Nano-Sized Drug Delivery

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In the last few decades, pharmacists focused to develop targeted drug delivery systems. The basic aim is to deliver drug molecules directly to the target tissues which Paul Ehrlich in about a century ago mentioned and named it as magic bullets of medicine [1,2]. Generally, pharmaceutical agents tend to distribute equally throughout the body. In addition, to reach the site of action, the drug has to cross vast majority of physiological and biochemical barriers which reduce the bioavailability of drugs. more importantly, After crossing through these barriers drugs should be able to elicit pharmacological action [3,4]. However, Nowadays, rapid advances in molecular biology, chemistry, pharmacy and nanotechnology enable a number of targeted drug delivery systems which can reach the malignant tissues selectively and accurately to the affected sites of the body [2,5].