Parteek Prasher, Mousmee Sharma, Sachin Kumar Singh, Monica Gulati, Niraj Kumar Jha, Piyush Kumar Gupta, Gaurav Gupta, Dinesh Kumar Chellappan, Flavia Zacconi, Terezinha de Jesus Andreoli Pinto, Yinghan Chan, Gang Liu, Keshav Paudel, Philip M Hansbro, Brian Gregory George Oliver, Kamal Dua
Mucus gel constitutes of heavily cross-linked mucin fibers forming a viscoelastic, dense porous network that coats all the exposed epithelia not covered with the skin. The layer provides protection to the underlying gastrointestinal, respiratory, and female reproductive tracts, in addition to the organs such as the surface of eye by trapping the pathogens, irritants, environmental fine particles, and potentially hazardous foreign matter. However, this property of mucus gel poses a substantial challenge for realizing the localized and sustained drug delivery across the mucosal surfaces...
August 3, 2022: Chemico-biological Interactions