title: Design of magnetic nanoparticles-assisted drug delivery system.
abstract: Magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) have been designed for multifaceted applications such as contrast agents in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) diagnosis, drug/gene carriers for different kinds of therapeutic agents, tissue repair, hyperthermia, immunoassay, and cell separation/sensing. This review highlights synthesis methods, stabilizers used for surface coating on MNPs, and target ligands for ferrying payloads to an interested disease area. Some of the recent biomedical applications of MNPs in the field of drug and DNA targeting delivery are extensively reviewed.
authors: Department of Medicinal & Applied Chemistry, School of Life Science, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City 80708, Taiwan.
authors: Guo-Jing
authors: GJ
authors: Chen
authors: Li-Fang
authors: LF
authors: Wang
mesh_terms: D004337:Drug Carriers / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry*; D018014:Gene Transfer Techniques; D058185:Magnetite Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry*; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000737:chemistry; D012995:Solubility; D013499:Surface Properties
chemical_list: D004337:Drug Carriers; D058185:Magnetite Nanoparticles; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations