Drug delivery systems

Abstract

Drug delivery systems (DDS) have been developed as a new means of releasing drugs with accurate dosage and convenient administration.It will be promising in clinical application with high effectiveness and safety of drugs, and high compliance of patients.In this review, the status quo and progress of main non-injection routes (oral,trans-dermal and mucosal DDS) are summarized.The application of novel technologies such as targeting, cell micro-encapsulation and micro-fabrication in DDS is introduced.Finally, the problems and some strategy to resolve such problems are addressed.