Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Research

Drug Delivery and Targeting

Targeted Drug Delivery, sometimes called smart Drug Delivery, is a method of delivering medication to a patient in a manner that increases the concentration of the medication in some parts of the body relative to others.Targeted drug delivery is a system of specifying the drug moiety directly into its targeted body area (organ, cellular, and subcellular level of specific tissue) to overcome the specific toxic effect of conventional drug delivery, thereby reducing the amount of drug required for therapeutic efficacy. Drug delivery is the method or process of administering a Pharmaceutical compound to achieve a therapeutic effect in humans or animals. For the treatment of human diseases, nasal and pulmonary routes of Drug Delivery are gaining increasing importance. The advantages to the targeted release system is the reduction in the frequency of the dosages taken by the patient, having a more uniform effect of the drug, reduction of drug side-effects, and reduced fluctuation in circulating drug levels.