Review · Volume 15, Issue 2 · pp. 233–238

Nanotechnology Approaches for Colon Targeted Drug Delivery System: A Review

Debgopal Ganguly¹, Ananta Choudhury¹, Subhabrota Majumdar²

¹Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science, Assam Down Town University, Sankar Madhab Path, Gandhi Nagar, Panikhaiti, Guwahati, Assam, INDIA.
²Department of Pharmaceutics, Calcutta Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology and Allied Health Science, Uluberia, Howrah, INDIA.

Abstract

Compared to non-targeted medications, targeting drugs to specific sites of action has various advantages. Colon-designated drug conveyance improves the adequacy of therapeutics and empowers confined treatment. Because of this, it is a functioning space of examination for neighborhood sicknesses influencing the colon. The advances for planning oral medication conveyance have altogether expanded the bioavailability of medications to the colon and likewise worked on the remedial viability during infection. Presently a day's nanotechnology assumes a significant part in oral dose plans as methodologies to additional upgrade take up into ailing tissue inside the colon. This exploration work manages the life systems and physiology of the colon, different methodologies for the colon focusing on, and assessment of medication discharge in the colon to give refreshed data for the need and improvement of medication stacked nanoparticles for various sorts of colonic infection.

Keywords: Colon targeting; Nanoparticle; Bioavailability Therapeutics; Nanotechnology

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