Novel dextran - Spermine conjugates as transfecting agents: Comparing water-soluble and micellar polymers

Gene Therapy

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 494-503

  Eliyahu, H ^a,b   Makovitzki, A ^b   Azzam, T ^b   Zlotkin, A ^a   Joseph, A ^a   Gazit, D ^a   Barenholz, Y ^a   Domb, A J ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Gene delivery; Intracellular trafficking; Oleyl; Serum

Indexed keywords

1,2 DIOLEOYL 3 TRIMETHYLAMMONIOPROPANE; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; LUCIFERASE; N OLEYLDEXTRAN SPERMINE; NAKED DNA; POLYMER; RHODAMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GOLGI COMPLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; MICELLE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSGENE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; CATIONS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CULTURE MEDIA; CULTURE MEDIA, SERUM-FREE; CYTOPLASM; DEXTRANS; FATTY ACIDS, MONOUNSATURATED; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; GOLGI APPARATUS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; LUCIFERASES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICELLES; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NIH 3T3 CELLS; PLASMIDS; POLYETHYLENEIMINE; POLYMERS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SPERMINE; TRANSFECTION; TRANSGENES; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO;

EID: 15944380389     PISSN: 09697128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.gt.3302395     Document Type: Article

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