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Voyage of theranostic liposomes for imaging and therapy

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Pages 245-249 | Received 10 Jul 2016, Accepted 03 Jan 2017, Published online: 01 Mar 2017
 

ABSTRACT

Drug delivery is a critical issue in any disease treatment. Nowadays much more effort is being focused on integrating imaging agent and therapeutic drugs in a single formulation to achieve a simultaneous disease diagnosis and targeted drug delivery. This new terminology ‘nanotheranostics’ have been used to describe these nanoparticle formulations. In the ancient years, various nanocarriers (liposomes, nanoparticles, dendrimers, micelles, antibodies, etc.) have been studied for targeted delivery of chemical or biological molecules. In these nanocarriers, liposome is largely studied nanoscale delivery systems and offers more advantages than others due to their unique structural properties. This review will highlight theranostic concept as well as some examples of theranostic liposomal formulations in clinical or preclinical stages. We briefly reviewed approaches to formulate theranostic liposomal formulations.

Financial and competing interest disclosure

Authors have no relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript.

No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to express their thanks to Director, School of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutics, Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Nanded (MS) India, for providing support and facility.

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