Biomedical applications of dendrimers: a tutorial

MA Mintzer, MW Grinstaff - Chemical Society Reviews, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Since their development in the mid-80s, dendrimers have become prominent synthetic
macromolecules in the field of biomedical science. This tutorial review begins by discussing …

Applications of dendrimers in drug delivery agents, diagnosis, therapy, and detection

B Noriega-Luna, LA Godínez… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, the application of dendrimers in biomedicine attracted much attention from
scientists. Dendrimers are interesting for biomedical applications because of their …

An injectable vehicle for nucleus pulposus cell-based therapy

EC Collin, S Grad, DI Zeugolis, CS Vinatier, JR Clouet… - Biomaterials, 2011 - Elsevier
An injectable hydrogel, acting as a reservoir for cell delivery and mimicking the native
environment, offers promise for nucleus pulposus (NP) repair and regeneration. Herein, the …

Dendrimer as a momentous tool in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine

A Shaikh, P Kesharwani, V Gajbhiye - Journal of Controlled Release, 2022 - Elsevier
Dendrimers have been comprehensively used for cargo delivery, nucleic acid delivery
(genes, miRNA/siRNAs), delivery of macromolecules, and other various biomedical …

Carbodiimide cross-linked amniotic membranes for cultivation of limbal epithelial cells

DHK Ma, JY Lai, HY Cheng, CC Tsai, LK Yeh - Biomaterials, 2010 - Elsevier
In ophthalmic tissue engineering, amniotic membrane (AM) is one of the most prevalent
natural matrices used for limbal epithelial cell (LEC) cultivation and transplantation …

Rational design of surface-state controlled multicolor cross-linked carbon dots with distinct photoluminescence and cellular uptake properties

I Srivastava, P Moitra, M Fayyaz, S Pandit… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We disclose for the first time a facile synthetic methodology for the preparation of multicolor
carbon dots (CDs) from a single source barring any chromatographic separations. This was …

Conformal, amine-functionalized thin films by initiated chemical vapor deposition (iCVD) for hydrolytically stable microfluidic devices

J Xu, KK Gleason - Chemistry of Materials, 2010 - ACS Publications
Poly (4-aminostyrene)(PAS) thin films were synthesized via initiated chemical vapor
deposition (iCVD) with tert-butyl peroxide as the initiator, representing the first time that a …

[HTML][HTML] Dendritic polymers in tissue engineering: Contributions of PAMAM, PPI PEG and PEI to injury restoration and bioactive scaffold evolution

M Arkas, M Vardavoulias, G Kythreoti… - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
The capability of radially polymerized bio-dendrimers and hyperbranched polymers for
medical applications is well established. Perhaps the most important implementations are …

Improved GFP gene transfection mediated by polyamidoamine dendrimer-functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes with high biocompatibility

W Qin, K Yang, H Tang, L Tan, Q Xie, M Ma… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2011 - Elsevier
The multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs)-polyamidoamine (PAMAM) hybrid was
prepared by covalent linkage approach, and characterized by transmission electron …

Applications of dendrimers in tissue engineering

N Joshi, M Grinstaff - Current topics in medicinal chemistry, 2008 - ingentaconnect.com
Despite the wide-spread use of dendrimers in biomedical applications, their use in the
fabrication of tissue engineering scaffolds has been limited. The highly branched …