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ReviewFrontiers in pharmacology2022

Phytochemical Delivery Through Transferosome (Phytosome): An Advanced Transdermal Drug Delivery for Complementary Medicines.

Rong-Ping Chen, Vivek P Chavda, Aayushi B Patel, Zhe-Sheng Chen

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Review in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
11.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 59 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Rong-Ping ChenDepartment of Endocrinology, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Vivek P ChavdaDepartment of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology, L M College of Pharmacy, Ahmedabad, India.
Aayushi B PatelPharmacy Section, L.M. College of Pharmacy, Ahmedabad, India.
Zhe-Sheng ChenDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, St. John's University, Queens, United States.
B.J. Medical College · INSt. John's University · USZhujiang Hospital · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transdermal drug delivery aims to create a safe and effective method of administering drugs through the skin that attracts a lot of attention and investment due to the constant progress in the field. Transferosomes are flexible or malleable vesicles (having almost the same structure as liposomes but with better skin penetration properties) discovered initially in the early 90s. The name transferosomes, which means "carrying bodies," is coined from the Latin phrase "Transferee," which means "to carry through," and the Greek term "soma," meaning "body." In comparison to typical herbal extracts, phytosomes (Transferosomes) are created by attaching specific herbal extracts to phosphatidylcholine, resulting in a formulation with increased solubility and, hence, better absorption, resulting in improved pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic features of the entrapped drugs. We are using the word phytosomes and transferosomes interchangeably as we have consolidated vesicular delivery of herbal drugs through skin. In this mini-review, we have demonstrated the enormous potential of developing nanotechnology to deliver bioactive phytochemicals, with a special emphasis on phytosomes (Transferosomes) as a unique lipid-based nanocarrier for transdermal drug delivery.

Indexed as

complementary medicine (CAM)phytochemicalsphytosometransdermal drug deliverytransferosome

Identifiers

PMID35281927
PMCPMC8904565
OpenAlexW4212835769

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