Yang C, Tirucherai GS, Mitra AK. Prodrug based optimal drug delivery via membrane transporter/receptor.
Expert Opin Biol Ther 2001;
1:159-75. [PMID:
11727527 DOI:
10.1517/14712598.1.2.159]
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Abstract
The carrier-mediated absorption of drugs and prodrugs across epithelial and endothelial barriers is emerging as a novel trend in biotherapeutics. This review examines the important advances in this field in the past decade. The feasibility of drug absorption of the parent drug or the appropriately modified prodrug via these transporters is discussed in detail. Several successful examples of synthesis of prodrugs recognised by the targeted transporters are described. The applicability of this approach in translocating drugs across the almost impenetrable blood-brain barrier (BBB) has also been examined.
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