🌿 In recent years, bile acids and their derivatives have received considerable interest in drug delivery research due to their versatile role in pharmaceutical formulations.
The main advantage of bile acids is their ability to act as both drug-solubilizing and permeation-modifying agents. Besides being used as functional excipients, they are also used as drug carriers that can be optimized for drug targeting and/or controlled and sustained drug delivery.
The availability and low cost of bile acids along with their unique advantages turn them into attractive scaffolds for the design of novel drugs and drug carrier systems.
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