| Owing to the severe side-effects of traditional drug delivery, desired outcomes have not been fully achieved. Hence, there are growing demands for new functional materials as drug carriers. In recent years the special properties of dendrimers converted them as a hopeful platform for drug delivery applications. Despite the dendrimer's benefits, some of the dendrimers have various disadvantages that limited their application as a drug carrier. The use of saccharides as a core, arm, or conjugated agent via increasing the biocompatibility of the system, as well as, in some cases via inducing the targeted drug delivery to systems having them can resolve these problems. Various types of saccharides have been used for engineering the dendrimers with saccharides. The current review highlights the advances in the use of engineered dendrimers as biocompatible macromolecules having saccharides moieties in their chemical structures as a drug delivery system with an insightful and detailed discussion under four classifications. |