drug carrier – TechConnect Briefs

Engineering of Recombinant Spider Silk Proteins Allows Defined Drug Uptake and Release

Scheibel T., Unibersity of BAyreuth, DE

Drug delivery systems allow tissue / cell specific targeting of drugs in order to reduce total drug amounts administered to an organism and potential side effects upon systemic drug delivery. Most drug delivery systems are [...]

Nano Graphene Oxide as Drug Carrier for Antihypertensive Agent: Benazepril, Captopril and Losartan

Wang J., Long Y., Tao C., Liu H., Zhu H., Zhou X., National University of Defense Technology, CN

Graphene oxide (GO) offers large surface and novel biocompatible properties that are currently being explored for advanced drug carriers. GO has a one-atom-thick two dimensional carbon system, which contains several kinds of oxygen functional groups [...]

Nanotoxicity Assessment toward the Applications of Carbon Nanotubes as a Small Biomolecule Carrier in Drug Delivery Systems

Sharma A., Sharma R., Kwon S., Baktur R., Sharma A., Sharma R., Utah State University, US

Carbon Nanotube (CNT) materials has superior properties in electric current carrying capacity, thermal conductivity, and thermal stability. Due to their structure with high aspect ratio, they have structural unusual toxicity and complicate safety issue in [...]

Freeze-fracture Electron Microscopy on Nanostructures for Drug & Gene Delivery

Papahadjopoulos-Sternberg B., NanoAnalytical Laboratory, US

The potency of drug/gene-loaded carriers is frequently depending upon their morphology adopted in a biological relevant environment. Freeze-fracture electron microscopy/1/ is not only a powerful technique to characterize drug/gene carrier on a nanometer resolution scale/2,4-11/ [...]