Discovering novel carriers for oral insulin tablets: a pharmacoinformatics approach. (1st January 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Seenivasagam, R.; Hemavathi, K.; Sivakumar, G.; Niranjan, Vidya
• Is Part Of: International journal of bioinformatics research and applications. Volume 9:Number 2(2013)
• Page Start: 184
• Page End: 206
• Publication Date: 2013-01-01
• Subjects: oral insulin -- carrier discovery -- drug delivering agent -- type 1 diabetes mellitus -- targeted drug delivery -- exogenous insulin; Bioinformatics -- Periodicals; 570.285
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1744-5485

Abstract

Insulin is used medically to treat Type 1 diabetes mellitus most commonly injected subcutaneously for human beings. The realisation that insulin injections have become a part of life can be extremely harrowing for many diabetic patients. Using insulin therapeutically is not a new practice, but still delivery methods to make the process more bearable have not gained widespread prominence as of yet. Oral delivery of insulin in tablet form has always been a significant challenge for pharmaceutical researchers. This study is a prospect of oral insulin tablet through pharmacoinformatics approach.