“…In addition, there are an increasing number of studies investigating the potential of rectal drug delivery for the treatment of more chronic conditions, including diabetes (Matsumoto et al, 2017; Shi et al, 2019), infections (das Neves et al, 2013; Ham and Buckheit, 2017; Nunes et al, 2018), hypertension (Abou el Ela Ael et al, 2016), asthma (Shiohira et al, 2009), chronic anal fissure (Ivanova et al, 2019), and cancer (Lo et al, 2013; Seo et al, 2013; Ye et al, 2016; Din et al, 2017). Although encouraging results were reported in these studies, with many designed for sustained release activity, they generally did not evaluate the formulations over a long study period.…”