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Post by harryx1 on Oct 19, 2015 9:01:39 GMT -5
Variation of pharmacokinetic profiles of some antidiabetic drugs from nanostructured formulations administered through pulmonary route benthamscience.com/journals/current-drug-metabolism/article/135824/Editor-in-Chief: Michael Sinz Bristol Myers Squibb Wallingford, CT USA Abstract Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin, or when the body cannot effectively use the insulin it produces. WHO projects that diabetes death will be double between 2005 and 2030, where 347 million people worldwide have diabetes as per the report of 2013. The increase in the prevalence of diabetes is due to three influences - lifestyle, ethnicity, and age. Current challenges in diabetes management include optimizing the use of the already available therapies to ensure adequate glycemic condition, blood pressure, lipid control and to reduce complications. At present, several pieces of research have been focusing on new management options for diabetes. Among these options, the use of nanomedicine is becoming an eye catching and most promising. Currently, nanoparticles and nanoliposomes are thrust areas of research to treat any deadly disease like diabetes. These drug delivery systems ultimately result in longer circulation half-lives, improved drug pharmacokinetics, reduced side effects of therapeutically active substances that may be insulin and non-insulin. Moreover, the pulmonary route is the most promising alternative route of drug delivery since it is non-invasive and lungs have a large surface area for absorption of drugs, richly supplied by capillary network. Thus, the present review summarizes the pharmacokinetic parameters and challenges in the field of nanoparticles and nanoliposomes of insulin and other antidiabetic drugs given through pulmonary route to treat diabetes effectively.
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Post by rrtzmd on Oct 19, 2015 11:42:16 GMT -5
Variation of pharmacokinetic profiles of some antidiabetic drugs from nanostructured formulations administered through pulmonary route benthamscience.com/journals/current-drug-metabolism/article/135824/Editor-in-Chief: Michael Sinz Bristol Myers Squibb Wallingford, CT USA Abstract Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin, or when the body cannot effectively use the insulin it produces. WHO projects that diabetes death will be double between 2005 and 2030, where 347 million people worldwide have diabetes as per the report of 2013. The increase in the prevalence of diabetes is due to three influences - lifestyle, ethnicity, and age. Current challenges in diabetes management include optimizing the use of the already available therapies to ensure adequate glycemic condition, blood pressure, lipid control and to reduce complications. At present, several pieces of research have been focusing on new management options for diabetes. Among these options, the use of nanomedicine is becoming an eye catching and most promising. Currently, nanoparticles and nanoliposomes are thrust areas of research to treat any deadly disease like diabetes. These drug delivery systems ultimately result in longer circulation half-lives, improved drug pharmacokinetics, reduced side effects of therapeutically active substances that may be insulin and non-insulin. Moreover, the pulmonary route is the most promising alternative route of drug delivery since it is non-invasive and lungs have a large surface area for absorption of drugs, richly supplied by capillary network. Thus, the present review summarizes the pharmacokinetic parameters and challenges in the field of nanoparticles and nanoliposomes of insulin and other antidiabetic drugs given through pulmonary route to treat diabetes effectively. Thanks, but I often wonder whether such articles are merely to pad curriculum vitae. Similar articles about nano-this and nano-that have come out multiple times a year for the past 15-20 years. They always seem to say the same things over and over, but rarely impart any real useful information.
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