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ReviewWiley interdisciplinary reviews. Nanomedicine and nanobiotechnology

Understanding specific and nonspecific toxicities: a requirement for the development of dendrimer-based pharmaceuticals.

Daniel Q McNerny, Pascale R Leroueil, James R Baker

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Review in Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Nanomedicine and nanobiotechnology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Daniel Q McNernyDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Michigan Nanotechnology Institute for Medicine and Biological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. dmcnerny@umich.com
Pascale R Leroueil
James R Baker

Funding

NOVEL TECHNOLOGIES FOR NONINVASIVE DETECTION, DIAGNOSISN01CO097111 · CO · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI BAKER, JAMES R · 1999 to 2000
$1.5M
NCI NIH HHS N01 CO097111
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dendrimer conjugates for pharmaceutical development are capable of enhancing the local delivery of cytotoxic drugs. The ability to conjugate different targeting ligands to the dendrimer allows for the cytotoxic drug to be focused at the intended target cell while minimizing collateral damage in normal cells. Dendrimers offer several advantages over other polymer conjugates by creating a better defined, more monodisperse therapeutic scaffold. Toxicity from the dendrimer, targeted and nonspecific, is not only dependent upon the number of targeting and therapeutic ligands conjugated, but can be influenced by the repeating building blocks that grow the dendrimer, the dendrimer generation, as well as the surface termination.

Indexed as

Drug Delivery SystemsAnimalsCytotoxinsDendrimersDrug CarriersHumansModels, MolecularCytotoxinsDendrimersDrug Carriers

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PMID20166124
PMCPMC2905802

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