Bioavailability Enhancement of Poorly Water-Soluble Drugs: Biopharmaceutics and Technology
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2019) | Viewed by 34613
Special Issue Editor
Interests: controlled bioavailability of poorly soluble and poorly absorbable drugs; solubilization, formulation, and development of patient-centric dosage forms; advanced nano-based delivery systems using fattigation (fatty acid conjugation) and click chemistry
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Dear Colleagues,
It is well-known that approximately 40% of marketed approved drugs and about 90% of molecules in the drug discovery pipeline are poorly water-soluble. In the last decade, emerging trends in combinatorial chemistry and drug design have rendered newly developed drug molecules with higher lipophilicity, larger molecular weight, and poor water solubility. As a result, the majority of new drug development results in failure due to the poor water solubility of the drug molecules. Biopharmaceutics is comprised of the adsorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination (ADME), as well as the impact, of the physicochemical properties of the drug molecules on their in vivo performance and bioavailability.
The optimization of physicochemical properties of such poorly water-soluble molecules for enhanced solubility, dissolution, and ultimately enhanced bioavailability is the most important prerequisite for pharmaceutical researchers to develop drug products. To overcome the poor water solubility of drugs, various approaches to enhance the dissolution rate include solid dispersion, salt formation, supercritical fluid technology, prodrugs, co-crystal formation, cyclodextrin complexes, lipid-based formulations, and nanoparticle drug delivery systems. The continuous development of the new formulation and pharmaceutical technology for poorly water-soluble drugs is highly desired for faster and better development of new drugs. Furthermore, the convergence of diverse technologies is also recommended for the modulation of the release rate and enhanced bioavailability for better patient adherence.
This Special Issue is aimed at highlighting the latest progress and research of pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical technologies for the enhanced dissolution and bioavailability of poorly water soluble drugs.
Prof. Dr. Beom-Jin Lee
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Solubility
- Dissolution
- Bioavailability
- Poorly water soluble
- Biopharmaceutics
- Formulation
- Pharmaceutical technology
- Patient adherence
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