Abstract

A REVIEW ON TARGETED DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM

Nidhi A. Bagmar, *Pooja R. Hatwar and Dr. R. L. Bakal

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Abstract

Targeted drug delivery is an advanced drug delivery system that increases the concentration of a specific drug only to the desired body part (organ/tissue/cell), improving the therapeutic effect by reducing side effects. Targeted drug delivery systems offer several advantages over conventional systems, including increased pharmacological activity, reduced side effects, and reduced dosage. The main purpose of a targeted drug delivery system is to make therapeutic drugs only have pharmacological effects on diseased organs without affecting health, especially in the cancer treatment of chemotherapeutic drugs. Various types of carriers can be used for drug targeting, such as B. Nanotubes and nanowires, nanoshells, quantum dots, nanopores, gold nanoparticles, dendrimers, noise bodies, ufasomes, virosomes, cubes, nanorobots and transfer bodies. There are different drug targeting mechanisms such as passive targeting, reverse targeting, active targeting, ligand-mediated targeting, physical targeting, dual targeting, and dual targeting. Drug targeting is a useful delivery system for delivering therapeutic agents to specific sites without causing toxicity to other organs.

Keywords: Targeted Drug Delivery System, Strategies, Carriers, liposome, Gold Nanoparticles.