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Published on: March 25, 2015
Delivery systems for penetration enhancement of peptide and protein drugs: design considerations
1Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, John Stauffer Pharmaceutical Sciences Center, University of Southern California School of Pharmacy, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Abstract:
This paper discusses the challenges to be met in designing delivery systems that maximize the absorption of peptide and protein drugs from the gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts. The ideal delivery system for either route of administration is one that will release its contents only at a favorable region of absorption, where the delivery system attaches by virtue of specific interaction with surface determinants unique to that region and where the delivery system travels at a rate independent of the transitory constraints inherent of the route of administration. Such a delivery system, which is as yet unavailable, will benefit not only peptide and protein drugs, but other poorly absorbed drugs.
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