“…SLN are able to carry drugs of different structure and lipophilicity, such as cyclosporine A (Ugazio, Cavalli, & Gasco, 2002), paclitaxel (Cavalli, Caputo, & Gasco, 2000), doxorubicin (Fundaro, Cavalli, Bargoni, Vighetto, & Gasco, 2000), tobramycin (Cavalli et al, 2003), shortchain fatty acids AU9 (Dianzani et al, 2006), peptides (Morel, Cavalli, & Gasco, 1996), antisense oligonucleotides (Brioschi et al, 2008), and melatonin (MT) (Rezzani et al, 2009). Also diagnostic compounds such as iron oxides (Pereira, 2003 AU10 ) have been incorporated into SLN.…”