Liposomes for Drug Delivery: Recent Advances and Discoveries
A special issue of Biomolecules (ISSN 2218-273X). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomacromolecules: Lipids".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 11892
Special Issue Editors
Interests: drug delivery; liposomes; mitochondriotropic liposomes; bacteria biofilms; natural bioactive compounds; colloid chemistry
Interests: drug delivery; liposomes; bioactive compounds; Blood Brain Barrier; colloid chemistry
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Liposomes and liposome-based drug delivery systems have proved to be the most successful family in the field of nanomedicine thanks to their safety, biocompatibility, and biodegradability. Their unique structural features can be modulated as a function of the physicochemical properties of the drug, of the biological target and of the therapeutic protocol, improving in this way their efficacy and targeting ability. Evidence of this success can be found in all the liposomal anticancer, antifungal, and analgesic drugs, together with liposome-based vaccines, approved in the last 25 years, and the very recent success of mRNA vaccines against SARS-CoV-2.
This Special Issue will focus on recent developments in all fields concerning the use of liposomes as drug delivery systems (targeting, diagnostics, imaging and theranostics). Special attention will be given to liposomes and multifunctional liposome-based systems for the targeted delivery to the central nervous system, subcellular organelles, tumors, bacteria biofilms, as well as to the delivery of genetic materials, peptides, and natural bioactive compounds.
Dr. Cecilia Bombelli
Dr. Francesca Ceccacci
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- liposomes
- liposome-based systems
- targeted delivery
- subcellular targeting