Achievements and challenges of targeted drug delivery to a human respiratory tract: Bridging traditional and novel approaches to modelling and clinical needs
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Achievements and challenges of targeted drug delivery to a human respiratory tract are summarised. These include an analysis of the means of targeted drug delivery, which were used in the past, are currently available, and are expected to be used in the future. Particular attention is paid to the prioritisation of drugs and means of their targeted delivery. This analysis is followed by a description of pharmacological, experimental and theoretical advances in targeted drug delivery to a human respiratory tract. A description of the theoretical advances focuses on the theoretical tools currently available and used for the analysis of drug delivery processes, and those which were developed for different applications, mainly in engineering, but could potentially be applicable to the analysis of drug delivery processes in human airways. The latter include the full Lagrangian approach, and recently developed models of mono- and multi-component, and spherical and non-spherical droplet/aerosol heating and evaporation. Particular attention is given to molecular dynamics approaches to modelling aerosols, including their dynamics, heating and evaporation.
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