A versatile reducible polycation-based system for efficient delivery of a broad range of nucleic acids

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1-16

  Read, Martin L ^a   Singh, Surjeet ^a   Ahmed, Zubair ^a   Stevenson, Mark ^b   Briggs, Simon S ^b   Oupicky, David ^c   Barrett, Lee B ^d   Spice, Rachel ^a   Kendall, Mark ^b   Berry, Martin ^a   Preece, Jon A ^a   Logan, Ann ^a   Seymour, Leonard W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HISTIDINE; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEIC ACID; POLYCATION; POLYETHYLENEIMINE; POLYLYSINE; PROTEIN P75; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; GENE TRANSFER; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NONHUMAN; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; NONVIRAL GENE THERAPY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL GANGLION;

EID: 27244449312     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gni085     Document Type: Article

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