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Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis ›› 2020, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (4): 398-403.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-6621.2020.04.018

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Advances in the application of anti-tuberculosis nanoscale drug delivery system targeting macrophages

XIANG Hai-bin,LIANG Qiu-zhen,LI Xin-xia,SONG Xing-hua()   

  1. *Department of Orthopedics, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi 830054, China
  • Received:2019-12-10 Online:2020-04-10 Published:2020-04-07
  • Contact: Xing-hua SONG E-mail:songxinghua19@163.com

Abstract:

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) is a facultative intracellular parasite of macrophages, traditional anti-TB therapy have limitations such as long course of treatment, low bio-availability, high systemic toxicity and even may induce drug resistance. As a new method of anti-tuberculous drug administration, the nanoscale drug delivery system can deliver low-cost drugs into macrophages actively or passively to inhibit the replicate or latent MTB. This review explores the active and passive targeting mechanism of anti-tuberculosis nanoscale drug delivery system to macrophages, and advanced materials for assembling nanoscale delivery system. In addition, factors affecting targeted delivery efficiency and challenges are summarized.

Key words: Tuberculosis, Macrophages, Drug carriers, Molecular targeted therapy, Review literature as topic, Nanoscale drug delivery system