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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Drug Deliv Rev. 2021 Sep 29;178:113992. doi: 10.1016/j.addr.2021.113992

Table 7.

Methods of RBC drug loading.

Drug loading Approaches
Inner Via pores induced by hypotonic swelling Established
Using MPP Exploratory
Genetic modification of reticulocytes In progress
Surface Chemical conjugation to surface proteins Exploratory
Insertion into membrane phospholipids As above
Physical absorption As above
Binding mediated by affinity ligand As above
Membrane

Abbreviations: MPP – membrane permeabilizing protein