Year: 2024 | Month: April-June | Volume: 9 | Issue: 2 | Pages: 439-450
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijshr.20240257
Application of Liposome: A Lipid Nanoparticle in Medicine and Drug Delivery
Dr Kalpana Kumari
Associate Professor, Department of Botany, Kalindi College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
ABSTRACT
Liposomes are well recognized small lipid particles which enhance the therapeutic activity of several drugs and plays important role as drug carriers. Liposomes can be used for a large number of applications and are especially effective in curing diseases which affect the phagocytes of the immune system because they accumulate in the phagocytes, which recognize them as foreign invaders.
For a drug to produce a specific pharmacological response, it must gain access to its specific "site of action". The last decade has seen the emergence of many approaches to the problem of controlled drug delivery, such as polymeric sustained release systems, liposomal drug carriers and antibody drug carriers. Drug targeting is one such pharmaceutical technology that makes a molecule a wonder drug. Drug targeting in simple words means reaching the drug to the site of its action and thus achieving the desired response without interactions at other sites.
Keywords: Liposome, Unilamellar and Multilamellar Vesicle; Amphipathic compounds, Phospholipid vesicles, Drug delivery