Drug delivery is an area that is already showing significant impact from nanotechnology, with some approaches using nanoparticles or nanocapsules to deliver drugs through the skin, lungs, stomach and eyes already in clinical trials and many more in preclinical trials.
The advantages of these approaches are varied, such as increased solubility, resistance to gastric enzymes (offering oral delivery of drugs previously needing intravenous delivery), controlled release or the ability to direct the drug, through various means, to where it is needed—almost all current medications are delivered to the body as a whole, which is fine as long as they only become active in the areas you want them to, but this is not usually the case. When the treatment is designed to kill cells, as in the case of cancer, the side effects are enormous.
Monday, August 4, 2008
NANO IN DRUG DELIVERY
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small but informative article..which focus on importance of nanotechnology in healthcare sector.. Nanotechnology market products objective is to provide a clean,renewable energy from new materials in the world and also recover the health problem through the early recognition of dieseases.
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