Biological Macromolecules and Nanoparticles Self-Assembling Carrier for Therapeutic Delivery
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 October 2024) | Viewed by 4680
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Interests: drug design; drug delivery; protein interactions
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The term "self-assembly" was adopted by chemists to describe the ordered arrangement of molecules; however, this term has recently come to include the synthesis of compounds that can be manipulated at the molecular level. Self-assembly technology has made it possible to design and develop new devices that can interact with cells. Consequently, this technique has attracted much attention from researchers, who aim to produce nanostructures and nanomaterials for drug delivery.
The exploitation of nanotechnology for therapeutic applications possesses benefits such as enhanced drug targeting, better cellular penetration, reduced side effects, and hence, improved therapeutic effects. These merits are mainly attributed to the small size of the formed nanostructures.
This Special Issue aims to explore the merging of self-assembly and nanotechnology techniques, a combination that can enhance the therapeutic efficacy and reduce the toxicity of loaded drugs. Achieving these ambitious goals is only possible thanks to the interaction between chemists, biologists, clinicians, and material scientists.
In this Special Issue, we invite scholars to submit original and review articles including (but not limited to) the research progress and applications of different types of self-assembled nano-drug delivery systems that have therapeutic potential in the field of biomedicine.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Giuseppina Nocca
Dr. Alessandro Arcovito
Prof. Dr. Nermeen Adel Elkasabgy
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- self-assembly
- nanotechnology
- proteins
- biological macromolecules
- drug delivery
- therapeutic applications
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