Albumin as a drug delivery and diagnostic tool and its market approved products

Albumin is one of the most extensively studied endogenous proteins which are used in the fabrication of drug delivery and diagnostic technologies during last 10 years. This review provides a summary of products involving the use of albumin as a drug delivery tool for getting better the pharmacokinet...

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Veröffentlicht in:Acta Poloniae pharmaceutica 2013-07, Vol.70 (4), p.597-600
Hauptverfasser: Sethi, Ayesha, Sher, Muhammad, Akram, Muhammad Rouf, Karim, Sabiha, Khiljee, Sonia, Sajjad, Ashif, Shah, Syed Nisar Hussain, Murtaza, Ghulam
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Zusammenfassung:Albumin is one of the most extensively studied endogenous proteins which are used in the fabrication of drug delivery and diagnostic technologies during last 10 years. This review provides a summary of products involving the use of albumin as a drug delivery tool for getting better the pharmacokinetics of a drug by developing the targetted drug delivery systems and diagnosing the pathologies. Using albumin, following market approved products have been developed: Levemir and Victoza (antidiabetic product), Abraxane (antimetastatic breast cancer product), and Nanocoll and Albures (for lymphoscintigraphy and diagnosis of cancer and rheumatoid arthritis).
ISSN:0001-6837