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Pulmonary Delivery of Inhalable Nanoparticles: Dry Powder Inhalers [PDF]

open access: possibleTherapeutic Delivery, 2011
Pulmonary administration of inhalable nanoparticles (NPs) is an emerging area of interest. Dry powder inhalers may offer particular advantages for pulmonary administration of NPs. This article reviews research performed on the formulation of inhalable NPs as dry powder to achieve deep-lung deposition and enhance NP redispersibility.
Muhammad Sarfraz   +8 more
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Inhaled Therapies for Pulmonary Hypertension

Respiratory Care, 2015
The inhaled route has a number of attractive features for treatment of pulmonary hypertension, including delivery of drug directly to the target organ, thus enhancing pulmonary specificity and reducing systemic adverse effects. It can also improve ventilation/perfusion matching by dilating vessels supplying ventilated regions, thus improving gas ...
Kari E. Roberts   +2 more
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Milk antibodies in pulmonary inhalation

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 1983
ABSTRACT. To determine the association between inhalation and increased circulating milk antibodies, the presence of milk precipitins and haemagglutinating titres of antibody to casein and lactalbumin were determined in a series of 100 children studied by radionuclide ‘milk scan’and/or barium swallow for possible milk inhalation.
A. S. Kemp   +3 more
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Pulmonary effects of marijuana inhalation

Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine, 2011
Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug around the world. It is most often consumed through smoking, placing the respiratory system in direct contact with the toxic constituents of the drug, which are similar to those of tobacco cigarettes. However, accurate study of the adverse effects of marijuana is difficult to perform, owing to marijuana ...
Matthew T. Naughton, Megan L Howden
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Pulmonary manifestations of inhaled street drugs

Heart & Lung, 1998
S ince 1611, when the Jamestown colonists first harvested tobacco, America has witnessed almost 4 centuries of inhalation drug abuse. The first general misuse of tobacco and drugs (opiates) occurred during the 16th century, when these substances were used as a substitute for legal currency.1 Drug scares have come and gone in cycles.
Monroe Karetzky   +5 more
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Inhaled Prostanoids in the Therapy of Pulmonary Hypertension

Journal of Aerosol Medicine and Pulmonary Drug Delivery, 2008
Prostacyclin and prostacyclin analogues are potent vasodilators and possess antithrombotic, anti-inflammatory and antiproliferative properties. These properties qualify them as efficient drugs for the treatment of pulmonary hypertension, a life-threatening illness characterized by an increase in artery pressure and vascular resistance in the pulmonary ...
Werner Seeger   +2 more
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Inhalational Drug Delivery in Pulmonary Aspergillosis

Critical Reviews™ in Therapeutic Drug Carrier Systems, 2019
Pulmonary infections have long represented one of the major threats to humans. These vary from acute to chronic conditions, depending upon the underlying disease of the airways. Pulmonary aspergillosis (PMAP) has raised vital concerns in the immunocompromised patients.
Ranjot Kaur   +6 more
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Pulmonary Inhalation Injury

1995
The toxic effects of inhaling smoke were first documented following the Cleveland Clinic disaster in Ohio on 15 May 1929 and later after the Coconut Grove Nightclub Fire in Boston on 28 November 1942.
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Pulmonary oedema associated with hydrocarbon inhalation

Intensive Care Medicine, 1977
A patient with gross pulmonary oedema secondary to inhalation of paint fumes is described. Treatment with mechanical ventilation and positive end expiratory pressure was required.
M. Miller, N. Buchanan, R. D. Cane
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Inhalation of Ethyl Alcohol for Pulmonary Edema

New England Journal of Medicine, 1951
TREATMENT of experimental pulmonary edema with ethyl alcohol as an antifoaming agent has been described by Luisada.1 However, no clinical experience with this agent has as yet appeared in the liter...
Abraham Gootnick   +2 more
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