Title:A Review on Nanostructured Lipid Carriers as Promising Drug Delivery
Vehicle to Target Various Cancers via Oral Route: A Step towards
“Chemotherapy at Home”
Volume: 14
Issue: 2
Author(s): Sheikh Shahnawaz Quadir, Garima Joshi*, Vinod Saharan, Harish Mangesh, Deepak Choudhary, Khushwant Yadav, Chandra Prakash Jain and Lalit Singh Chauhan
Affiliation:
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur, 313001, India
Keywords:
Oral drug delivery, GALT, NDDS, lipids, NLCs, cancer, nanocarriers, nanotechnology.
Abstract: Oral drug administration is largely preferred owing to enhanced patient compliance,
convenience of self-intake of dose, non-invasiveness, and low manufacturing cost. Cancer is a
condition that starts with aberrant cell division at an uncontrolled rate. The clinical effectiveness
of many anticancer drugs is limited by their physicochemical characteristics and physiological
circumstances in the GI tract. Nanostructured lipid carriers have the potential to enhance the bioavailability
of anticancer drugs by entrapping them. The NLCs, by virtue of their nanosize and
their biocompatibility, can bypass the first-pass metabolism and be taken up by M cells of Peyer’s
patches to deliver the drug to the deeper tumours. The proposed review highlights the potential of
NLCs in oral drug delivery for the management of various cancers. It discusses various strategies,
method of preparation, mechanism of uptake, and their applications in the treatment of cancer via
oral delivery. Further, it explains the recent advances and future perspectives.