TABLE 2.

Liposome-like structures.

Liposomes -like structure	Description
Niosome	Niosomes are attributed to carriers consisting of nonionic surfactants through cholesterol hydration (Sankhyan and Pawar, 2012; Puras et al., 2014; Arora, 2016)
Phytosome	Phytosomes are made from plant compounds. Phytosomes are lipid nanocarriers produced by phospholipids’ binding to polyphenols in organic solvents (Kidd, 2009; Jain et al., 2010; Pawar and Bhangale, 2015; Abd El-Fattah et al., 2017)
Virosomes	Virosomes are spherical shape structures with a mono/bilayer phospholipid-based membrane. The embedded central cavity of these structures is used to loading the therapeutic molecules such as nucleic acids, proteins, and drugs (Felnerova et al., 2004; Daemen et al., 2005)
BODIPYsome	The aza-BODIPY lipid is the building block that is self-assembled into a BODIPYsome vesicle structure capable of stable N.I.R. J-aggregation (Cheng et al., 2019)
DQAsomes	DQAsomes are vesicular structures composed of amphiphiles, decolinium (Zupančič et al., 2014; Weissig, 2015; Bae et al., 2018)
Archaeosomes	Archaeosomes is a new family of liposomes. They have been made of one or more ether lipids that are unique to the Archaea constitute domain. These types of structures are found in Archaeobacteria. Achaean-type lipids consist of archaeol (diether) and/or caldarchaeol (tetraether) core structures (Réthoré et al., 2007; Benvegnu et al., 2009; Kaur et al., 2016)
Ethosomes	Ethosomes are phospholipid nanovesicles. These structures are composed of flexible bilayers phospholipid, with a relatively high ethanol concentration (20–45%), glycols, and water. Transdermal delivery is considered the main application of the Ethosomes (Dayan and Touitou, 2000; Ainbinder et al., 2010)