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30 March, 17:47

Suppose you were planning to use liposomes in an attempt to deliver drugs to a particular type of cell in the body, for example, a fat or muscle cell. Is there any way you might be able to construct the liposome to increase its target specificity?

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  1. 30 March, 18:14
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    You can modify the by adding specific ligands

    Explanation:

    Liposomes are vesicules that result from the self-assembly of phospholipids in an aqueous medium, they resemble cellular membranes and can have single or multiple concentric bilayers. They are really useful for drug delivery because it is a biocompatible system, it can transport hydrophilic and hydrophobic molecules and they can be modified with specific ligands in order to reach their target, these ligands can be antibodies, peptides/proteins, and carbohydrates depending on the target.

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