Questão 23 - CESMAC Medicina 1° Dia 2020/2

Read the text below and answer the following question based on it.

 

Nanotechnology and Nanoparticles in Drug Delivery

 

If your drug use consists of an occasional aspirin, you may not see the need for serious work on drug delivery. But if you were diabetic, having to inject insulin several times a day, or a cancer patient experiencing debilitating side effects from your treatment, the benefits of improved drug delivery could change your life.

 

Perhaps the most publicized use of nanotechnology in drug delivery under development is the use of nanoparticles to deliver drugs to cancer cells. Particles are engineered so that they are attracted to diseased cells, which allows direct treatment of those cells. This technique reduces damage to healthy cells in the body.

 

However, that’s just the tip of the drug delivery iceberg: there are a number of other ways that nanotechnology can make the delivery of drugs more efficient and potentially less unpleasant for the patient. Some techniques are only imagined, while others are at various stages of testing, or actually being used today. The following survey of nanomedicine applications in drug delivery introduces many of these techniques.

Disponível em: https://www.understandingnano.com/nanotechnologydrug-delivery.html Acessado em 29 de fevereiro de 2020.

Drug delivery improvement