Drug delivery systems: past, present, and future

Curr Drug Targets. 2004 Jul;5(5):449-55. doi: 10.2174/1389450043345407.

Abstract

Drug delivery systems are essential components of drugs controlled release. In the last decades, several drug delivery technologies have emerged including capsules, liposomes, microparticles, nanoparticles, and polymers. These components must be biocompatible, biodegradable, and display a desired biodistribution providing a long-term availability of the therapeutic at specific target over time.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Biocompatible Materials / chemistry
  • Capsules
  • Drug Delivery Systems / methods*
  • Drug Delivery Systems / trends*
  • Drug Design*
  • Liposomes
  • Microspheres
  • Nanotechnology
  • Polymers / chemistry
  • Virosomes

Substances

  • Biocompatible Materials
  • Capsules
  • Liposomes
  • Polymers
  • Virosomes