A comprehensive review on lipid nanocarrier systems for cancer treatment : fabrication, future prospects and clinical trials

Over the last few decades, cancer has been considered a clinical challenge, being among the leading causes of mortality all over the world. Although many treatment approaches have been developed for cancer, chemotherapy is still the most utilized in the clinical setting. However, the available chemotherapeutics-based treatments have several caveats including their lack of specificity, adverse effects as well as cancer relapse and metastasis which mainly explains the low survival rate of patients. Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) have been utilized as promising nanocarrier systems for chemotherapeutics to overcome the challenges of the currently applied therapeutic strategies for cancer treatment. Loading chemotherapeutic agent(s) into LNPs improves drug delivery at different aspects including specific targeting of tumours, and enhancing the bioavailability of drugs at the tumour site through selective release of their payload, thus reducing their undesired side effects on healthy cells. This review article delineates an overview of the clinical challenges in many cancer treatments as well as depicts the role of LNPs in achieving optimal therapeutic outcomes. Moreover, the review contains a comprehensive description of the many LNPs categories used as nanocarriers in cancer treatment to date, as well as the potential of LNPs for future applications in other areas of medicine and research.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:34

Enthalten in:

Journal of liposome research - 34(2024), 1 vom: 02. März, Seite 135-177

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kabil, Mohamed Fawzi [VerfasserIn]
Badary, Osama A [VerfasserIn]
Bier, Frank [VerfasserIn]
Mousa, Shaker A [VerfasserIn]
El-Sherbiny, Ibrahim M [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cancer
Clinical trials
Cubosomes
Drug Carriers
Emulsomes
Journal Article
Lipid nanocapsules
Lipid nanoparticles
Lipid nanovesicles
Lipids
Liposomes
Nanoemulsions
Nanostructured lipid carriers
Review
Solid lipid nanoparticles

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Date Completed 01.03.2024

Date Revised 01.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/08982104.2023.2204372

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM356475735