Volume 20 No 9 (2022)
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Niosome as a promising carrier targeting Alzheimer’s disease across the Blood Brain Barrier
D. Keerthana, R.Kavitha, N.Damodharan
Abstract
Targeted delivery has gained much attention in recent years among pharmaceutical industries and
pharmacy researchers. Unlike normal drug delivery, tissue targeted drug delivery requires a special
technology and techniques to manufacture the final product. In particular, delivering a drug to brain
tissue poses various problems like penetration and availability of the drug on brain tissue is ever
challenging. The drug delivery to the CNS is always challenging among researchers worldwide. Unlike
other organ systems, the human brain architecture is so complex, and also various restrictions exist in
the brain tissue inorder to access it. The concept of niosome loaded drug delivery system has gained
much attention in recent years because of its high lipophilic nature and also it can easily attract lipophilic
drugs and attract the brain tissue. Keeping the idea of explaining niosomes as a drug carrier for delivering
drug candidates to the brain target, an attempt was made to review the niosome loaded drugs for
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) which is considered to be the most common neurological disorder. This review
emphasises the drugs used for AD with their mechanism of actions and its characteristic features to get
formulated with niosome with the formulation criteria. In addition to that, it emphasises the future
perspective of niosome loaded drug delivery for the treatment of AD
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10.14704/nq.2022.20.9.NQ44288
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