DOTAP (and other cationic lipids): Chemistry, biophysics, and transfection

Critical Reviews in Therapeutic Drug Carrier Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 257-317

  Simberg, Dmitri ^a   Weisman, Sarah ^b   Talmon, Yeshayahu ^b   Barenholz, Yechezkel ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,2 DIOLEOYL 3 TRIMETHYLAMMONIOPROPANE; 1,2 DIOLEOYLOXY 3 (TRIMETHYLAMMONIUM)PROPANE; 1,2-DIOLEOYLOXY-3-(TRIMETHYLAMMONIUM)PROPANE; CATION; LIPID; LIPOSOME; MONOUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE;

BIOPHYSICS; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG STABILITY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICELLE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CATIONS; DRUG STABILITY; FATTY ACIDS, MONOUNSATURATED; HUMANS; LIPIDS; LIPOSOMES; MICELLES; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 13744249482     PISSN: 07434863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/CritRevTherDrugCarrierSyst.v21.i4.10     Document Type: Review

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