Water-soluble fullerene (C60) derivatives as nonviral gene-delivery vectors

Molecular Pharmaceutics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 567-578

  Sitharaman, Balaji ^a,b,c,f   Zakharian, Tatiana Y ^a   Saraf, Anita ^b   Ashcroft, Preeti Misra Jared ^a   Pan, Su ^e   Pham, Quynh P ^b   Mikos, Antonios G ^b,c   Wilson, Lon J ^a,c   Engler, David A ^d,e  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e TEXAS HEART INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C60; Cytotoxicity; Fullerenes; Gene transfection; Nonviral vector

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; FULLERENE DERIVATIVE; GADOLINIUM; NAKED DNA; PLASMID DNA; WATER;

ANIMAL CELL; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOTOXICITY; DERIVATIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; SOLUBILITY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA; FULLERENES; GENETIC VECTORS; MICE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SOLUBILITY; TRANSGENES; VIRUSES; WATER;

EID: 51049106634     PISSN: 15438384     EISSN: 15438392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/mp700106w     Document Type: Conference Paper

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