What are the best materials for drug encapsulation to deliever into Lung?

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What is the experimental water-octanol partition coefficient of cholesterol?

Please, send a paper on this subject If you have or know about It.

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Can anyone suggest a literature about small interference RNA (siRNA)?

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What is the most suitable PEG for encapsulating peptides in order to reach the alveoli regions by inhalation?

I would like to make PEG-peptides nanoparticules to reach the alveoli regions by inhalation.

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What is the reproducibility of the umbrella sampling for calculating free energies in order to estimate the oil-water partition coefficient?

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How to build reduced coarse grained models for phospholipids with two ir three beads?

Please, tell me any good paper or web site to download models.

04 May 2018 6,176 1 View

What is the best suitable method for measuring the partition coefficient logP (or distribution coefficient, logD) for ionizable compounds (drugs)?

Potentiometric or HPLC?

04 May 2018 8,296 0 View

Have you worked with beta-defensin-3 as an antimicrobial agent? What is its effect in the lung surfactant?

I am interest in getting more information on the interaction of beta-defensin-3 with lung surfactant and bacteria.

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Have you worked with Naringenin and Naringin as antimicrobial agents? What is the effect of their interaction with lung surfactant and bacteria?

I am interested in getting more information about this subject.

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How can I perform error analysis in umbrella sampling simulations?

Do you have any program to evaluate the statistical error in umbrella sampling?

01 February 2018 3,488 0 View

Has anyone encapsulated antimicrobial peptides for drug deliever to lung?

Please, let me know any procedure or paper about this subject.

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I am interested in medicinal chemistry field, which books are highly recommended to learn from?

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What is the state of the drug inside solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs)?

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Hello, I was just wondering how does a antibody have full intact antibody + half antibody? Is it because of the drug conjugation?

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How do I choose contrasts in SPM8?

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How to empty large intestine in mice ?

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Can I use a protein-devoid condition as my negative control in ELISA?

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How does the injection volume impact LLOQ and ULOQ in regression analysis (LC-MSMS)?

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Can two EC50 values with different hill slopes be compared?

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Does anyone have any ideas why drug-resistant malaria is increasing in Southeast Asia even when those drugs are no longer used?

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Pertti Bert Hakkinen

You could begin by taking a close look at the results of PubMed searches, Included as examples are a 2015 publication on "Pulmonary drug delivery: a review on nanocarriers for antibacterial chemotherapy" and 2013 ones on "Treatment of lung cancer using nanoparticle drug delivery systems" and "Aerosol generation using nanometer liposome suspensions for pulmonary drug delivery applications."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26203182

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23363233

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23738780

Andre Silva Pimentel

Thanks. I am going to read them.