Applications and limitations of dendrimers in biomedicine

AA Chis, C Dobrea, C Morgovan, AM Arseniu, LL Rus… - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Biomedicine represents one of the main study areas for dendrimers, which have proven to
be valuable both in diagnostics and therapy, due to their capacity for improving solubility …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging innate biological properties of nano-drug delivery systems: A focus on PAMAM dendrimers and their clinical potential

H Kheraldine, O Rachid, AM Habib… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
Drug delivery systems or vectors are usually needed to improve the bioavailability and
effectiveness of a drug through improving its pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics at an …

Emerging concepts in dendrimer‐based nanomedicine: from design principles to clinical applications

RM Kannan, E Nance, S Kannan… - Journal of internal …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Dendrimers are discrete nanostructures/nanoparticles with 'onion skin‐like'branched layers.
Beginning with a core, these nanostructures grow in concentric layers to produce stepwise …

Poly (amidoamine)(PAMAM) dendrimer mediated delivery of drug and pDNA/siRNA for cancer therapy

J Li, H Liang, J Liu, Z Wang - International journal of pharmaceutics, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Poly (amidoamine)(PAMAM) dendrimers are well-defined, highly branched
macromolecules with numerous active amine groups on the surface. Because of their …

Surface-engineered dendrimers in gene delivery

J Yang, Q Zhang, H Chang, Y Cheng - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
1. DENDRIMERS AND GENE DELIVERY Gene therapy represents a promising option for
the treatment of diseases such as inherited disorders, viral infections, and cancers. 1− 3 A …

Recent advances in preclinical research using PAMAM dendrimers for cancer gene therapy

P Tarach, A Janaszewska - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Carriers of genetic material are divided into vectors of viral and non-viral origin. Viral carriers
are already successfully used in experimental gene therapies, but despite advantages such …

Safety challenges and application strategies for the use of dendrimers in medicine

X Li, A Naeem, S Xiao, L Hu, J Zhang, Q Zheng - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Dendrimers are used for a variety of applications in medicine but, due to their host–guest
and entrapment characteristics, are particularly used for the delivery of genes and drugs …

Nanoscale effects in dendrimer-mediated targeting of neuroinflammation

E Nance, F Zhang, MK Mishra, Z Zhang… - Biomaterials, 2016 - Elsevier
Neuroinflammation, mediated by activated microglia and astrocytes, plays a key role in the
pathogenesis of many neurological disorders. Systemically-administered dendrimers target …

In-vitro in-vivo correlation (IVIVC) in nanomedicine: Is protein corona the missing link?

P Jain, RS Pawar, RS Pandey, J Madan, S Pawar… - Biotechnology …, 2017 - Elsevier
One of the unmet challenges in nanotechnology is to understand and establish the
relationship between physicochemical properties of nanoparticles (NPs) and its biological …

Dendrimers show promise for siRNA and microRNA therapeutics

V Dzmitruk, E Apartsin, A Ihnatsyeu-Kachan… - Pharmaceutics, 2018 - mdpi.com
The lack of an appropriate intracellular delivery system for therapeutic nucleic acids (TNAs)
is a major problem in molecular biology, biotechnology, and medicine. A relatively new class …