Stimuli-responsive polymers and their applications in nanomedicine

E Cabane, X Zhang, K Langowska, CG Palivan… - …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
This review focuses on smart nano-materials built of stimuli-responsive (SR) polymers and
will discuss their numerous applications in the biomedical field. The authors will first provide …

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 …

The effects of polymeric nanostructure shape on drug delivery

S Venkataraman, JL Hedrick, ZY Ong, C Yang… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2011 - Elsevier
Amphiphilic polymeric nanostructures have long been well-recognized as an excellent
candidate for drug delivery applications. With the recent advances in the “top-down” and …

Dendrimers for drug delivery

AM Caminade, CO Turrin - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Due to their nanometric size, dendrimers have been considered as potentially suitable as
new vehicles for drug delivery since their infancy. The association of a dendrimer and a drug …

Dendrimers and hyperbranched structures for biomedical applications

E Pedziwiatr-Werbicka, K Milowska, V Dzmitruk… - European Polymer …, 2019 - Elsevier
The use of nanotechnology in biology and medicine has been marked by rapid progress of
these industries due to the emergence of new devices, supramolecular systems, structures …

Phosphorus-containing polymers: a great opportunity for the biomedical field

S Monge, B Canniccioni, A Graillot… - Biomacromolecules, 2011 - ACS Publications
This Review is focused on the growing interest brought to phosphorus-containing organic
materials for applications in the biomedical field, mainly because of their properties such as …

Gene delivery using dendrimer-entrapped gold nanoparticles as nonviral vectors

Y Shan, T Luo, C Peng, R Sheng, A Cao, X Cao… - Biomaterials, 2012 - Elsevier
Development of highly efficient nonviral gene delivery vectors still remains a great
challenge. In this study, we report a new gene delivery vector based on dendrimer …

Emerging gene therapies for genetic hearing loss

H Ahmed, O Shubina-Oleinik, JR Holt - … of the Association for Research in …, 2017 - Springer
Gene therapy, or the treatment of human disease using genetic material, for inner ear
dysfunction is coming of age. Recent progress in developing gene therapy treatments for …

[HTML][HTML] Application of new lysine-based peptide dendrimers D3K2 and D3G2 for gene delivery: Specific cytotoxicity to cancer cells and transfection in vitro

M Gorzkiewicz, M Konopka, A Janaszewska… - Bioorganic …, 2020 - Elsevier
In order to enhance intracellular uptake and accumulation of therapeutic nucleic acids for
improved gene therapy methods, numerous delivery vectors have been elaborated. Based …

Nanoparticles for local delivery of siRNA in lung therapy

M Kubczak, S Michlewska, M Bryszewska… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
An overview of the application of natural and synthetic, non-viral vectors for oligonucleotide
delivery into the lung is presented in this review, with a special focus on lung cancer. Due to …