| abstract |
The present disclosure provides milk vesicles as drug delivery vehicles, compositions comprising a therapeutic agent encapsulated within or otherwise associated with the milk vesicles, methods of producing such milk vesicles and compositions thereof, as well as methods of delivering such milk vesicles and compositions to a specific patient tissue or organ. Also provided herein is a composition comprising milk vesicles, wherein the milk vesicles comprise a lipid membrane to which one or more proteins are associated, and wherein (a) a relative abundance of casein in the composition is less than about 40%, and/or (b) a relative abundance of lactoglobulin in the composition is less than about 25%. |