Pharmaceutical Particle Engineering via Spray Drying

R Vehring - Pharmaceutical research, 2008 - Springer
This review covers recent developments in the area of particle engineering via spray drying.
The last decade has seen a shift from empirical formulation efforts to an engineering …

Inhaling medicines: delivering drugs to the body through the lungs

JS Patton, PR Byron - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2007 - nature.com
Remarkably, with the exception of anaesthetic gases, the ancient human practice of inhaling
substances into the lungs for systemic effect has only just begun to be adopted by modern …

Large porous particles for pulmonary drug delivery

DA Edwards, J Hanes, G Caponetti, J Hrkach… - Science, 1997 - science.org
A new type of inhalation aerosol, characterized by particles of small mass density and large
size, permitted the highly efficient delivery of inhaled therapeutics into the systemic …

An overview of clinical and commercial impact of drug delivery systems

AC Anselmo, S Mitragotri - Journal of Controlled Release, 2014 - Elsevier
Drug delivery systems are widely researched and developed to improve the delivery of
pharmaceutical compounds and molecules. The last few decades have seen a marked …

The lungs as a portal of entry for systemic drug delivery

JS Patton, CS Fishburn, JG Weers - Proceedings of the American …, 2004 - atsjournals.org
The lung is naturally permeable to all small-molecule drugs studied and to many therapeutic
peptides and proteins. Absorption can be estimated using a simple animal test, intratracheal …

Dry powders for oral inhalation free of lactose carrier particles

AM Healy, MI Amaro, KJ Paluch, L Tajber - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
Dry powder inhaler (DPI) products have traditionally comprised a simple formulation of
micronised drug mixed with a carrier excipient, typically lactose monohydrate. The presence …

Clinical significance, pathogenesis, and management of postprandial hyperglycemia

JE Gerich - Archives of internal medicine, 2003 - jamanetwork.com
It is well established that strict glycemic control (hemoglobin A 1c< 7.0%) can prevent the
microvascular complications of diabetes mellitus. Recent studies indicate that elevated …

Alternative routes of insulin delivery

DR Owens, B Zinman, G Bolli - Diabetic Medicine, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Attempts at replicating physiological insulin secretion, as a means of restoring the normal
metabolic milieu and thereby minimizing the risk of diabetic complications, has become an …

Dry powder inhalers (DPIs)—a review of device reliability and innovation

N Islam, E Gladki - International journal of pharmaceutics, 2008 - Elsevier
A wide range of dry powder inhaler (DPI) devices are currently available on the market to
deliver drugs into lungs with a view to maximise drug delivery with low variability. DPIs also …

Default tips

K Haggag, G Paci - American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2014 - aeaweb.org
We examine the role of defaults in high-frequency, small-scale choices using unique data on
over 13 million New York City taxi rides. Using a regression discontinuity design, we show …