Challenges of New Generation Liposomes – A Review

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https://doi.org/10.37285/ijpsn.2020.13.2.3

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  • Priya Gupta
  • Rupa Mazumder
  • Swarupanjali Padhi

Abstract

This review describes the basic concepts of liposomes, their geometry, challenges of conventional liposomes and the new generation liposomes, which have been developed to overcome the problems associated with conventional liposomes. Liposomes are bilayered vesicles of phospholipids capable of enclosing both hydrophilic and lipophilic drug(s) due to its amphiphilic nature. Described by Bangham in 1961, these vesicles still are being explored by researchers. They offer many advantages from delivering the drug to the target location to being nontoxic in nature and providing treatment for cancer and tumour diseased conditions. Although conventional liposomes have been beneficial in many aspects, they possess challenges, which need to be addressed and thus, some modifications in conventional liposomes gave birth to new generation of liposomes including stealth liposomes, glycerosomes, enzymosomes, stimuli responsive lipsomes, pharmacosomes, targeted liposomes, transferosomes, ethosomes and many more. These liposomes have proved to be more versatile than the conventional liposomes and are widely used today for various disease conditions.

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Ethosomes, Enzymosomes, Glycerosomes, Liposomes, Pharmacosomes, Phospholipids, Tumour

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2020-03-31

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Gupta P, Mazumder R, Padhi S. Challenges of New Generation Liposomes – A Review. Scopus Indexed [Internet]. 2020 Mar. 31 [cited 2024 Dec. 22];13(2):4815-2. Available from: https://ijpsnonline.com/index.php/ijpsn/article/view/258

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