Yuan Jiang, Yi Yuan, Feng Peng, Yi Deng, Chao Ren, Chongzhi Liu, Hai Dong, Tao Tu
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Abstract
Erythrocytes are responsible for delivering oxygen throughout the body. They have become suitable drug carriers due to outstanding advantages, such as a long lifespan in circulation, high biosafety, and low immunogenicity. Although erythrocyte-based drug delivery has good application prospects and has become a research hotspot in related fields, the application of erythrocyte-based drug delivery systems is rare in the clinic now. In this review, we discuss the characteristics of erythrocytes, diverse drug-loading approaches, and research progress of erythrocyte-based drug delivery systems. Finally, we explore the challenges of erythrocyte-based drug delivery in clinical application.
期刊介绍:
Current Drug Delivery aims to publish peer-reviewed articles, research articles, short and in-depth reviews, and drug clinical trials studies in the rapidly developing field of drug delivery. Modern drug research aims to build delivery properties of a drug at the design phase, however in many cases this idea cannot be met and the development of delivery systems becomes as important as the development of the drugs themselves.
The journal aims to cover the latest outstanding developments in drug and vaccine delivery employing physical, physico-chemical and chemical methods. The drugs include a wide range of bioactive compounds from simple pharmaceuticals to peptides, proteins, nucleotides, nucleosides and sugars. The journal will also report progress in the fields of transport routes and mechanisms including efflux proteins and multi-drug resistance.
The journal is essential for all pharmaceutical scientists involved in drug design, development and delivery.