Author/Authors :
Nemudraya, A.A. Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine - Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, russia , Richter, V.A. Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine - Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, russia , Kuligina, E.V. Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine - Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, russia
Abstract :
One of the dominant trends in modern pharmacology is the creation of drugs that act directly on the lesion focus and have minimal toxicity on healthy tissues and organs. This problem is particularly acute in rela-tion to oncologic diseases. Short tissue- and organ-specific peptides capable of delivering drugs to the affected organ or tissue are considered promising targeted agents that can be used in the diagnosis and therapy of dis-eases, including cancer. The review discusses in detail the technology of phage display as a method for obtaining specific targeted peptide agents and offers examples of their use in diagnostic and clinical practice.
Keywords :
targeted peptides , drug delivery , phage display , phage peptide libraries
