Jornal de Bioequivalência e Biodisponibilidade

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Cutting Edge Approach on Prodrug: Contrivance for Target Drug Delivery

Y M Varsha, G Ram Mohan Rao and V Venkateswara Rao

Drug administration procedures are very much vital and are considered to be the prime-most criteria during the drug design and its appliance. Scrutinizing this, drugs are designed in such a way, bringing some change in their persona like bioavailability and bioequivalence. One such approach called prodrug, first started in 1950’s is still a fertile area of research because of it’s insist persona. Prodrugs are the shrouded drugs which are one or two chemical or enzymatic steps away from the active parent drug. Present review delineates about the prodrug action, types of prodrugs, new prodrug therapies, nanotech allied prodrugs.