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Delivery system

Medicine delivery systems encompass four main related aspects:
  1. Routes of delivery (ways in which the medications can be taken, such as orally, by injection, by inhalation, etc.).
  2. Delivery vehicles (dosage forms such as pills or slow-release granules).
  3. Chemical/biological properties of the active substance of the medicine (the cargo).
  4. Targeting strategies (delivery methods that deliver medicines to specific organs, tissues, tumours or structures inside of cells).

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