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Table 4

Main characteristics of therapeutic nanoparticles.

Examples Tolerance Stability Cost FDA-approved use
Lipid-based Liposomes +++ +/− +/++ Drug vectorization
Nanocapsules
Solid nanocarriers
Emulsions
Macromolecular Polymeric micelles ++ ++ +/++ Drug vectorization
Polymersomes
Nanospheres
Dendrimeres
Inorganic Gold +/− +++ +++ Drug vectorization
Iron Iron supplementation
Silica Imaging

Note: Inspired from [12, 80, 83]. Semi-quantitative evaluation: − poor, + low, ++ medium, +++ high.

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