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SUBMITTER: Cheetham AG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5844511 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cheetham Andrew G AG Chakroun Rami W RW Ma Wang W Cui Honggang H
Chemical Society reviews 20171001 21
Covalent modification of therapeutic compounds is a clinically proven strategy to devise prodrugs with enhanced treatment efficacies. This prodrug strategy relies on the modified drugs that possess advantageous pharmacokinetic properties and administration routes over their parent drug. Self-assembling prodrugs represent an emerging class of therapeutic agents capable of spontaneously associating into well-defined supramolecular nanostructures in aqueous solutions. The self-assembly of prodrugs ...[more]