Ultrapure chitosan oligomers as carriers for corneal gene transfer

Biomaterials

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1814-1820

  Klausner, Eytan A ^a   Zhang, Zhong ^a   Chapman, Robert L ^a   Multack, Richard F ^b,c   Volin, Michael V ^b  

^a MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Lutheran General Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITOSAN OLIGOMER; CORNEAL FIBROBLASTS; GENE DELIVERY; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; IN-VITRO; KERATOCYTES; LUCIFERASE GENES; NONVIRAL GENE THERAPY; OCULAR DISEASE; POLYETHYLENIMINES; POSITIVE CHARGES; SYSTEMATIC DESIGNS; TRANSGENE; ZETA POTENTIAL MEASUREMENTS;

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; CELL CULTURE; CHITIN; CHITOSAN; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; HYDROGELS; MULTILAYERS; NANOPARTICLES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; OLIGOMERS; ZETA POTENTIAL;

GENE THERAPY;

CHITOSAN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE; NANOPARTICLE; PLASMID DNA; POLYETHYLENEIMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN COS7; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA DISEASE; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; NONVIRAL GENE THERAPY; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; ZETA POTENTIAL;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CHITOSAN; CORNEA; COS CELLS; DNA; DRUG CARRIERS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUCIFERASES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; RATS; TRANSFECTION;

RATTUS;

EID: 73249137078     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2009.10.031     Document Type: Article

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