BIOL130 Lecture Notes - Liposome, Doxorubicin, Lipid Bilayer
27 Nov 2013
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Cell bio bites topic: biological membranes liposomes for drug delivery. The advances made in cancer research using liposomes. Many of the drugs that are taken have unwanted side effects in the human body. Liposomes are global structures found in the lipid bilayer that are sought to heighten the therapeutic effects of drugs (allen, 1996). Research started in the 1900s with many experiments conducted on how liposomes could offer their maximum potential and efficiency (allen, 1996). This essay explores the idea that liposomes have advanced in curing cancer with site-specific targeting, reducing the size of liposomes, and optimizing the liposome surface. Site-specific targeting has greatly improved the chances of the anticancer drug reaching the wanted area, especially in cancer research. The therapeutic effects are much higher in passive and active targeting (sharma & sharma, 1997). Passive targeting is used on cells that will automatically phagocytize liposomes.
