Structurally flexible triethanolamine core pamam dendrimers are effective nanovectors for DNA transfection in vitro and in vivo to the mouse thymus

Bioconjugate Chemistry

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2461-2473

  Liu, Xiaoxuan ^a,b   Wu, Jiangyu ^a,b   Yammine, Miriam ^c   Zhou, Jiehua ^b   Posocco, Paola ^f   Viel, Stephane ^d   Liu, Cheng ^b   Ziarelli, Fabio ^e   Fermeglia, Maurizio ^f   Pricl, Sabrina ^f   Victorero, Genevieve ^c   Nguyen, Catherine ^c   Erbacher, Patrick ^g   Behr, Jean Paul ^h   Peng, Ling ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Aix Marseille university   (France)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^e Aix Marseille University   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^g Polyplus transfection SA   (France)

^h UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; DENDRIMERS; ETHANOLAMINES; FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER; MAMMALS;

BRANCHING UNITS; CONTROLLED ARCHITECTURE; DNA TRANSFECTION; GENE DELIVERY; IN-VITRO; NANOVECTORS; PAMAM DENDRIMER; TRIETHANOLAMINES; VITRO AND IN VIVO; VOID SPACE;

DNA;

DENDRIMER; DNA; POLYAMIDOAMINE; TRIETHANOLAMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSFECTION; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; GENE TARGETING; GENE THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PINOCYTOSIS; THYMUS;

EID: 84555186724     PISSN: 10431802     EISSN: 15204812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bc200275g     Document Type: Article

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