Title: Photo-Sensitive Liposomes: Chemistry and Application in Drug Delivery
VOLUME: 10 ISSUE: 2
Author(s):Jin-Ye Wang, Qing-Fen Wu, Jian-Ping Li, Qiu-Shi Ren, Yu-Lu Wang and Xin-Ming Liu
Affiliation:Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China.
Keywords:Liposomes, photo-sensitive, pulsatile, azobenzene, cholesterol
Abstract: Photo-sensitive liposomes have been studied for a few decades and various photo-sensitive triggers have been developed so far. This review offers an overview of the different photo-triggering mechanisms for controlled pulsatile content release from liposomes, which have the potential of finding clinical applications as intelligent drug delivery systems.
