Basic Concepts of Nanoemulsion and its Potential application in Pharmaceutical, Cosmeceutical and Nutraceutical fields

2021 ◽  
pp. 3938-3946
Author(s):  
Heba S. Elsewedy ◽  
Bandar E. Al-Dhubiab ◽  
Mahmoud A. Mahdy ◽  
Hanan M. Elnahas
Keyword(s):  
Drug Delivery ◽  
Colloidal Dispersions ◽  
Immiscible Liquids ◽  
Pharmaceutical Dosage Form ◽  
Regulatory Aspects ◽  
Conventional Drug ◽  
Emulsifying Agent ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
Physical And Chemical

One of the widely efficient and noteworthy nanocarriers that could draw a great attention toward pharmaceutical fields is nanoemulsions (NEs). NEs are thermodynamically stable colloidal dispersions composed of two immiscible liquids, oil and water that mixed together using emulsifying agent (surfactant and co-surfactant). It regarded as pharmaceutical dosage form having droplet size within a nanometer range, hence it has extensively considered as carrier for delivering active agents. Such carrier is fabricated in order to overcome some obstacles associated with conventional drug delivery systems especially low bioavailability. The objective of this review is to present an overview about NE and its latest applications in diverse areas such as drug delivery, cosmeceutical and nutraceutical. Clarifications about different mechanisms of NEs development that are frequently used were provided. Correspondingly, popular characterization techniques for NEs such as determination of particle size, polydispersity index (PDI), zeta potential and viscosity were reviewed. Eventually, summary of physical and chemical instability in addition to the regulatory aspects of NE were provided.

THE IMPORTANCE OF THE RED BOOK OF SOILS FOR MONITORING AND JUSTIFICATION OF CONSERVATION MEASURES

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
O.S. Bezuglova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Properties ◽  
Natural State ◽  
Soil Maps ◽  
Rostov Region ◽  
Conservation Measures ◽  
Background Data ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Physical And Chemical ◽  
And Chemical Properties

Rostov Region belongs to the highly protected natural territories characterized by the continuous plowing. There territories are the only reserves with the soils preserved in their natural state. However, these areas often lack detailed information about the soils quality and composition. Surveying soils on these territories is crucial for determination of their basic physical and chemical properties. The resulted compilation of soil maps could lay a foundation for creating the Red Book of Soils and the formation of a section in the soil-geographical database of the Russian Federation. Subsequently, such information can be used as a background data for the main types of soils in the region. It will be also valuable during monitoring and justification of conservation measures.

Novel Topical Drug Delivery Approaches for the Management of Psoriasis

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 5062-5068
Author(s):  
Bhumika Kumar ◽  
Monika Targhotra ◽  
Rohan Aggarwal ◽  
Sahoo P.K
Keyword(s):  
Drug Delivery ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Skin Area ◽  
Treatment Approaches ◽  
Treatment Regimens ◽  
Skin Cell ◽  
Conventional Drug ◽  
Severity Of The Disease ◽  
Novel Drug ◽  
Disease Location

Psoriasis is one of the most stern and persistent autoimmune disease which affects about 1-3% population around the globe.  It influences an individual’s life quality by hindering them physically, socially and emotionally. The hyperproliferation of keratinocytes leads to excessive growth of skin cell which causes scaling and formation of plaques. Psoriasis can be mild moderate or severe depending on the percentage of skin area affected. Based on severity of the disease, location and the type of psoriasis, the treatment approaches can vary. Treatment regimens for psoriasis include topical therapies, systemic therapies and phototherapy. Conventional drug delivery approaches face various disadvantages therefore a need for better novel drug delivery system is required. The review paper focuses at providing a broad aspect of psoriasis and the novel treatment approaches which can help in tackling the disease.  

