Multifunctional nanorods for gene delivery

Nature Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 668-671

  Salem, Aliasger K ^a,b   Searson, Peter C ^b   Leong, Kam W ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION EFFECTS; DNA; ELECTRODEPOSITION; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; GENE TRANSFER; GENES; IMMUNIZATION; ION BOMBARDMENT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TOXICITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

GENE DELIVERY; LIPOSOMES; MULTIFUNCTIONAL NANORODS; PROPIONIC ACID; SOMATIC CELLS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

DRUG CARRIER; TRANSFERRIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG EFFECT; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; KIDNEY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PLASMID; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SYNTHESIS; VALIDATION STUDY;

CELLS, CULTURED; DRUG CARRIERS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GENE THERAPY; HUMANS; KIDNEY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PLASMIDS; TRANSFECTION; TRANSFERRIN;

EID: 0142090839     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat974     Document Type: Letter

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