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ReviewPharmaceutics2020

Nanostructured Lipid Carriers for Delivery of Chemotherapeutics: A Review.

Mohamed Haider, Shifaa M Abdin, Leena Kamal, Gorka Orive

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Review in Pharmaceutics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 169 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

169 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Mohamed HaiderDepartment of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology, College of Pharmacy, University of Sharjah, Sharjah 27272, UAE.ORCID 0000-0003-3150-9275
Shifaa M AbdinResearch Institute of Medical & Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah 27272, UAE.
Leena KamalDepartment of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology, College of Pharmacy, University of Sharjah, Sharjah 27272, UAE.
Gorka OriveNanoBioCel Group, Laboratory of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Paseo de la Universidad 7, 01006 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-0773-300X

Funding

Aljalila Foundation UAE AJF201777
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The efficacy of current standard chemotherapy is suboptimal due to the poor solubility and short half-lives of chemotherapeutic agents, as well as their high toxicity and lack of specificity which may result in severe side effects, noncompliance and patient inconvenience. The application of nanotechnology has revolutionized the pharmaceutical industry and attracted increasing attention as a significant means for optimizing the delivery of chemotherapeutic agents and enhancing their efficiency and safety profiles. Nanostructured lipid carriers (NLCs) are lipid-based formulations that have been broadly studied as drug delivery systems. They have a solid matrix at room temperature and are considered superior to many other traditional lipid-based nanocarriers such as nanoemulsions, liposomes and solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs) due to their enhanced physical stability, improved drug loading capacity, and biocompatibility. This review focuses on the latest advances in the use of NLCs as drug delivery systems and their preparation and characterization techniques with special emphasis on their applications as delivery systems for chemotherapeutic agents and different strategies for their use in tumor targeting.

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chemotherapeutic agentsdrug delivery systemsdrug targetinglipid-based nanoparticlesnanostructured lipid carriers

Identifiers

PMID32210127
PMCPMC7151211

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