Nanostructured Lipid Carriers for Delivery of Chemotherapeutics : A Review

The efficacy of current standard chemotherapy is suboptimal due to the poor solubility and short half-lives of chemotherapeutic agents, as well as their high toxicity and lack of specificity which may result in severe side effects, noncompliance and patient inconvenience. The application of nanotechnology has revolutionized the pharmaceutical industry and attracted increasing attention as a significant means for optimizing the delivery of chemotherapeutic agents and enhancing their efficiency and safety profiles. Nanostructured lipid carriers (NLCs) are lipid-based formulations that have been broadly studied as drug delivery systems. They have a solid matrix at room temperature and are considered superior to many other traditional lipid-based nanocarriers such as nanoemulsions, liposomes and solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs) due to their enhanced physical stability, improved drug loading capacity, and biocompatibility. This review focuses on the latest advances in the use of NLCs as drug delivery systems and their preparation and characterization techniques with special emphasis on their applications as delivery systems for chemotherapeutic agents and different strategies for their use in tumor targeting.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

Enthalten in:

Pharmaceutics - 12(2020), 3 vom: 23. März

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Haider, Mohamed [VerfasserIn]
Abdin, Shifaa M [VerfasserIn]
Kamal, Leena [VerfasserIn]
Orive, Gorka [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Chemotherapeutic agents
Drug delivery systems
Drug targeting
Journal Article
Lipid-based nanoparticles
Nanostructured lipid carriers
Review

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Date Revised 28.09.2020

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/pharmaceutics12030288

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM307960781