Cyclodextrins: Only Pharmaceutical Excipients or Full-Fledged Drug Candidates?

• Main Authors: Tamas Kovacs (Author), Peter Nagy (Author), Gyorgy Panyi (Author), Lajos Szente (Author), Zoltan Varga (Author), Florina Zakany (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2022-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Cyclodextrins, representing a versatile family of cyclic oligosaccharides, have extensive pharmaceutical applications due to their unique truncated cone-shaped structure with a hydrophilic outer surface and a hydrophobic cavity, which enables them to form non-covalent host-guest inclusion complexes...