Drug delivery systems future trends

Ghosh, T., and Pfister, W. Transdermal and topical delivery systems An overview and future trends, in Ghosh, T., Pfister, W., and Yum, S. (eds.), Transdermal and Topical Drug Delivery Systems. Buffalo Grove, IL Interpharm Press, 1997, pp. 1-32. 

Work groups identified several trends for the future. Major factors expected to affect pharmacy included a growing elderly population, more health promotion and wellness activities, increased efforts to prove the cost effectiveness of drugs, a decline in healthcare expenditures as a proportion of the Gross National Product, and an increase in nontraditional therapies. There would be more sophisticated drug delivery systems, and more prescription drugs would become available on a nonprescription basis. Finally, it was believed that pharmacists... 

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In this chapter, we focus on recent efforts to design and fabricate soft shape-memory materials, including both polymeric and supramolecular systems. We first classify these materials based on their micro- and nanostructure (Section 5.2.2). We then highlight how soft shape-memory materials have been applied to biomedical applications as implantables (Section 5.2.3.1), drug delivery devices (Section 5.2.3.2), and tissue engineering scaffolds (Section 5.2.3.3). In addition, we briefly discuss future trends for utilizing soft shape-memory materials for biomedical applications (Section 5.2.4). 

Jones, A. J. S., Nguyen, T. H., Cleland, J. L., and Pearlman, R., 1995, New dehvery systems for recombinant proteins— practical issues from proof of concept to clinic, in Trends and Future Perspectives in Peptide and Protein Drug Delivery (V. H. L. Lee, M. Ha da, and Y. Mizushima, eds.). Drug Targeting Dehvery Series, Harwood Academic Publishers, Amsterdam, pp. 57-67. 

In this chapter, recent studies on drug delivery and diagnostic systems using stimuli-responsive polymers are summarized from the viewpoint of interactions between the systems and the surface of the body, organs, tissues, and cells. Progress and prospect of this field are discussed, and the author s brief comments on future trends are given. 

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