Journal
ARCHIVES OF PHARMACAL RESEARCH
Volume 41, Issue 6, Pages 571-582Publisher
PHARMACEUTICAL SOC KOREA
DOI: 10.1007/s12272-018-1008-4
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Dendrimer; Drug delivery; Nanoarchitecture; Nanomedicine; Nanotechnology
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- Chung-Ang University Research Scholarship
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Ministry of Education [NRF-2016R1D1A1B03934847]
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Dendrimers offer well-defined nanoarchitectures with spherical shape, high degree of molecular uniformity, and multiple surface functionalities. Such unique structural properties of dendrimers have created many applications for drug and gene delivery, nanomedicine, diagnostics, and biomedical engineering. Dendrimers are not only capable of delivering drugs or diagnostic agents to desired sites by encapsulating or conjugating them to the periphery, but also have therapeutic efficacy in their own. When compared to traditional polymers for drug delivery, dendrimers have distinct advantages, such as high drug-loading capacity at the surface terminal for conjugation or interior space for encapsulation, size control with well-defined numbers of peripheries, and multivalency for conjugation to drugs, targeting moieties, molecular sensors, and biopolymers. This review focuses on recent applications of dendrimers for the development of dendrimer-based nanomedicines for cancer, inflammation, and viral infection. Although dendrimer-based nanomedicines still face some challenges including scale-up production and well-characterization, several dendrimer-based drug candidates are expected to enter clinical development phase in the near future.
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