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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.
Scientists have used drug delivery as a way to modify the pharmacokinetics and targeted action of a drug by combining it with various excipients, drug carriers, and medical devices. [2] These drug delivery systems have been created to react to the pH environment of diseased or cancerous tissues, triggering structural and chemical changes within ...
Targeted drug delivery is the delivery of a drug to its target site without having an effect on other tissues. [22] Interest in targeted drug delivery has grown drastically due to its potential implications in the treatment of cancers and other chronic diseases.
Conventional drug delivery is limited by the inability to control dosing, target specific sites, and achieve targeted permeability. Traditional methods of delivering therapeutics to the body experience challenges in achieving and maintaining maximum therapeutic effect while avoiding the effects of drug toxicity.
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.
Immunoliposome therapy is a targeted drug delivery method that involves the use of liposomes (artificial lipid bilayer vesicles) coupled with monoclonal antibodies to deliver therapeutic agents to specific sites or tissues in the body. [1]
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