"Drug Carriers" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Forms to which substances are incorporated to improve the delivery and the effectiveness of drugs. Drug carriers are used in drug-delivery systems such as the controlled-release technology to prolong in vivo drug actions, decrease drug metabolism, and reduce drug toxicity. Carriers are also used in designs to increase the effectiveness of drug delivery to the target sites of pharmacological actions. Liposomes, albumin microspheres, soluble synthetic polymers, DNA complexes, protein-drug conjugates, and carrier erythrocytes among others have been employed as biodegradable drug carriers.
| Descriptor ID |
D004337
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
D26.255.260 D27.720.280.260 E02.319.300.380
|
| Concept/Terms |
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Drug Carriers".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Drug Carriers".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Drug Carriers" by people in this website by year, and whether "Drug Carriers" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Drug Carriers" by people in Profiles.