Dendrimers: Nanosized Multifunctional Platform for Drug Delivery

Title:Dendrimers: Nanosized Multifunctional Platform for Drug Delivery

Volume: 8 Issue: 1

Author(s): Ankur Vaidya *, Shweta Jain , Kamla Pathak and Devender Pathak

Affiliation:

• Pharmacy College, Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences, Saifai, Etawah (UP),India

Keywords: Dendrimers, applications, cosmetics, biomedical, pharmaceutical, nanosized multifunctional platform.

Abstract: Background: Dendrimers are nano-sized drug delivery systems that present significant advantages, including ease of construction, large number of polymers available for their synthesis and amenability to affix various types of ligands for targeting to specific site. The nanosystem with unique functional architecture and macromolecular characteristics has garnered considerable interest amongst researchers and various research reports and patents inputs can be found in literature.

Objective: Till date more than ten families of dendrimers have been reported for their wide applications in medicine including diagnostic/clinical, and also in industrial arenas. Unlike traditional polymers, many dendrimers have remarkable features like improved aqueous solubility, biocompatibility, polyvalency and precise molecular weight. These features make dendrimers an ideal vehicle for drug delivery and targeting applications.

Conclusion: The current review is an attempt to define types of dendrimers and their applications in drug delivery and cosmetics. The write up also highlights future perspectives of the multifunctional nanosystem.

Cite this article as:

Vaidya Ankur *, Jain Shweta , Pathak Kamla and Pathak Devender, Dendrimers: Nanosized Multifunctional Platform for Drug Delivery, Drug Delivery Letters 2018; 8 (1) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/2210303107666171109112523