Native gastrointestinal mucus: Critical features and techniques for studying interactions with drugs, drug carriers, and bacteria.
Adv Drug Deliv Rev
; 200: 114966, 2023 09.
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ABSTRACT
Gastrointestinal mucus plays essential roles in modulating interactions between intestinal lumen contents, including orally delivered drug carriers and the gut microbiome, and underlying epithelial and immune tissues and cells. This review is focused on the properties of and methods for studying native gastrointestinal mucus and its interactions with intestinal lumen contents, including drug delivery systems, drugs, and bacteria. The properties of gastrointestinal mucus important to consider in its analysis are first presented, followed by a discussion of different experimental setups used to study gastrointestinal mucus. Applications of native intestinal mucus are then described, including experimental methods used to study mucus as a barrier to drug delivery and interactions with intestinal lumen contents that impact barrier properties. Given the significance of the microbiota in health and disease, its impact on drug delivery and drug metabolism, and the use of probiotics and microbe-based delivery systems, analysis of interactions of bacteria with native intestinal mucus is then reviewed. Specifically, bacteria adhesion to, motility within, and degradation of mucus is discussed. Literature noted is focused largely on applications of native intestinal mucus models as opposed to isolated mucins or reconstituted mucin gels.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Adhesión Bacteriana
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Portadores de Fármacos
Límite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Adv Drug Deliv Rev
Asunto de la revista:
FARMACOLOGIA
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TERAPIA POR MEDICAMENTOS
Año:
2023
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos