Skip to main content

Medical Subject Headings (thesaurus)

Search from vocabulary

align
annotate
download

Concept information

Therapeutics > Drug Therapy > Drug Delivery Systems > Drug Carriers > Liposomes
Pharmaceutical Preparations > Dosage Forms > Drug Carriers > Liposomes
Investigative Techniques > Technology, Pharmaceutical > Dosage Forms > Drug Carriers > Liposomes
... > Technology, Industry, and Agriculture > Technology > Technology, Pharmaceutical > Dosage Forms > Drug Carriers > Liposomes
Technology, Industry, and Agriculture > Manufactured Materials > Biomedical and Dental Materials > Membranes, Artificial > Liposomes
Chemical Actions and Uses > Specialty Uses of Chemicals > Biomedical and Dental Materials > Membranes, Artificial > Liposomes
Technology, Industry, and Agriculture > Manufactured Materials > Biomimetic Materials > Membranes, Artificial > Liposomes

Preferred term

Liposomes  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • Artificial, single or multilaminar vesicles (made from lecithins or other lipids) that are used for the delivery of a variety of biological molecules or molecular complexes to cells, for example, drug delivery and gene transfer. They are also used to study membranes and membrane proteins. Liposomes prepared to be much more deformable and so more capable of SKIN penetration. Non-ionic surfactant vesicles made from alkyl or dialkyl polyglycerol ethers.

Broader concept

Narrower concepts

Related concepts

Allowable Qualifier(s)

In other languages

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-M9J57MV9-X

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 1/1/99, last modified 6/17/14