Colloidal gold has been studied for its potential application in medicine for centuries.
However, synthesis and evaluation of various gold nanoparticles have only recently been …

The formation of particulate systems with well-defined sizes and shapes is of eminent
interest in certain medical applications such as drug delivery, gene transfection, and …

RNA interference is a naturally occurring endogenous regulatory process where short
double-stranded RNA causes sequence-specific posttranscriptional gene silencing. Small …

Dendrimers are versatile, derivatisable, well-defined, compartmentalised chemical polymers
with sizes and physicochemical properties resembling those of biomolecules eg proteins …

In the past decade, nanomedicine with its promise of improved therapy and diagnostics has
revolutionized conventional health care and medical technology. Dendrimers and dendrimer …

Magnetism in medicine has had a long and interesting history. In the 10th century AD,
Egyptian physician and philosopher Avicenna prescribed a grain of magnetite dissolved in …

Dendrimers are new class of polymeric materials. It is generally described as a
macromolecule, which is characterized by its extensively branched 3D structure that …

Dendrimers are three-dimensional macromolecular structures originating from a central core
molecule and surrounded by successive addition of branching layers (generation). These …

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 …

The interaction between drugs and dendrimers is reviewed with particular reference to the
entrapment of drugs within the dendrimer architecture and the electrostatic and covalent …