Exploring the correlation between lipid packaging in lipoplexes and their transfection efficacy

Pharmaceutics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 848-864

  Moghaddam, Behfar ^a   McNeil, Sarah E ^a   Zheng, Qinguo ^a   Mohammed, Afzal R ^a   Perrie, Yvonne ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cationic liposomes; Electrolytes; Gene delivery; Langmuir studies; Lipid packaging; Transfection

Indexed keywords

1,2 DIOLEOYL 3 TRIMETHYLAMMONIOPROPANE; 1,2 DIOLEOYL SN GLYCERO 3 PHOSPHOETHANOLAMINE; 1,2 DISTEAROYL SN GLYCERO 3 PHOSPHOETHANOLAMINE; 1,2 STEAROYL 3 TRIMETHYLAMMONIUM PROPANE; LIPOPLEX; PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN COS7; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYDRATION; IN VITRO GENE TRANSFER; LANGMUIR BLODGETT FILM; LIPID BILAYER; LIPOSOMAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; ZETA POTENTIAL;

EID: 84255173297     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics3040848     Document Type: Article

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