Nanomedicine enhances effects on injectable drugs
Mauro Ferrari, Ph.D., University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, recently presented a brand new multistage delivery system (MDS) for threapeutic applications and imaging. Injectable drugs would be way more effective by using this discovery.
„This is next generation nanomedicine“, he said. „We are now making complex nanostructures to elude the natural defences of the body, to locate tumors and such and release a load of therapeutics and/or constrasting agents.“
Drug delivery systems are predicted to be revamped by using nanomedicine. „The field of threapeutic nanoparticles begun with liposomes which are used in cancer clinics all over the world. The molecules we’re after were added to liposomes to help in directing them to „bad“ cells“, said Ferrari.
It is estimated that 1 of every 100000 molecules reaches it’s desired location. Therefore, getting drugs to their targets isn’t an easy task. The multistage approach is needed to bypass the body’s natural defences. Besides that, Ferrari’s team is also working on bio modifications to bring the MDS to cancer lesions.
Ennio Tasciotti, Ph.D., and Mauro Ferrari, Ph.D., both said that this study wouldn’t have been possible without the effort of physicists, chemists, engeneers and mathematicians. The study has been partly supported by the NCI.
