Abstract
Delivery of anti-cancer agents is challenging due to some inherent problems associated with them like instability, low solubility, non-specificity, variable pharmacokinetics, narrow therapeutic window, multi-drug resistance development, and other physiological barrier related to tumor cells. In recent years, Nanostructured lipid carrier (NLC) has gained considerable importance in improving anti-cancer agents' therapeutic efficacy.
The present review furnishes a comprehensive account of various barriers encountered in delivering the anti-cancer agent, the suitability of NLC to deliver anti-cancer agent, the techniques employed for the fabrication of NLC, its structure, along with its characterization. The main emphasis has given a break worth to overcome barriers in delivering chemotherapeutic through NLC so far; a number of qualitative literature have been included in this review. Further, the study describes the stability issue associated with the long-term storage of NLC.
The NLCs systems offer a great potential to target various anti-cancer agents suffering from low solubility, non-specificity, and severe adverse effects. The NLC system's development can overcome barriers encountered in delivering anti-cancer agents and improve its efficacy in various melanoma types.
Keywords: Anti-cancer agent, nanostructured lipid carrier, cancer, lipid carrier, NLC, multi drug-resistant.
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