New compounds that enable easier drug delivery.

• Position: HEALTH BEAT - Cyclodextrin derivative - Brief article

New compounds that enable easier drug delivery through the skin are being researched at the University of Mississippi, Oxford. The project that Narasimha Murthy, associate professor of pharmaceutics, and Abhishek Juluri, a pharmaceutics doctoral student, are working on centers on a cyclodextrin derivative. Cyclodextrins are cyclic carbohydrates with a "bucket-like cavity" within the molecules. 'They entrap water-insoluble drug molecules in the cavity...