Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Targeted drug delivery. Targeted drug delivery, sometimes called smart drug delivery, [1] is a method of delivering medication to a patient in a manner that increases the concentration of the medication in some parts of the body relative to others. This means of delivery is largely founded on nanomedicine, which plans to employ nanoparticle ...
Drug-loaded polymeric micelles with various targeting functions. (A) Antibody-targeted micelles (B) ligand-targeted micelles (C) Micelles with cell-penetrating function. A nanocarrier is nanomaterial being used as a transport module for another substance, such as a drug. Commonly used nanocarriers include micelles, polymers, carbon-based ...
Chemotactic drug-targeting. Targeted drug delivery is one of many ways researchers seek to improve drug delivery systems' overall efficacy, safety, and delivery. Within this medical field is a special reversal form of drug delivery called chemotactic drug targeting. [1][2] By using chemical agents to help guide a drug carrier to a specific ...
pH-responsive tumor-targeted drug delivery is a specialized form of targeted drug delivery that utilizes nanoparticles to deliver therapeutic drugs directly to cancerous tumor tissue while minimizing its interaction with healthy tissue. [ 1] Scientists have used drug delivery as a way to modify the pharmacokinetics and targeted action of a drug ...
Within the broad field of drug delivery, the development of stimuli-responsive drug delivery systems has created the ability to tune drug delivery systems to achieve more controlled dosing and targeted specificity based on material response to exogenous and endogenous stimuli. Endogenous stimuli consist of chemical, biological, and physical ...
Theranostics, also known as theragnostics, [1] is a technique commonly used in personalised medicine. For example in nuclear medicine, one radioactive drug is used to identify (diagnose) and a second radioactive drug is used to treat (therapy) cancerous tumors. [2][3][4] In other words, theranostics combines radionuclide imaging and radiation ...
This research proposes the use of milk, as a scalable source of exosomes for a method of targeted drug delivery with higher efficacy than standard oral methods. [15] These novel therapies may provide a way to achieve a low-cost method to deliver drugs with poor water solubility into the body, with potential use as a low-cost alternative. [5]
In the field of drug discovery, retrometabolic drug design is a strategy for the design of safer drugs either using predictable metabolism to an inactive moiety or using targeted drug delivery approaches. The phrase retrometabolic drug design was coined by Nicholas Bodor. [1] The method is analogous to retrosynthetic analysis where the ...