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Manufacture and Drug Delivery Applications of Silk Nanoparticles
Published on: October 8, 2016
Application of glycosylation in targeted drug delivery
1Active Carbohydrate Research Institute, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Inorganic Functional Materials, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing, 401331, China.
Abstract:
Sugar, as a carrier of human energy and an important bioinformatics molecule, plays a vital role in many important physiological processes, and can control the transmission of bioinformatics by specific recognition with biological molecules such as proteins. Herein, the mechanism of glycosylation-targeted drug delivery was described, various glycosylation methods were summarized, and the applications of glycosylation-targeted drug delivery in liver targeting, brain targeting and lung targeting were discussed. At the same time, the problems of glycosylation targeted drug delivery were suggested, and the application prospects of glycosylation targeting drug delivery were expected.
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