Abstract
This chapter provides a brief description of the synthesis, biological evaluation, and biomedical applications of dendrimers especially in dendrimer-mediated cancer therapy in the last decade with an emphasis on the development and use of dendrimers in cancer therapeutics.
Keywords:
Dendrimers, initiator core, oligoarginine, PAMAM dendrimers, linker, HPMA, PEG, LHRH, PEGylated dendrimers, nanomedicines, nanoparticulate systems, micribicides, gene carriers, non-viral gene delivery systems, biomedical imaging.