Delivery of telomerase reverse transcriptase small interfering RNA in complex with positively charged single-walled carbon nanotubes suppresses tumor growth

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 12, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 4933-4939

  Zhang, Zhuohan ^a   Yang, Xiaoying ^a   Zhang, Yuan ^a   Zeng, Bin ^a   Wang, Shujing ^a   Zhu, Tianhui ^a   Roden, Richard B S ^b   Chen, Yongsheng ^a   Yang, Rongcun ^a,b  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; NANOTUBE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENE THERAPY; HELA CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LEWIS CARCINOMA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR GROWTH; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; NANOTUBES, CARBON; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TELOMERASE; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 33748340023     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-05-2831     Document Type: Article

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