Hydrogen peroxide (HO) is suspected to promote cancer. Higher concentrations of HO have always harmed mammalian cells, other living things, as well as the environment. As well, elevated concentrations of HO might cause major health problems such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, asthma, Alzheimer's disease, etc.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMesalamine (MES) is a preferred therapeutic agent for managing various colon disorders, including inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). However, conventional oral dosage forms of MES face significant limitations, which reduce their effectiveness in managing these conditions. To overcome these challenges, advanced dosage forms of MES are essential.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMicroneedle technology revolutionizes ocular drug delivery by addressing challenges in treating ocular diseases. This review explores its potential impact, recent advancements, and clinical uses. This minimally invasive technique offers precise control of drug delivery to the eye, with various microneedle types showing the potential to penetrate barriers in the cornea and sclera, ensuring effective drug delivery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNeurodegenerative disorders (NDs) are expected to pose a significant challenge for both medicine and public health in the upcoming years due to global demographic changes. NDs are mainly represented by degeneration/loss of neurons, which is primarily accountable for severe mental illness. This neuronal degeneration leads to many neuropsychiatric problems and permanent disability in an individual.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Purpose: Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have gained incredible consideration in the biomedical field due to their flexible structural configuration, tunable pore size and tailorable surface modification. These inherent characteristics of MOFs portray numerous merits as potential drug carriers, depicting improved drug loading, site-specific drug delivery, biocompatibility, biodegradability, etc.
Review Approach: The current review article sheds light on the synthesis and use of MOFs in drug delivery applications.
Despite the high medicinal value of tiopronin, there are substantial adverse effects such as yellow skin, yellow eyes, muscle aches, etc. Therefore, there is a huge necessity to identify tiopronin using advanced sensors in provided samples. Recently, the preference for graphene quantum dots (GQDs) and inorganic nanomaterial-based fluorescent sensors for the detection of pharmaceuticals has been extensively documented due to their plentiful advantages.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPresently, the preference for chitosan (CS) and gum polysaccharides in biomedical applications including drug delivery and wound healing has been extensively documented. Despite this, the demerits of CS and gum polysaccharides such as poor mechanical properties, degradation rate, swelling, etc., limit their applications for designing biocomposite films for drug delivery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVitamins are crucial for sustaining life because they play an essential role in numerous physiological processes. Vitamin deficiencies can lead to a wide range of severe health issues. In this context, there is a need to administer vitamin supplements through appropriate routes, such as the oral route, to ensure effective treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHepatocellular carcinoma (HPTC) currently ranks as the third leading cause of cancer-related mortality, necessitating an advanced formulation strategy. Recently, lactoferrin (Lf) has been utilized as a specific targeting ligand in HPTC due to its high specificity towards the asialoglycoprotein receptor expressed in cancer cells. Therefore, we present the fabrication of an Lf-decorated carboxymethyl dextran-encased chitosan-coated europium metal-organic framework-based nanobioconjugate (Lf-CMD-CS-CUR@Eu-MOF) for targeted curcumin (CUR) delivery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPresently, there is a necessity to design novel methods because of quercetin's significant biological relevance. Therefore, we developed the rose petal-derived graphene quantum dots embedded zinc metal organic frameworks (RP-GQDs@Zn-MOFs) based fluorescence "On-Off-On" nanoprobe for quercetin sensing. Initially, RP-GQDs were synthesized using rose petal waste and then subjected to embedding into Zn-MOFs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe increased mortality rates associated with colorectal cancer highlight the pressing need for improving treatment approaches. While capsaicin (CAP) has shown promising anticancer activity, its efficacy is hampered due to low solubility, rapid metabolism, suboptimal bioavailability, and a short half-life. Therefore, this study aimed to prepare a lactoferrin-functionalized carboxymethyl dextran-coated egg albumin nanoconjugate (LF-CMD@CAP-EGA-NCs) for the targeted CAP delivery to enhance its potential for colorectal cancer therapy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDeveloping a sensing platform that can quickly and accurately measure glutathione (GSH) is crucial for the early detection of various human diseases. GQDs have shown great potential in many technological and biological applications. This study focused on synthesizing nitrogen-doped GQDs (NGQDs) with stable blue fluorescence using a simple and easy hydrothermal method in one step.