title: Lipid nanoparticles for parenteral delivery of actives.
abstract: The present review compiles the applications of lipid nanoparticles mainly solid lipid nanoparticles (SLN), nanostructured lipid carriers (NLC) and lipid drug conjugates (LDC) in parenteral delivery of pharmaceutical actives. The attempts to incorporate anticancer agents, imaging agents, antiparasitics, antiarthritics, genes for transfection, agents for liver, cardiovascular and central nervous system targeting have been summarized. The utility of lipid nanoparticles as adjuvant has been discussed separately. A special focus of this review is on toxicity caused by these kinds of lipid nanoparticles with a glance on the fate of lipid nanoparticles after their parenteral delivery in vivo viz the protein adsorption patterns.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Biopharmaceutics and NutriCosmetics, Freie Universitäte Berlin, Berlin, Germany. medhajosh@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Medha D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Joshi
authors.forename: Rainer H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Müller
mesh_terms: D000327:Adsorption; D000818:Animals; D004337:Drug Carriers / Q000737:chemistry*; D016503:Drug Delivery Systems; D064420:Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions; D006801:Humans; D008055:Lipids / Q000737:chemistry*; D053758:Nanoparticles; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000008:administration & dosage; D011506:Proteins / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D004337:Drug Carriers; D008055:Lipids; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations; D011506:Proteins