A REVIEW ON NANOBUBBLES: A NOVEL DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM

The emerging branch in pharmaceutical sciences known as pharmaceutical nanotechnology presents new tools, opportunities and scope, which are expected to have significant applications, in disease diagnostics and therapeutics. There is a growing interest in Nanobubble (NB) technology because of its wide range of potential applications in theranostics and targeted drug delivery including anticancer drug delivery, gene delivery etc. Nanobubbles could offer several features in anticancer drug delivery, improving cellular uptake of chemotherapy drugs into cancer cell lines. Nanobubbles opened a new field of ultrasound imaging and were used as a diagnostic method. This review describes the introduction, classification, stability of nanobubble, method of preparation, applications and challenges and future prospects