Stability Indicating Liquid Chromatographic Method for the Determination of Fenofibrate and its Application to Kinetic Studies

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 1866-1874
Author(s):  
K. Srinivasa Rao ◽  
Keshar N K ◽  
N Jena ◽  
M.E.B Rao ◽  
A K Patnaik
Keyword(s):  
Degradation Products ◽  
Kinetic Studies ◽  
Pharmaceutical Formulations ◽  
Assay Method ◽  
Pharmaceutical Dosage Form ◽  
Stability Indicating ◽  
Zero Order Kinetics ◽  
Relative Standard ◽  
Liquid Chromatographic

A stability-indicating LC assay method was developed for the quantitative determination of fenofibrate (FFB) in pharmaceutical dosage form in the presence of its degradation products and kinetic determinations were evaluated in acidic, alkaline and peroxide degradation conditions. Chromatographic separation was achieved by use of Zorbax C18 column (250 × 4.0 mm, 5 μm). The mobile phase was established by mixing phosphate buffer (pH adjusted 3 with phosphoric acid) and acetonitrile (30:70 v/v). FFB degraded in acidic, alkaline and hydrogen peroxide conditions, while it was more stable in thermal and photolytic conditions. The described method was linear over a range of 1.0-500 μg/ml for determination of FFB (r= 0.9999). The precision was demonstrated by relative standard deviation (RSD) of intra-day (RSD= 0.56– 0.91) and inter-day studies (RSD= 1.47). The mean recovery was found to be 100.01%. The acid and alkaline degradations of FFB in 1M HCl and 1M NaOH solutions showed an apparent zero-order kinetics with rate constants 0.0736 and 0.0698  min−1 respectively and the peroxide degradation with 5% H2O2 demonstrated an apparent first-order kinetics with rate constant k = 0.0202 per min. The t1/2, t90   values are also determined for all the kinetic studies. The developed method was found to be simple, specific, robust, linear, precise, and accurate for the determination of FFB in pharmaceutical formulations.  

Lipospheres: Emerging Carriers in the Delivery of Proteins and Peptides

1970 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-214
Author(s):  
Manju Rawat ◽  
Swarnlata Saraf
Keyword(s):  
Drug Delivery ◽  
Protein Stability ◽  
Biodegradable Polymers ◽  
Clinical Utility ◽  
Physicochemical Characteristics ◽  
Peptide Delivery ◽  
Chemical Instabilities ◽  
Physical And Chemical ◽  
Proteins And Peptides

Currently, drug delivery technologies for protein and peptide delivery mainly rely on biodegradable polymers. However, protein stability during release from these systems can be critical due to physical and chemical instabilities. Lipospheres are solid microparticles composed of fat core stabilized by phospholipids layer represent an alternative carrier for the delivery of highly challenging, labile and unstable  substances. This review highlights various aspects of lipospheres like physicochemical characteristics and stability for better clinical utility with a wider spectrum of proteins and peptides.

Atherosclerosis and Nanomedicine Potential: Current Advances and Future Opportunities

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (21) ◽  
pp. 3534-3554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fan Jiang ◽  
Yunqi Zhu ◽  
Changyang Gong ◽  
Xin Wei
Keyword(s):  
Drug Delivery ◽  
Drug Delivery Systems ◽  
Controlled Drug Delivery ◽  
Vascular Wall ◽  
Arterial Disease ◽  
Diagnosis And Treatment ◽  
Antiinflammatory Therapy ◽  
Limited Efficacy ◽  
Conventional Drug ◽  
Diagnostic Modalities

Atherosclerosis is the leading inducement of cardiovascular diseases, which ranks the first cause of global deaths. It is an arterial disease associated with dyslipidemia and changes in the composition of the vascular wall. Besides invasive surgical strategy, the current conservative clinical treatment for atherosclerosis falls into two categories, lipid regulating-based therapy and antiinflammatory therapy. However, the existing strategies based on conventional drug delivery systems have shown limited efficacy against disease development and plenty of side effects. Nanomedicine has great potential in the development of targeted therapy, controlled drug delivery and release, the design of novel specific drugs and diagnostic modalities, and biocompatible scaffolds with multifunctional characteristics, which has led to an evolution in the diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis. This paper will focus on the latest nanomedicine strategies for atherosclerosis diagnosis and treatment as well as discussing the potential therapeutic targets during atherosclerosis progress, which could form the basis of development of novel nanoplatform against atherosclerosis.

