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| Content Provider | Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
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| Author | Ahmed, Shaimaa Kalhapure, Rahul S. Vepuri, Suresh B. Govender, Thirumala |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Abstract | Dendrimers have emerged as novel and efficient materials that can be used as therapeutic agents/drugs or as drug delivery carriers to enhance therapeutic outcomes. Molecular dendrimer interactions are central to their applications and realising their potential. The molecular interactions of dendrimers with drugs or other materials in drug delivery systems or drug conjugates have been extensively reported in the literature. However, despite the growing application of dendrimers as biologically active materials, research focusing on the mechanistic analysis of dendrimer interactions with therapeutic biological targets is currently lacking in the literature. This comprehensive review on dendrimers over the last 15 years therefore attempts to identify the reasons behind the apparent lack of dendrimer–receptor research and proposes approaches to address this issue. The structure, hierarchy and applications of dendrimers are briefly highlighted, followed by a review of their various applications, specifically as biologically active materials, with a focus on their interactions at the target site. It concludes with a technical guide to assist researchers on how to employ various molecular modelling and computational approaches for research on dendrimer interactions with biological targets at a molecular level. This review highlights the impact of a mechanistic analysis of dendrimer interactions on a molecular level, serves to guide and optimise their discovery as medicinal agents, and hopes to stimulate multidisciplinary research between scientific, experimental and molecular modelling research teams. |
| Starting Page | 1032 |
| Ending Page | 1050 |
| Page Count | 19 |
| File Format | HTM / HTML PDF |
| ISSN | 20474830 |
| Volume Number | 4 |
| Issue Number | 7 |
| Journal | Biomaterials Science |
| DOI | 10.1039/c6bm00090h |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Royal Society of Chemistry |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Dendrimer Molecular modelling Drug delivery |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Materials Science Biomedical Engineering |
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