Journal
JOURNAL OF CONTROLLED RELEASE
Volume 147, Issue 3, Pages 314-325Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2010.07.122
Keywords
Pulsatile drug delivery; Circadian rhythm; Approaches; Stimuli; Chronopharmaceutical technology
Funding
- University Grants Commission, Ministry of Human Resource Development, New Delhi, India
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With the advancement in the field of chronobiology, modern drug delivery approaches have been elevated to a new concept of chronopharmacology i.e. the ability to deliver the therapeutic agent to a patient in a staggered profile. However the major drawback in the development of such delivery system that matches the circadian rhythm requires the availability of precise technology (pulsatile drug delivery). The increasing research interest surrounding this delivery system has widened the areas of pharmaceutics in particular with many more sub-disciplines expected to coexist in the near future. This review on chronopharmaceutics gives a comprehensive emphasis on potential disease targets, revisits the existing technologies in hand and also addresses the theoretical approaches to emerging discipline such as genetic engineering and target based specific molecules. With the biological prospective approaches in delivering drugs it is well understood that safer and more realistic approaches in the therapy of diseases will be achieved in the days to come. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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