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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Chapman CD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3761088 | biostudies-other | 2013 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Pharmaceutical research 20121108 10
One of the most challenging problems facing modern medicine is how to deliver a given drug to a specific target at the exclusion of other regions. For example, a variety of compounds have beneficial effects within the central nervous system (CNS), but unwanted side effects in the periphery. For such compounds, traditional oral or intravenous drug delivery fails to provide benefit without cost. However, intranasal delivery is emerging as a noninvasive option for delivering drugs to the CNS with m ...[more]