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ReviewCurrent pharmaceutical design2025

Nanoparticles as Drug Delivery Carrier-synthesis, Functionalization and Application.

Drishya Sajeevan, Ramakrishna Prasad Are, Prabhudutta Hota, Anju R Babu

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Review in Current pharmaceutical design, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Drishya SajeevanDepartment of Biotechnology and Medical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Rourkela, Odisha, India.
Ramakrishna Prasad AreDepartment of Biotechnology and Medical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Rourkela, Odisha, India.ORCID 0000-0002-2627-5622
Prabhudutta HotaDepartment of Biotechnology and Medical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Rourkela, Odisha, India.
Anju R BabuDepartment of Biotechnology and Medical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Rourkela, Odisha, India.ORCID 0000-0003-2259-5896

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In recent years, advancements in chemistry have allowed the tailoring of materials at the nanoscopic level as needed. There are mainly four main types of nanomaterials used as drug carriers:metal-based nanomaterials, organic nanomaterials, inorganic nanomaterials, and polymer nanomaterials. The nanomaterials as a drug carrier showed advantages for decreased side effects with a higher therapeutic index. The stability of the drug compounds are increased by encapsulation of the drug within the nano-drug carriers, leading to decreased systemic toxicity. Nano-drug carriers are also used for controlled drug release by tailoring system-made solubility characteristics of nanoparticles by surface coating with surfactants. The review focuses on the different types of nanoparticles used as drug carriers, the nanoparticle synthesis process, techniques of nanoparticle surface coating for drug carrier purposes, applications of nano-drug carriers, and prospects of nanomaterials as drug carriers for biomedical applications.

Indexed as

Drug CarriersDrug Delivery SystemsNanoparticlesAnimalsHumansDrug CarriersEncapsulationnanomedicinenanoparticles.polymerstargeted drug deliverytherapeutic index

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PMID38685791

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