eprintid: 3828
rev_number: 9
eprint_status: archive
userid: 73
dir: disk0/00/00/38/28
datestamp: 2017-11-15 11:21:01
lastmod: 2017-11-29 08:50:22
status_changed: 2017-11-15 11:21:01
type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Gagliardi, Mariacristina
creators_id: mariacristina.gagliardi@imtlucca.it
title: Biomimetic and bioinspired nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery
ispublished: pub
subjects: QD
subjects: R1
divisions: CSA
full_text_status: restricted
keywords: Bioinspiration; Biomimicry; Drug targeting
abstract: In drug targeting, the urgent need for more effective and less iatrogenic therapies is pushing toward a complete revision of carrier setup. After the era of ‘articles used as homing systems’, novel prototypes are now emerging. Newly conceived carriers are endowed with better biocompatibility, biodistribution and targeting properties. The biomimetic approach bestows such improved functional properties. Exploiting biological molecules, organisms and cells, or taking inspiration from them, drug vector performances are now rapidly progressing toward the perfect carrier. Following this direction, researchers have refined carrier properties, achieving significant results. The present review summarizes recent advances in biomimetic and bioinspired drug vectors, derived from biologicals or obtained by processing synthetic materials with a biomimetic approach
date: 2017
date_type: published
publication: Therapeutic Delivery
volume: 8
number: 5
publisher: Future Science
pagerange: 289-299
id_number: doi: 10.4155/tde-2017-0013
refereed: TRUE
issn: 2041-5990
official_url: https://doi.org/10.4155/tde-2017-0013
citation:   Gagliardi, Mariacristina  Biomimetic and bioinspired nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery.  Therapeutic Delivery, 8 (5).  pp. 289-299.  ISSN 2041-5990      (2017)  
document_url: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/3828/1/Therapeutic%20Delivery%20%25282017%2529.pdf