Characteristics and research progress of ethosomes--a new drug delivery carrier
LIN Bi-wen
WANG Wen-juan
WANG Hong-quan
ZHOU Yong
LI Heng-jin
Abstract：As a new kind of liposome, ethosomes have some advantages, such as high encapsulation efifciency, good deform ability, low skin irritation, good transdermal permeation, massive skin retention as well as increasing the drug concentration in the skin and providing effective intracellular transmission. Ethosomes have been found to be much more efifcient in delivering drug to the skin than other drug delivery system (DDS), and have caught lots of research interest in the transdermal DDS. According to some domestic and overseas literatures, the characteristics, transdermal absorption, transdermal delivery in terms of anti-infection, hormone, arthritis and macromolecular drugs of ethosomes were reviewed. The results indicated that the ethosomes have a good application prospect and development value as drug carrier in transdermal DDS.
Keywords：EthosomesLiposomesTransdermal drug delivery
Publication Date：2014-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 121-124 )