Electroporation-Mediated Drug and Gene Delivery
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Drug Delivery and Controlled Release".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 278
Special Issue Editors
Interests: electroporation; electrochemotherapy; pulsed electric fields; FEM modelling; nanosecond electrochemotherapy; cancer; numerical modelling
Interests: extracellular vesicles; electroporation; anti-cancer medicinal plants; cell migration
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to present this Special Issue on "Electroporation-Mediated Drug and Gene Delivery", focusing on the transformative potential of electroporation in biomedical applications. Electroporation, a technique using pulsed electric fields to enhance cell membrane permeability, has shown tremendous promise in biomedical applications by improving the delivery efficiency of drugs and genes. The benefits that it offers make it a vital area of study. However, to fully exploit the capabilities of electroporation and enhance its efficiency, deeper insights into the molecular mechanisms of drug and gene delivery are essential. This Special Issue seeks innovative research on pharmaceutical substances and the incorporation of chemical and physical methods, novel pulsed electric field protocols, their molecular interactions, and advanced analytical and numerical methods to deepen our understanding of the field, leading to more efficient electroporation-based treatments. We invite you to submit innovative research in the form of reviews, original research articles, and communications. By advancing our knowledge in these areas, we aim to inspire further innovation and optimization in electroporation-mediated therapies, facilitating their wider application in clinical settings.
Dr. Veronika Malyško-Ptašinskė
Dr. Anna Choromańska
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- electroporation
- drug delivery
- gene electrotransfer
- electrochemotherapy
- pulsed electric field
- gene delivery
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