A Review on Nanostructured Lipid Carriers as Promising Drug Delivery Vehicle to Target Various Cancers via Oral Route: A Step towards “Chemotherapy at Home”

Title:A Review on Nanostructured Lipid Carriers as Promising Drug Delivery Vehicle to Target Various Cancers via Oral Route: A Step towards “Chemotherapy at Home”

Volume: 14 Issue: 2

Author(s): Sheikh Shahnawaz Quadir, Garima Joshi*, Vinod Saharan, Harish Mangesh, Deepak Choudhary, Khushwant Yadav, Chandra Prakash Jain and Lalit Singh Chauhan

Affiliation:

• Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur, 313001, India

Keywords: Oral drug delivery, GALT, NDDS, lipids, NLCs, cancer, nanocarriers, nanotechnology.

Abstract: Oral drug administration is largely preferred owing to enhanced patient compliance, convenience of self-intake of dose, non-invasiveness, and low manufacturing cost. Cancer is a condition that starts with aberrant cell division at an uncontrolled rate. The clinical effectiveness of many anticancer drugs is limited by their physicochemical characteristics and physiological circumstances in the GI tract. Nanostructured lipid carriers have the potential to enhance the bio-availability of anticancer drugs by entrapping them. The NLCs, by virtue of their nanosize and their biocompatibility, can bypass the first-pass metabolism and be taken up by M cells of Peyer’s patches to deliver the drug to the deeper tumours. The proposed review highlights the potential of NLCs in oral drug delivery for the management of various cancers. It discusses various strategies, method of preparation, mechanism of uptake, and their applications in the treatment of cancer via oral delivery. Further, it explains the recent advances and future perspectives.

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Quadir Sheikh Shahnawaz, Joshi Garima*, Saharan Vinod, Mangesh Harish, Choudhary Deepak, Yadav Khushwant, Jain Prakash Chandra and Chauhan Lalit Singh, A Review on Nanostructured Lipid Carriers as Promising Drug Delivery Vehicle to Target Various Cancers via Oral Route: A Step towards “Chemotherapy at Home”, Current Nanomedicine 2024; 14 (2) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/0124681873272867231113192452