a futuristic multiparticulate platform for pulmonary delivery

MM Mehanna, SM Mohyeldin… - International journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Rifampicin, a first-line anti-tuberculosis drug, was loaded into a carbohydrate-
based spray-dried nanocomposite with the aim to design a dry powder inhalation …