DNA and carbon nanotubes as medicine

Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 633-649

  Cheung, William ^a   Pontoriero, Francesco ^a   Taratula, Oleh ^a   Chen, Alex M ^a   He, Huixin ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotubes; DNA; Gene therapy; Multifunctional; Multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs); Near infrared fluorescence (NIR); Nonviral delivery; Raman; Single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs); Small interference RNA (siRNA)

Indexed keywords

NEAR INFRARED FLUORESCENCE (NIR); NEAR-INFRARED FLUORESCENCE; NONVIRAL; RAMAN; SMALL INTERFERENCE RNA;

CELL MEMBRANES; CYTOLOGY; DNA; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; FLUORESCENCE; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INFRARED DEVICES; MEDICAL NANOTECHNOLOGY; MEDICINE; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RNA; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SURFACE PROPERTIES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; CARBON NANOTUBE; CYCLIN A2; DNA; FOMIVIRSEN; LIPOSOME; MESSENGER RNA; MULTI WALLED NANOTUBE; PLASMID DNA; QUANTUM DOT; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE;

CANCER INHIBITION; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED DRUG RELEASE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS RETINITIS; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTROPORATION; ENDOCYTOSIS; GENE THERAPY; GOOD MANUFACTURING PRACTICE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INTERNALIZATION; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; LEWIS CARCINOMA; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; NANOFABRICATION; NANOMEDICINE; NANOTOXICOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TUMOR REGRESSION;

ANIMALS; DNA; DRUG CARRIERS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; DRUG DESIGN; GENE THERAPY; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOMEDICINE; NANOTUBES, CARBON; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 77953544036     PISSN: 0169409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.addr.2010.03.007     Document Type: Review

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