Review Article
Targeted Liposomal Drug Delivery to Monocytes and Macrophages
Table 1
Examples of therapeutic applications using monocyte/macrophage-targeted liposomes.
| Ligand | Active | Disease | Reference |
| Anionic lipids | | | | | Dexamethasone | Atherosclerosis | [22] | | SLPI | Inflammatory lung disease | [23] | | Bisphosphonates | Restnosis | [24] | | Rifampicin | Tuberculosis | [25] | | Dideoxycytidine--triphosphate | HIV | [26] | | Clarithromycin | Mycobacterium avium infection | [27] |
| Peptides | | | | Muramyl tripeptide (MTP) | MTP-phosphotidylethanolamine | Osteosarcoma | [28] | Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD) | Diclofenac sodium (model drug) | Cerebrovascular disease | [29] |
| Antibodies | | | | Anti-VCAM-1 | Prostaglandins | Atherosclerosis | [30] | Anti-CC52 | — | Colon Cancer | [31] | Anti-CC531 | — | Colon Adenocarcinoma | [32] | Anti-CD11c/DEC-205 | tumour antigen (OVA) | Cancer | [21] |
| Lectins | | | | Mann-C4-Chol | Dexamethasone palmitate | Inflammatory lung disease | [33] | Man2DOG | — | — | [34] | Aminophenyl--D-mannopyranoside | Doxorubicin | Experimental visceral leishmaniasis | [6] | | Ciprofloxacin | Respiratory infection | [5] | Man3-DPPE | OVA | | [35] | | — | Gastric cancer | [36] |
| Other Ligands | | | | Maleylated bovine serum albumin (MBSA) | | | [25] | O-steroly amylopectin (O-SAP) | | | [25] | Fibronectin | | | [37] | Galactosyl | | | [37] |
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