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Nanocrystals for enhancement of oral bioavailability of poorly water-soluble drugs

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For oral administration, many publications reported useful advantages of nanocrystals to improve in vivo performances i.e. pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, safety and tar- geted delivery which were discussed in this review.
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This article is published in Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences.The article was published on 2015-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 323 citations till now.

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Therapeutic Nanoparticles and Their Targeted Delivery Applications.

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Multifunctional nanocrystals for cancer therapy: a potential nanocarrier

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Supercritical carbon dioxide-based technologies for the production of drug nanoparticles/nanocrystals - A comprehensive review.

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Nanocrystals of Poorly Soluble Drugs: Drug Bioavailability and Physicochemical Stability

TL;DR: The present work provides an overview of the achievements in improving the bioavailability of poorly soluble drugs according to their administration route, describes the methods developed to overcome physicochemical and stability-related problems, and reviews different stabilizers and surface agents that are able to modify the drug delivery and targeting.
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Drug nanocrystals of poorly soluble drugs produced by high pressure homogenisation

TL;DR: The physical background of the diminution process, effects of production parameters (power density, number of homogenisation cycles) on crystal size, clinical batch production and scaling up of the production are presented.
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Nanosizing--oral formulation development and biopharmaceutical evaluation.

TL;DR: The principles behind nanosizing, the production and characterization of nanoformulations as well as the current experience with utilization of such formulations in vivo are described.
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Nanocrystal technology, drug delivery and clinical applications

TL;DR: The physics behind the drug nanocrystals and changes of their physical properties are discussed, and the special physical effects of nanocry crystals explained which are utilized in each market product.
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Particle size reduction for improvement of oral bioavailability of hydrophobic drugs: I. Absolute oral bioavailability of nanocrystalline danazol in beagle dogs

TL;DR: In this paper, a randomized crossover study was conducted in fasted male beagle dogs to compare absolute oral bioavailability of danazol from three formulations, i.e., an aqueous dispersion of nanoparticulate Danazol (mean particle size 169 nm), B, danazOL-hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin (HPB) complex, C, an aiquous suspension of conventional DanazOL particles (means particle size 10 μm).
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Top-Down Production of Drug Nanocrystals - Nanosuspension Stabilization, Miniaturization and Transformation Into Solid Products

TL;DR: This mini-review focuses on recent advances with respect to three topics considering drug nanocrystals, focussing on the maintenance of the preservation of the rapid dissolution properties of the nanocry crystals after further downstream processing.
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