Abstract

TARGETED DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM: A PROMISING AND EMERGING PROSPECTS OF DRUG DELIVERY

Patel Mansi M.*, Dr. Chainesh Shah, Mitali Dalwadi and Dr. Umesh Upadhyay

ABSTRACT

Targeted drug delivery is an innovative method of delivering medications in such targeted sequences that increases the concentration of delivered drug only in the targeted body part of interest (organs/tissues/cells), thereby improving treatment efficacy by reducing drug administration side effects. The goal of targeted drug delivery is to help the drug molecule reach its preferred location. The inherent benefit of this procedure is that it allows for the delivery of the required medicine at a lower dose and with fewer adverse effects. This inherent benefit of targeted drug delivery systems is being studied extensively in clinical and pharmaceutical research as the backbone of treatments and diagnostics. There are a number of drug carriers like soluble polymers, biodegradable microsphere polymers (synthetic and natural), neutrophils, fibroblasts, artificial cells, lipoproteins, liposomes, micelles and immune micelle that can be used in this sophisticated delivery system. A targeted drug delivery system's purpose is to extend, localize, target, and have a therapeutic contact with sick tissue that is safe.

Keywords: Target drug delivery, targeting, nanoparticles, niosomes.