Nanostructure of polyplexes formed between cationic diblock copolymer and antisense oligodeoxynucleotide and its influence on cell transfection efficiency

Biomacromolecules

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3493-3502

  Zhao, XiuBo ^a   Pan, Fang ^a   Zhang, ZhuoQi ^a   Grant, Colin ^a   Ma, YingHua ^b   Armes, Steven P ^b   Tang, YiQing ^c   Lewis, Andrew L ^c   Waigh, Thomas ^a   Lu, Jian R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c BIOCOMPATIBLES UK LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CATIONIC POLYMERIZATION; DNA; NANOSTRUCTURES; NEUTRON SCATTERING;

AMINE GROUPS; CELL TRANSFECTION EFFICIENCY; OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE (ODN); TRANSFECTION STUDIES;

MACROMOLECULES;

ANTISENSE OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; COPOLYMER; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE;

ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GROWTH INHIBITION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIGHT SCATTERING; NEUTRON SCATTERING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

APOPTOSIS; CATIONS; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NANOSTRUCTURES; NEUTRONS; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; POLYMERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 36649021320     PISSN: 15257797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bm7006482     Document Type: Article

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