Dendrimers:: Relationship between structure and biocompatibility in vitro, and preliminary studies on the biodistribution of 125I-labelled polyamidoamine dendrimers …

N Malik, R Wiwattanapatapee, R Klopsch… - Journal of Controlled …, 2000 - Elsevier
Dendrimers are highly branched macromolecules of low polydispersity that provide many
exciting opportunities for design of novel drug-carriers, gene delivery systems and imaging …

Dendrimers as versatile platform in drug delivery applications

S Svenson - European Journal of Pharmaceutics and …, 2009 - Elsevier
About forty percent of newly developed drugs are rejected by the pharmaceutical industry
and will never benefit a patient because of poor bioavailability due to low water solubility …

Dendrimers for drug delivery

AS Chauhan - Molecules, 2018 - mdpi.com
Dendrimers have come a long way in the last 25 years since their inception. Originally
created as a wonder molecule of chemistry, dendrimer is now in the fourth class of polymers …

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 …

Bioinspired application of dendrimers: from bio-mimicry to biomedical applications

WD Jang, KMK Selim, CH Lee, IK Kang - Progress in Polymer Science, 2009 - Elsevier
Over the past few years, utilization of dendrimers in nano-biotechnology applications such
as bio-mimicry, diagnostics, and therapeutics has attracted a great deal of attention, far …

How to study dendrimers and dendriplexes III. Biodistribution, pharmacokinetics and toxicity in vivo

D Shcharbin, A Janaszewska… - Journal of controlled …, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the biodistribution, toxicity and pharmacokinetics of pure dendrimers and
their complexes with nucleic acids (dendriplexes) in animals, including mice, rats, rabbits …

Dendrimers as multi-purpose nanodevices for oncology drug delivery and diagnostic imaging

DA Tomalia, LA Reyna, S Svenson - 2007 - portlandpress.com
Dendrimers are routinely synthesized as tuneable nanostructures that may be designed and
regulated as a function of their size, shape, surface chemistry and interior void space. They …

Therapeutic and diagnostic applications of dendrimers for cancer treatment

JB Wolinsky, MW Grinstaff - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2008 - Elsevier
Dendrimers are prepared with a level of control not attainable with most linear polymers,
leading to nearly monodisperse, globular macromolecules with a large number of peripheral …

A surface‐modified dendrimer set for potential application as drug delivery vehicles: synthesis, in vitro toxicity, and intracellular localization

S Fuchs, T Kapp, H Otto, T Schöneberg… - … A European Journal, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
The synthesis, cytotoxicity, and behavior in cell culture of a new set of first‐(G1) and second‐
generation (G2) dendrimers is reported. The surface functionality of these dendrimers has …

The influence of surface modification on the cytotoxicity of PAMAM dendrimers

R Jevprasesphant, J Penny, R Jalal, D Attwood… - International journal of …, 2003 - Elsevier
The influence of surface modification on the cytotoxicity of PAMAM dendrimers was
examined using Caco-2 cells. Dendrimers were modified by conjugating either lauroyl …