PMID- 36733193 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230721 LR - 20230721 IS - 1873-4294 (Electronic) IS - 1568-0266 (Linking) VI - 23 IP - 13 DP - 2023 TI - Metal-Organic Framework in Pharmaceutical Drug Delivery. PG - 1155-1170 LID - 10.2174/1568026623666230202122519 [doi] AB - Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are porous, crystalline materials made up of organic ligands and metal ions/metal clusters linked by coordinative bonds. This large family is becoming increasingly popular for drug delivery due to their tuneable porosity, chemical composition, size and shape, and ease of surface functionalization. There has been a growing interest over the last decades in the design of engineered MOFs with controlled sizes for a variety of biomedical applications. Starting with the MOFs classification adapted for drug delivery systems (DDSs) based on the types of constituting metals and ligands. MOFs are appealing drug delivery vehicles because of their substantial drug absorption capacity and slow-release processes, which protect and convey sensitive drug molecules to target areas. Other guest materials have been incorporated into MOFs to create MOF-composite materials, which have added additional functionalities such as externally triggered drug release, improved pharmacokinetics, and diagnostic aids. Magnetic nanoparticles in MOFs for MRI image contrast and polymer coatings that increase blood circulation time are examples of synthetically adaptable MOF-composites. By including photosensitizers, which exert lethal effects on cancer cells by converting tumour oxygen into reactive singlet oxygen ((1)O(2)), metalorganic frameworks have been employed for photodynamic treatment (PDT) of malignancies among a multitude of nanosized therapies. Importantly, a variety of representative MOF applications are described from the perspectives of pharmaceutics, disease therapy, and advanced drug delivery systems. However, because of their weak conductivity, selectivity, and lack of modification sites, MOF materials' uses in electrochemical biosensing are restricted. MOF-based composites provide excellent electrical conductivity and robust catalytic activity by adding functionalized nanoparticles into MOF structures, which process benefits over single component MOFs. CI - Copyright(c) Bentham Science Publishers; For any queries, please email at epub@benthamscience.net. FAU - Kundu, Sudipto AU - Kundu S AD - Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, JSS College of Pharmacy, JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research Ooty, Nilgiris, Tamilnadu, India. FAU - Swaroop, Akey Krishna AU - Swaroop AK AD - Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, JSS College of Pharmacy, JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research Ooty, Nilgiris, Tamilnadu, India. FAU - Selvaraj, Jubie AU - Selvaraj J AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-4633-6621 AD - Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, JSS College of Pharmacy, JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research Ooty, Nilgiris, Tamilnadu, India. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - United Arab Emirates TA - Curr Top Med Chem JT - Current topics in medicinal chemistry JID - 101119673 RN - 0 (Metal-Organic Frameworks) RN - 0 (Pharmaceutical Preparations) RN - 0 (Ligands) RN - 0 (Polymers) RN - 0 (Metals) RN - 0 (Excipients) SB - IM MH - Humans MH - *Metal-Organic Frameworks/chemistry MH - Pharmaceutical Preparations MH - Ligands MH - Drug Delivery Systems MH - Polymers MH - Metals/chemistry MH - *Neoplasms/drug therapy MH - Excipients OTO - NOTNLM OT - Antitumor agents OT - Biomedical application. OT - Biosensing OT - Drug delivery system OT - Metal organic framework OT - Photodynamic treatment EDAT- 2023/02/04 06:00 MHDA- 2023/07/21 06:44 CRDT- 2023/02/03 01:08 PHST- 2022/07/26 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/11/28 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2022/12/16 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2023/07/21 06:44 [medline] PHST- 2023/02/04 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/02/03 01:08 [entrez] AID - CTMC-EPUB-129237 [pii] AID - 10.2174/1568026623666230202122519 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Curr Top Med Chem. 2023;23(13):1155-1170. doi: 10.2174/1568026623666230202122519.