Resenha
Drug delivery systems: Past, present, and future
Date
2004-07-01Registration in:
Current Drug Targets. Hilversum: Bentham Science Publ Ltd, v. 5, n. 5, p. 449-455, 2004.
1389-4501
10.2174/1389450043345407
WOS:000221917500006
Author
Universidade de Brasília (UnB)
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
Abstract
Drug delivery systems are essential components of drugs controlled release. In the last decades, several drug delivery technologies have emerged including capsules, liposomes. microparticles, nanoparticles, and polymers. These components must be biocompatible, biodegradable, and display a desired biodistribution providing a long-term availability of the therapeutic at specific target over time.