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Drug Delivery Systems‐Based Dendrimers and Polymer Micelles for Nuclear Diagnosis and Therapy

2021; Wiley; Volume: 21; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/mabi.202000362

1616-5195

Liliana Aranda‐Lara, Blanca Ocampo‐García, Keila Isaac‐Olivé, Guillermina Ferro‐Flores, Laura Meléndez‐Alafort, Enrique Morales-Ávila,

Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization

Polymeric nanoparticles encompass micelles and dendrimers. They are used for improving or controlling the action of the loaded therapy or imaging agent, including radionuclides. Some radionuclides possess properties appropriate for simultaneous imaging and therapy of a disease and are therefore called theranostic. The diversity in core materials and surface modification, as well as radiolabeling strategies, offers multiples possibilities for preparing polymeric nanoparticles using radionuclides. The present review describes different strategies in the preparation of such nanoparticles and their applications in nuclear nanomedicine.