Bioresponsive small molecule polyamines as noncytotoxic alternative to polyethylenimine

Molecular Pharmaceutics

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2040-2055

  Drake, Christopher R ^a,b   Aissaoui, Abderrahim ^a   Argyros, Orestis ^a   Serginson, James M ^a   Monnery, Bryn D ^a   Thanou, Maya ^a,c   Steinke, Joachim H G ^a   Miller, Andrew D ^a,d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d ImuThes Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; DISULFIDE; LIPOSOME; NUCLEIC ACID; PLASMID DNA; POLYAMINE DERIVATIVE; POLYETHYLENEIMINE; SPERMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; FEMALE; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIPOSOMAL DELIVERY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; NONVIRAL GENE THERAPY; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; MICE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYAMINES; POLYETHYLENEIMINE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 78649944492     PISSN: 15438384     EISSN: 15438392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/mp9002249     Document Type: Article

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