Carbon Nanotubes an Excellent Targeted Drug Delivery System

Radhika Mendhe; Aditya Dalal

doi:10.52711/2321-5836.2024.00036

Research Journal of Pharmacology and Pharmacodynamics

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Carbon Nanotubes an Excellent Targeted Drug Delivery System

Author(s): Radhika Mendhe, Aditya Dalal

Email(s): radhikamendhe1506@gmail.com

DOI: 10.52711/2321-5836.2024.00036

Address: Radhika Mendhe*, Aditya Dalal
Department of Pharmaceutics, Dr. Rajendra Gode Institute of Pharmacy, Amravati – 444602.
*Corresponding Author

Published In: Volume - 16, Issue - 3, Year - 2024

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ABSTRACT:
Carbon nanotubes, or CNTs, are carbon allotropes with a nanostructure that can have a length-to-breadth proportion more prominent than 1,000,000. These round and hollow carbon particles have exceptional properties that make them possibly helpful in an assortment of nanotechnology applications. CNTs might be joined with a scope of natural components, including proteins, drugs, and nucleic acids, to give bio-functionalities. CNTs come in two assortments: multi-walled (MWNTs) and single-walled (SWNTs). Among its captivating properties are its high viewpoint proportion, strength, lightweight weight, high warm conductivity, and electrical attributes that reach from metallic to semiconducting. Carbon nanotubes might be made by various cycles, including warm blend, substance fume statement, laser removal, circular segment release dissipation, plasma-based union, and synthetic fume affidavit increased by plasma. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) track down use in drug conveyance, blood malignant growth, bosom disease, cerebrum malignant growth, liver malignant growth, cervical malignant growth, quality treatment, resistant therapy, biomedical imaging, biosensors, and tissue designing. The noncovalent functionalization of specific MNTs with folic corrosive (FA) worked on the vehicle of medication to malignant growth cells in the lymph hubs. By utilizing a remotely introduced magnet to guide the medication lattice to the provincial designated lymph hubs, the MNTs can ceaselessly deliver chemotherapeutic medications for a few days while remaining in the depleting designated lymph hubs. Growth cells communicating folate receptors (FRs) in the lymph hubs can be explicitly obliterated since FRs are overexpressed in different human malignancies.

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Radhika Mendhe, Aditya Dalal. Carbon Nanotubes an Excellent Targeted Drug Delivery System. Research Journal of Pharmacology and Pharmacodynamics.2024;16(3):213-0. doi: 10.52711/2321-5836.2024.00036

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