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Nanocarriers as Drug Delivery Vectors

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This book chapter gives a concise description of various nanocarriers for drug delivery to a specific site. Liposomes, solid lipids, polymers and dendrimers are potential nanocarriers for drug delivery described here. Nanocarriers-based drugs delivery to the specific site is frequently accomplished through active or passive strategies. Liposomes are the first kind of nanocarriers. A drug is often encapsulated within the liposome and is often successively released from the drug by altering physical factors. Liposomes are also efficient to deliver genetic materials to a specific site. Solid lipid-based nanocarriers can transport equally hydrophilic and hydrophobic drugs and are more reasonable than surfactant or polymer-based nanocarriers. Functionalized amphiphilic polymers currently play a fundamental role in drug delivery skill progression by furnishing the controlled release of drugs. Dendritic molecules with a hydrophilic exterior surface and hydrophobic core demonstrate micelle-like features and act as nanocontainers for hydrophobic drugs. Progress in research based on nanocarriers for drug delivery will have a great future in medicine.

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Biswas, J., Datta, B. (2022). Nanocarriers as Drug Delivery Vectors. In: Swain, B.P. (eds) Nanostructured Biomaterials. Materials Horizons: From Nature to Nanomaterials. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8399-2_2

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