References
- The therapeutic index of a drug is defined as the ratio of the toxic dose to the therapeutic dose
- The term “polymer therapeutics” was coined by Helmut Ringsdorf and Ruth Duncan. Other research groups use the more general term “nanomedicine”
- Gros , L. , Ringsdorf , H. and Schupp , H. 1981 . Angew. Chem. , 93 : 311 – 332 .
- Duncan , R. 2003 . Nat. Rev. Drug Discovery , 2 : 347 – 360 .
- Duncan , R. 2005 . Encyclopedia of Molecular Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine Vol. 14 , Edited by: Meyers , R. A. 163 Weinheim : Wiley-VCH .
- Kumar , R. , Shakil , N. A. , Chen , Ming-H. , Parmar , V. S. , Samuelson , L. A. , Kumar , J. and Watterson , A. C. 2002 . Journ.of Macr. Sci., Pure and Applied Chem. , A39 ( 10 ) : 1137 – 1149 .
- Pandey , M. K. , Tyagi , R. , Tomar , S. , Kumar , J. , Parmar , V. S. and Watterson , A. C. 2007 . Journ. of Macr. Sci., Pure and Applied Chem. , 44 ( 12 ) : 1293 – 1298 .
- Kumar , R. , Chen , Ming-H. , Parmar , V. S. , Samuelson , L. A. , Kumar , J. , Nicolosi , R. , Yoganathan , S. and Watterson , A. C. 2004 . Journ.of the Amer. Chem. Soc. , 126 ( 34 ) : 10640 – 10644 .
- Kumar , R. , Pandey , M. K. , Tyagi , R. , Parmar , V. S. , Watterson , A. C. and Kumar , J. 2008 . Polymers for Biomedical Applications . ACS Symposium Series , 977 : 204 – 224 .