Tweaking dendrimers and dendritic nanoparticles for controlled nano-bio interactions: Potential nanocarriers for improved cancer targeting

J Bugno, H Hsu, S Hong - Journal of drug targeting, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Nanoparticles have shown great promise in the treatment of cancer, with a demonstrated
potential in targeted drug delivery. Among a myriad of nanocarriers that have been recently …

[PDF][PDF] Dendrimer-based strategies for cancer therapy: Recent advances and future perspectives

Z Xiong, M Shen, X Shi - Sci. China Mater, 2018 - academia.edu
This review reports some recent advances on the use of dendrimer-based systems for
cancer therapy. Dendrimers are emerging as promising carriers or stabilizers for drugs and …

Dendrimers as drug delivery vehicles: non‐covalent interactions of bioactive compounds with dendrimers

HL Crampton, EE Simanek - Polymer international, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
This mini review highlights issues associated with the use of dendrimers as drug delivery
vehicles. The review introduces dendrimers and summarizes findings on their use in vivo …

Dendrimer–doxorubicin conjugate for enhanced therapeutic effects for cancer

S Chandra, S Dietrich, H Lang… - Journal of Materials …, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
An oligo (ethylene glycol)-grafted amidoamine dendrimer was synthesized and
characterized by FTIR, MS, 1H and 13C NMR. The dendritic scaffold was evaluated for its …

Dextran conjugated dendritic nanoconstructs as potential vectors for anti-cancer agent

A Agarwal, U Gupta, A Asthana, NK Jain - Biomaterials, 2009 - Elsevier
The purpose of the present investigation was to evaluate the potential of surface engineered
polypropylene imine (PPI) dendrimers as nanoscale drug delivery units for site-specific …

Dendrimers in drug research

U Boas, PMH Heegaard - Chemical Society Reviews, 2004 - pubs.rsc.org
Dendrimers are versatile, derivatisable, well-defined, compartmentalised chemical polymers
with sizes and physicochemical properties resembling those of biomolecules eg proteins …

Surface modified dendrimers: synthesis and characterization for cancer targeted drug delivery

A Sharma, SP Gautam, AK Gupta - Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry, 2011 - Elsevier
Dendrimers represents a highly branched three-dimensional structure that provides a high
degree of surface functionality and versatility. PAMAM dendrimers are used as well-defined …

Targeted nanosystems: Advances in targeted dendrimers for cancer therapy

H Yang - Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine, 2016 - Elsevier
Dendrimers possess discrete highly compact nanostructures constituted of successive
branched layers. Soon after the inception of dendrimers, recognition of their tunable …

Crossing cellular barriers using dendrimer nanotechnologies

M Najlah, A D'Emanuele - Current opinion in pharmacology, 2006 - Elsevier
Dendrimers represent a class of polymers characterised by their well-defined structure, with
a high degree of molecular uniformity and low polydispersity. They have found a wide-range …

Peptide dendrimers: Drug/gene delivery and other approaches

SS Santos, RV Gonzaga, JV Silva… - Canadian Journal of …, 2017 - cdnsciencepub.com
Dendrimers are versatile hyperbranched molecules, which have deserved attention
especially for their potential in many applications, including biological. Peptide dendrimers …