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Applications of calixarene nano-baskets in pharmacology

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Calixarene nano-baskets enable to encapsulate the guest drugs and show different biological activities. This review deals with the behavior of calixarene-based drugs and illustrates their potentials in the pharmacological sciences. The role of calixarene’s scaffolds and substitutions in aspects of anti-cancer, anti-mycobacterial, anti-proliferativity, catalytic and inhibitory activities as well as solubility control, drug analysis, drug purification, drug supports and structural studies is reviewed.

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Mokhtari, B., Pourabdollah, K. Applications of calixarene nano-baskets in pharmacology. J Incl Phenom Macrocycl Chem 73, 1–15 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10847-011-0062-z

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