Spanlastics : a novel elastic drug delivery system with potential applications via multifarious routes of administration

Drug delivery systems (DDS) based on nanocarriers are designed to transport therapeutic agents to specific areas of the body where they are required to exhibit pharmacodynamic effect. These agents rely on an appropriate carrier to protect them from rapid degradation or clearance and enhance their concentration in target tissues. Spanlastics, an elastic, deformable surfactant-based nanovesicles have the potential to be used as a drug delivery vehicle for wide array of drug molecules. Spanlastics are formed by the self-association of non-ionic surfactants and edge activators in an aqueous phase and have gained attention as promising drug carriers due to their biodegradable, biocompatible, and non-immunogenic structure. In recent years, numerous scientific journals have published research articles exploring the potential of spanlastics to serve as a DDS for various types of drugs as they offer targeted delivery and regulated release of the drugs. Following brief introduction to spanlastics, their structure and methods of preparation, this review focuses on the delivery of various drugs using spanlastics as a carrier via various routes viz. topical, transdermal, ototopical, ocular, oral and nasal. Work carried out by various researchers by employing spanlastics as a carrier for enhancing therapeutic activity of different moieties has been discussed in detail.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:31

Enthalten in:

Journal of drug targeting - 31(2023), 10 vom: 05. Dez., Seite 999-1012

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Saini, Harshita [VerfasserIn]
Rapolu, Yugendhar [VerfasserIn]
Razdan, Karan [VerfasserIn]
Nirmala [VerfasserIn]
Sinha, Vivek Ranjan [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Deformable vesicle
Drug Carriers
Drug delivery
Journal Article
Liposomes
Nano-elastic vesicular systems
Nanocarrier
Review
Spanlastics
Surface-Active Agents

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Date Completed 30.11.2023

Date Revised 15.12.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/1061186X.2023.2274805

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM364188170