Intracellular trafficking and decondensation kinetics of chitosan-pDNA polyplexes

Molecular Therapy

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1787-1795

  Thibault, Marc ^a   Nimesh, Surendra ^a   Lavertu, Marc ^a   Buschmann, Michael D ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITOSAN; PLASMID DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEACETYLATION; DECONDENSATION; DISSOCIATION; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGENICITY; INTERNALIZATION; LYSOSOME; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; TRANSGENE;

EID: 77957569447     PISSN: 15250016     EISSN: 15250024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/mt.2010.143     Document Type: Article

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