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChitosan (CS) and sodium alginates (SA) have been revealed for the design of layer-by-layer (LbL) assembly to develop pharmaceutical dosage forms owing to their versatile characteristics. Recently, the preference for unique LbL assemblies in biosensor development has offered the modified performance for detection interest analyte. Beta (β)-site amyloid precursor protein-cleaving enzyme 1 (BACE-1) is a pivotal biomarker of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and demands high sensitivity and selective identification for the early-stage diagnosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFScientific fraternity revealed the potential of stimuli-responsive nanotherapeutics for cancer treatment that aids in tackling the major restrictions of traditionally reported drug delivery systems. Among stimuli-responsive inorganic nanomaterials, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have transpired as unique porous materials displaying resilient structures and diverse applications in cancer theranostics. Mainly, it demonstrates tailorable porosity, versatile chemical configuration, tunable size and shape, and feasible surface functionalization, etc.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe determination of clinically significant amounts of tau protein in bodily fluids is a major problem in Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis. As a result, the present work aims to develop a simple, label-free, fast, highly sensitive, and selective 2D carbon backbone graphene oxide (GO) patterned surface plasmon resonance (SPR) mediated affinity biosensor for Tau-441 monitoring. Initially, non-plasmonic nanosized GO was made using a modified Hummers' method, whereas green synthesized gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) were subjected to a layer-by-layer (LbL) design employing anionic and cationic polyelectrolytes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMicrowave-assisted grafting of polyacrylamide on sesbania gum (PAAM-g-SG) was implemented employing a 3 full factorial experimental design and was hydrolyzed using sodium hydroxide (NaOH) to form H-PAAM-g-SG. Further, the diclofenac sodium-loaded novel pH-sensitive interpenetrating polymeric network (IPN) microbeads were designed using an optimized H-PAAM-g-SG and sodium alginate (SA). Different spectroscopic analysis including FTIR spectroscopy, H NMR spectroscopy, elemental analysis, thermal analysis, etc.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPaclitaxel (PTX) is an essential anticancer drug from the biopharmaceutical classification system (BCS) class IV. Unfortunately, PTX has some drawbacks including low solubility, cell toxicity, adverse cell reaction, etc. Therefore, folic acid (FA) tailored carboxymethyl-dextran (CMD), and bovine serum albumin (BSA) mediated nanoconjugates of paclitaxel (PTX) (FA-CMD-BSA-PTX) were designed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLow methoxy pectin (LM pectin) suffers from burst release owing to its high swellability and solubility in water. Consequently, in ways to design an ideal drug delivery system, these obstacles must be surmounted. Therefore, the work aimed to design dual crosslinked LM pectin -neem gum (NG) mediated interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) floating mucoadhesive microbeads for lansoprazole (LNZ) gastro-retentive delivery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGreen synthesized graphene quantum dots (GQD) have been doped with nitrogen in an attempt to boost their optical characteristics and application sectors. In the present investigation, the blue luminescent nitrogen-doped GQDs (N-GQDs) were synthesized by single-step hydrothermal synthesis using tamarind shell powder as a precursor. The particle size and zeta potential of N-GQDs were found to be 11.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlzheimer's disease (AD), and its consequent effect primarily clinical dementia, Parkinson's disease dementia, etc. currently bring potential avenues for diagnosis centered on identification of beta-amyloid (Aβ). Unfortunately, techniques engaged in AD core biomarker (Aβ) detection are majorly suffering from poor sensitivity and selectivity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWith the application of the quality by design (QbD) approach, a high-pressure homogenizer (HPH) methodology was employed to develop methotrexate nanosuspension (MTX-NS) to boost bioavailability. The Ishikawa diagram was used to analyze potential risk factors in formulation development. To screen and study the impact of various formulation and process factors on the critical quality attributes (CQA), the Placket-Burman design and central composite design were utilized.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLung cancer (LC) is heading up as a substantial cause of mortality worldwide. Despite enormous progress in cancer management, LC remains a crucial problem for oncologists due to the lack of early diagnosis and precise treatment. In this context, numerous early diagnosis and treatment approaches for LC at the cellular level have been developed using advanced nanomaterials in the last decades.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSurface plasmon resonance (SPR) is an attention-grabbing sensor type, which offers the sensitive and selective detection of biomolecules and environmentally toxic substances. Notably, the SPR sensor gives excellent rewards including real-time, , and label-free measuring capability as compared to existing sensing technologies. As a result, these noteworthy merits of the SPR sensor make it straightforward to investigate the molecular events and chemical/gas molecule interaction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Nowadays, antioxidants are important for health-related concerns related to acne vulgaris. Acne vulgaris is interrelated with the development of free radicals that interact with cells. Mulberry leaves contain phenolic compounds, including antioxidants such as quercetin.
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