Therapeutic Nanoemulsion: Concept to Delivery

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (11) ◽  
pp. 1145-1166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. A. Barkat ◽  
Harshita ◽  
Md. Rizwanullah ◽  
Faheem H. Pottoo ◽  
Sarwar Beg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Delivery ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Droplet Size ◽  
Heterogeneous System ◽  
Dosage Form ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Immiscible Liquids

: Nanoemulsions (NEs) or nanometric-scaled emulsions are transparent or translucent, optically isotropic and kinetically stable heterogeneous system of two different immiscible liquids namely, water and oil stabilized with an amphiphilic surfactant having droplet size ranges up to 100 nm. They offer a variety of potential interests for certain applications: improved deep-rooted stability; excellent optical clarity; and, enhanced bioavailability due to its nanoscale of particles. Though there is still comparatively narrow insight apropos design, development, and optimization of NEs, which mainly stems from the fact that conventional characteristics of emulsion development and stabilization only partly apply to NEs. The contemporary article focuses on the nanoemulsion dosage form journey from concept to key application in drug delivery. In addition, industrial scalability of the nanoemulsion, as well as its presence in commercial and clinical practice, are also addressed.

Alzheimer’s Disease Targeted Nano-Based Drug Delivery Systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 628-646
Author(s):  
Gülcem Altinoglu ◽  
Terin Adali
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Drug Delivery ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Neurological Diseases ◽  
Sustained Drug Release ◽  
Physiochemical Properties ◽  
Conventional Drug ◽  
Health Care Burden ◽  
The Central Nervous System ◽  
Effective Drugs

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease, and is part of a massive and growing health care burden that is destroying the cognitive function of more than 50 million individuals worldwide. Today, therapeutic options are limited to approaches with mild symptomatic benefits. The failure in developing effective drugs is attributed to, but not limited to the highly heterogeneous nature of AD with multiple underlying hypotheses and multifactorial pathology. In addition, targeted drug delivery to the central nervous system (CNS), for the diagnosis and therapy of neurological diseases like AD, is restricted by the challenges posed by blood-brain interfaces surrounding the CNS, limiting the bioavailability of therapeutics. Research done over the last decade has focused on developing new strategies to overcome these limitations and successfully deliver drugs to the CNS. Nanoparticles, that are capable of encapsulating drugs with sustained drug release profiles and adjustable physiochemical properties, can cross the protective barriers surrounding the CNS. Thus, nanotechnology offers new hope for AD treatment as a strong alternative to conventional drug delivery mechanisms. In this review, the potential application of nanoparticle based approaches in Alzheimer’s disease and their implications in therapy is discussed.

Improved drug delivery system for cancer treatment by D-glucose conjugation with eugenol from natural product

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mas Amira Idayu Abdul Razak ◽  
Haslinda Abdul Hamid ◽  
Raja Nor Izawati Raja Othman ◽  
Shaik Alaudeen Mohd Moktar ◽  
Azizi Miskon
Keyword(s):  
Drug Delivery ◽  
Water Solubility ◽  
Osteosarcoma Cell ◽  
Drug Effectiveness ◽  
H Nmr ◽  
Proliferative Effect ◽  
Conventional Drug ◽  
Ic50 Value ◽  
Glucose Conjugation ◽  
Diphenyl Tetrazolium Bromide

Introduction: Bioconjugations are swiftly progressing and are being applied to solve several limitations of conventional drug delivery systems (DDS) such as lack of water solubility, non-specific, and poor bioavailability. The main goals of DDS are to achieve greater drug effectiveness and minimize toxicity to the healthy tissues. Objectives: In this study, D-glucose was conjugated with eugenol to target the cancer cells. To identify the implication of the anticancer effect, osteosarcoma (K7M2) cells were cultured and the anti-proliferative effect was performed using MTT [3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide assay] test in order to evaluate the viability and toxicity on cells with various concentrations of eugenol and D-glucose-eugenol conjugate in 24-hour incubation. Results: It was found that, the successful confirmation of the conjugation between D-glucose and eugenol was obtained by 1 H NMR spectroscopy. MTT assay showed inhibitory concentration (IC50 value) of D-glucose-eugenol was at 96.2 µg/ml and the decreased of osteosarcoma cell survival was 48%. Conclusion: These findings strongly indicate that K7M2 cells would be affected by toxicity of D-glucose-eugenol. Therefore, the present study suggests that D-glucose-eugenol has high potential to act as an anti-proliferative agent who may promise a new modality or approach as the drug delivery treatment for cancer or chemotherapeutic agent.

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