Spray-dried fucoidan microparticles for pulmonary delivery of antitubercular drugs

Pulmonary tuberculosis accounts for 80% of cases and the delivery of antitubercular drugs into the lungs allows targeting the infected organ and, possibly, reducing systemic drug toxicity. This work aimed at using fucoidan as matrix of inhalable microparticles that associate two first-line antituber...

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Main Author: Cunha, Ludmylla (author)
Other Authors: Rosa Da Costa, Ana (author), Lourenço, João P. (author), Buttini, Francesca (author), Grenha, Ana (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/12292
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:sapientia.ualg.pt:10400.1/12292