Special issue: Cyclodextrin-Based Drug Delivery System and Its Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Application 2024

This Special Issue in Pharmaceuticals intends to host research and review papers on the development of novel cyclodextrin-based drug delivery systems performed in the scientific areas of pharmaceutical technology, chemistry, physics, and biology. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, drug–cyclodextrin interactions, cyclodextrin-based nanoparticles, cyclodextrin in liposomes, cyclodextrins as drugs, cyclodextrin dimers and polymers, biological in vitro/ex vivo/in vivo evaluation of cyclodextrin-based formulations, cyclodextrin–cell interactions, cyclodextrin-based hydrogels, and regenerative medicine.

Guest Editors:

Prof. Dr. Cinzia Anna Ventura

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Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
Interests: drug delivery; drug/cyclodextrin inclusion complexes; polymeric nanoparticles; cancer diseases; antimicrobial drugs; Alzheimer’s disease

Dr. Federica De Gaetano

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Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences, University of Messina, Viale Ferdinando Stagno d’Alcontres 31, 98166 Messina, Italy

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 January 2025

The papers published so far:

Cyclodextrin-Nanosponge-Loaded Cyclo-Oxygenase-2 Inhibitor-Based Topical Gel for Treatment of Psoriatic Arthritis: Formulation Design, Development, and In vitro Evaluations

by Umme Hani,Sharanya Paramshetti,Mohit Angolkar,Wajan Khalid Alqathanin,Reema Saeed Alghaseb,Saja Mohammed Al Asmari,Alhanouf A. Alsaab,Farhat Fatima,Riyaz Ali M. Osmani andRavi Gundawar

Pharmaceuticals 2024, 17(12), 1598; https://doi.org/10.3390/ph17121598 – 27 Nov 2024

Effect of Cyclodextrins Formulated in Liposomes and Gold and Selenium Nanoparticles on siRNA Stability in Cell Culture Medium

by Betzaida Castillo Cruz,Sandra Chinapen Barletta,Bryan G. Ortiz Muñoz,Adriana S. Benitez-Reyes,Omar A. Amalbert Perez,Alexander C. Cardona Amador,Pablo E. Vivas-Mejia andGabriel L. Barletta

Pharmaceuticals 2024, 17(10), 1344; https://doi.org/10.3390/ph17101344 – 8 Oct 2024

Enhancement of Cognitive Function by Andrographolide-Loaded Lactose β-Cyclodextrin Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Optimization, and Behavioural Assessment

by Debashish Paramanick,Kagithala Naga Rani,Vijay Kumar Singh,Parakh Basist,Rahmuddin Khan,Jameel H. Al-Tamimi,Omar M. Noman,Mansour N. Ibrahim andAbdulsalam Alhalmi

Pharmaceuticals 2024, 17(7), 966; https://doi.org/10.3390/ph17070966 – 21 Jul 2024

Investigation on the Combined Effect of Hydroxypropyl Beta-Cyclodextrin (HPβCD) and Polysorbate in Monoclonal Antibody Formulation

by Jiayi Huang,Shiqi Hong,Lucas Yuan Hao Goh,Hailong Zhang,Tao Peng,Keat Theng Chow,Rajeev Gokhale andVinod Tuliani

Pharmaceuticals 2024, 17(4), 528; https://doi.org/10.3390/ph17040528 – 19 Apr 2024

Chrysin Directing an Enhanced Solubility through the Formation of a Supramolecular Cyclodextrin–Calixarene Drug Delivery System: A Potential Strategy in Antifibrotic Diabetes Therapeutics

by Anca Hermenean,Eleftheria Dossi,Alex Hamilton,Maria Consiglia Trotta,Marina Russo,Caterina Claudia Lepre,Csilla Sajtos,Ágnes Rusznyák,Judit Váradi,Ildikó Bácskay,István Budai,Michele D’Amico andFerenc Fenyvesi

Pharmaceuticals 2024, 17(1), 107; https://doi.org/10.3390/ph17010107 – 12 Jan 2024

Cyclodextrins for the Delivery of Bioactive Compounds from Natural Sources: Medicinal, Food and Cosmetics Applications

by Stamatia Christaki,Eleni Spanidi,Eleni Panagiotidou,Sophia Athanasopoulou,Anastasia Kyriakoudi,Ioannis Mourtzinos andKonstantinos Gardikis

Pharmaceuticals 2023, 16(9), 1274; https://doi.org/10.3390/ph16091274 – 8 Sep 2023