Surfactant self-assembly objects as novel drug delivery vehicles

✍ Scribed by Calum J Drummond; Celesta Fong

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 838 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1359-0294
• DOI: 10.1016/s1359-0294(00)00020-0

✦ Synopsis

The past decade has been witness to a new impetus in surfactant self-assembly objects as agents for drug delivery that are an alternative to micellar, lamellar (liposome, niosome and transfersome) or microemulsion-based vehicles. The review focus herein is on the application of hexagonal, cubic, 'intermediate' (viz. rhombohedral, tetragonal and monoclinic) and L, ('sponge') mesophases.