Abstract
Polymer therapeutics is considered the first generation of “nanomedicines.” This family of compounds and drug-delivery systems are based on water-soluble polymers that can either be bioactive on their own or an inert functional part of a multifunctional complex, which includes polymer–protein conjugates, polymer–drug conjugates, polymeric micelles, polymeric drugs, and nonviral polyplexes for gene delivery.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Wiley Encyclopedia of Chemical Biology |
| Editors | Tadhg P. Begley |
| Publisher | American Cancer Society, Inc. |
| Pages | 1-17 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780470048672 |
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| State | Published - 2008 |