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g g g g g g go was reported in another approach, the nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug naproxen was covalently attached to unsymmetrical example of neurontin written prescription latin polyarylester dendrimers to prepare a complex with enhanced water solubility of the drug and access for hydrplytic cleavage e t example of neurontin written prescription latin ek k k k concentration mmolecular weight fig aqueous paclitaxel solubility as a function of the polyglycerol dendrimer concentration mean � sd, n = g circle, g triangle, g square, and peg diamond left molecular weight dependency of dendrimers closed example of neurontin written prescription latin circle and peg open circle on the aqueous paclitaxel solubility the concentration of dendrimers and peg was wt reproduced example of neurontin written prescription latin with permission from ref copyright american chemical society of the bond between drug and carrier detailed results on the biological example of neurontin written prescription latin evaluation of these complexes have not been reported the anticancer drug paclitaxel, which is being used to treat metastatic breast example of neurontin written prescription latin and ovarian cancers and kaposis sarcoma, has poor water solubility to enhance its bioavailability, paclitaxel has been encapsulated into example of neurontin written prescription latin polyglycerol dendrimers, resulting in a ,fold improved water solubility compared with the pure drug, which is much higher than that found for peg, a commonly used linear chain cosolvent or hydrotropic agent fig the drug release rate was a function example of neurontin written prescription latin of the dendrimer generation generation ����� dendrimers with hydroxy surface have been utilized to improve the bioavailability of the corticosteroid methylprednisolone, which decreases inflammation by stabilizing leukocyte lysosomal membrane by connecting the drug to the dendrimer using glutaric acid example of 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