Safety Challenges and Application Strategies for the Use of Dendrimers in Medicine

• Main Authors: Xiang Li (Author), Abid Naeem (Author), Shanghua Xiao (Author), Lei Hu (Author), Jing Zhang (Author), Qin Zheng (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

Dendrimers are used for a variety of applications in medicine but, due to their host-guest and entrapment characteristics, are particularly used for the delivery of genes and drugs. However, dendrimers are intrinsically toxic, thus creating a major limitation for their use in biological systems. To...