scholarly journals Ophthalmic drug design based on the metabolic activity of the eye: Soft drugs and chemical delivery systems

2005 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. E820-E833 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Bodor ◽  
Peter Buchwald

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 290-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yashumati Ratan Bhardwaj ◽  
Ashutosh Pareek ◽  
Vivek Jain ◽  
Dharma Kishore


2008 ◽  
Vol 80 (8) ◽  
pp. 1669-1682 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Bodor ◽  
Peter Buchwald

Retrometabolic drug design incorporates two major systematic approaches: the design of soft drugs (SDs) and of chemical delivery systems (CDSs). Both aim to design new, safe drugs with an improved therapeutic index by integrating structure-activity and -metabolism relationships; however, they achieve it by different means: whereas SDs are new, active therapeutic agents that undergo predictable metabolism to inactive metabolites after exerting their desired therapeutic effect, CDSs are biologically inert molecules that provide enhanced and targeted delivery of an active drug to a particular organ or site through a designed sequential metabolism that involves several steps. General principles and recent developments are briefly reviewed with various illustrative examples from different therapeutic areas with special focus on soft corticosteroids and on brain targeting.





2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 360-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sahar Hosseinzadeh ◽  
Azam Bolhassani


Pharmaceutics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 725
Author(s):  
Yuseon Shin ◽  
Patihul Husni ◽  
Kioh Kang ◽  
Dayoon Lee ◽  
Sehwa Lee ◽  
...  

The combination of nanotechnology and chemotherapy has resulted in more effective drug design via the development of nanomaterial-based drug delivery systems (DDSs) for tumor targeting. Stimulus-responsive DDSs in response to internal or external signals can offer precisely controlled delivery of preloaded therapeutics. Among the various DDSs, the photo-triggered system improves the efficacy and safety of treatment through spatiotemporal manipulation of light. Additionally, pH-induced delivery is one of the most widely studied strategies for targeting the acidic micro-environment of solid tumors. Accordingly, in this review, we discuss representative strategies for designing DDSs using light as an exogenous signal or pH as an endogenous trigger.



2010 ◽  
Vol 51 (11) ◽  
pp. 5403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry F. Edelhauser ◽  
Cheryl L. Rowe-Rendleman ◽  
Michael R. Robinson ◽  
Daniel G. Dawson ◽  
Gerald J. Chader ◽  
...  






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