Nanocapsule Technology: a Review

Overview

Journal Crit Rev Ther Drug Carrier Syst

Publisher Begell House

Specialty Pharmacology

Date 2002 Aug 29

PMID 12197610

Citations 66

Authors

Patrick Couvreur

Gillian Barratt

Elias Fattal

Philippe Legrand

Christine Vauthier

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Abstract

Nanocapsules are submicroscopic colloidal drug carrier systems composed of an oily or an aqueous core surrounded by a thin polymer membrane. Two technologies can be used to obtain such nanocapsules: the interfacial polymerization of a monomer or the interfacial nanodeposition of a preformed polymer. This article is an extended review of these nanocapsule technologies and their applications for the treatment of various diseases (including cancer and infections).

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