Copolymers of ethylene imine and N-(2-hydroxyethyl)-ethylene imine as tools to study effects of polymer structure on physicochemical and biological properties of DNA complexes

Bioconjugate Chemistry

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1124-1133

  Fischer, Dagmar ^a   Von Harpe, Anke ^a,b   Kunath, Klaus ^a   Petersen, Holger ^a   Li, Youxin ^c   Kissel, Thomas ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b PROCTER AND GAMBLE COMPANY   (United States)

^c Schwarz Pharma AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINES; BLOOD; CELL CULTURE; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; CYTOTOXICITY; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROPHORESIS; ETHYLENE; FIBROBLASTS; GENE TRANSFER; GENES; ION CHROMATOGRAPHY; ION EXCHANGE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SOLUTIONS; TITRATION; VOLTAMMETRY;

AZIRIDINES; BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; BRANCHED POLYMER; DEGREE OF BRANCHING; DNA COMPLEX; HAEMOLYSIS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POLYMER STRUCTURE; PRIMARY AND SECONDARY AMINE; TRANSFECTION EFFICIENCY;

DNA;

DNA; DRUG DERIVATIVE; HYDROXYETHYLATED POLYETHYLENEIMINE; POLYAMINE; POLYCATIONS; POLYETHYLENEIMINE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; ERYTHROCYTE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; PLASMID; RAT; STANDARD; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SYNTHESIS;

3T3 CELLS; ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA; ERYTHROCYTES; MICE; PLASMIDS; POLYAMINES; POLYETHYLENEIMINE; RATS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0036736960     PISSN: 10431802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bc025550w     Document Type: Article

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