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ReviewRSC advances2025

Polymeric nanocarriers in drug delivery, bioimaging, and biosensing: advances and perspectives on nanomicelles, nanogels, and dendrimers.

Mehdi Rajabi, Hossein Feyzbakhsh

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Review in RSC advances, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Mehdi RajabiGuilan University Guilan Iran mehdi.raajabi72@gmail.com.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0009-6990-8280
Hossein FeyzbakhshUniversità di Bologna Bologna Italy hossein.feyzbakhsh@studio.unibo.it.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6687-8737

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Polymeric nanocarriers such as nanomicelles, nanogels, and dendrimers are critical nanomedicine tools, providing novel drug delivery, bioimaging, and biosensing solutions. The design, synthesis, and potential of polymeric nanocarriers to solve long-term biomedical issues are addressed in this review. Nanomicelles, which are self-assembled from amphiphilic copolymers, increase drug solubility such as paclitaxel and allow stimuli-responsive site-specific release controlled by pH or light. Nanogels comprising water-holding polymer networks deliver and protect a broad variety of agents, ranging from anticancer drugs to insulin, across barriers, such as the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Tree-branched dendrimers enhance drug delivery and contrast imaging through precise molecular conjugation. For bioimaging, these carriers increase the resolution of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), and near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence imaging, while for biosensing, they enable sensitive detection of glucose and other analytes. Despite their potential, scalability, and clinical translation, challenges exist. This review charts their groundbreaking impact through case studies and paving the way for personalized medicine.

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PMID41140492
PMCPMC12547661

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