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Dentistry

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2020

Immunotherapy

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Carbosilane Dendrimers: Drug And Gene Delivery Applications, Navid Rabiee, Shokooh Ahmadvand, Sepideh Ahmadi, Yousef Fatahi, Rassoul Dinarvand, Mojtaba Bagherzadeh, Mohammad Rabiee, Mohammadreza Tahriri, Lobat Tayebi, Michael R. Hamblin Oct 2020

Carbosilane Dendrimers: Drug And Gene Delivery Applications, Navid Rabiee, Shokooh Ahmadvand, Sepideh Ahmadi, Yousef Fatahi, Rassoul Dinarvand, Mojtaba Bagherzadeh, Mohammad Rabiee, Mohammadreza Tahriri, Lobat Tayebi, Michael R. Hamblin

School of Dentistry Faculty Research and Publications

Carbosilane dendrimers are a particular type of dendrimer structure that has been used as delivery vehicles for drugs and nucleic acids. They have a defined structure according to their generation number, and their terminal groups can be rendered cationic or anionic. The cationic charges can address the limitation of electrostatic repulsion between the negatively charged phosphate groups of nucleic acids and negatively charged cell membranes. Specific drugs can be loaded into the central part of the dendrimer or attached at the exterior, and the overall positive charge may improve the efficacy of anti-inflammatory drugs. One promising feature of dendrimers is …


Adoptive Treg Cell-Based Immunotherapy: Frontier Therapeutic Aspects In Rheumatoid Arthritis, Mahdi Zavvar, Sara Assadiasl, Sina Zargaran, Maryam Akhtari, Behzad Poopak, Rassoul Dinarvand, Yousef Fatahi, Lobat Tayebi, Narjes Soleimanifar, Mohammad Hossein Nicknam Aug 2020

Adoptive Treg Cell-Based Immunotherapy: Frontier Therapeutic Aspects In Rheumatoid Arthritis, Mahdi Zavvar, Sara Assadiasl, Sina Zargaran, Maryam Akhtari, Behzad Poopak, Rassoul Dinarvand, Yousef Fatahi, Lobat Tayebi, Narjes Soleimanifar, Mohammad Hossein Nicknam

School of Dentistry Faculty Research and Publications

The major current focus on treating rheumatoid arthritis is to put an end to long-term treatments and instead, specifically block widespread immunosuppression by developing antigen-specific tolerance, while also permitting an intact immune response toward other antigens to occur. There have been promising preclinical findings regarding adoptive Treg cells immunotherapy with a critically responsible function in the prevention of autoimmunity, tissue repair and regeneration, which make them an attractive candidate to develop effective therapeutic approaches to achieve this interesting concept in many human immune-mediated diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis. Ex vivo or invivo manipulation protocols are not only utilized to correct …