Key issues in non-viral gene delivery

Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 3-19

  Pouton, Colin W ^a   Seymour, Leonard W ^b  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biopharmaceutics; DNA condensation; DNA delivery; Gene therapy; Virus like particles

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; CONDENSATION; DNA; GENES; VIRUSES;

BIOPHARMACEUTICS; GENE THERAPY;

CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY;

DNA; LIPOSOME; POLYNUCLEOTIDE;

CELL INTERACTION; CELL NUCLEUS; COLLOID; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; CYTOSKELETON; ENDOSOME; EXTRAVASATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUSTAINED RELEASE FORMULATION; VIRUS PARTICLE;

EID: 0032487387     PISSN: 0169409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-409X(98)00048-9     Document Type: Review

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