Polyethyleneimine-lipid conjugate-based pH-sensitive micellar carrier for gene delivery

Biomaterials

Volumn 33, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 3942-3951

  Sawant, Rupa R ^a   Sriraman, Shravan Kumar ^a   Navarro, Gemma ^a   Biswas, Swati ^a   Dalvi, Riddhi A ^a   Torchilin, Vladimir P ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Micelles; PH sensitive; Polyethyleneimine; Transfection

Indexed keywords

CANCER; CRITICAL MICELLE CONCENTRATION (CMC); GENE DELIVERY; HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MELANOMA CELLS; NEUTRAL SURFACES; PH-SENSITIVE; POLYETHYLENEIMINE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION LEVELS; SALT-INDUCED AGGREGATION; TRANSFECTION; TRANSFECTION ACTIVITY;

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CRITICAL MICELLE CONCENTRATION; MICELLES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS;

GENE TRANSFER;

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA; HYDRAZONE DERIVATIVE; LIPID; MACROGOL; POLYETHYLENEIMINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL MICELLE CONCENTRATION; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICELLE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PH; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SURFACE CHARGE; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LIPIDS; MELANOMA, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MICELLES; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINES; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYETHYLENEIMINE; STATIC ELECTRICITY; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84858285033     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: 18785905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2011.11.088     Document Type: Article

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