Calcium condensed cell penetrating peptide complexes offer highly efficient, low toxicity gene silencing

International Journal of Pharmaceutics

Volumn 427, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 134-142

  Baoum, Abdulgader ^a   Ovcharenko, Dmitriy ^b   Berkland, Cory ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b Altogen Labs   (United States)

Author keywords

A549 luc C8 cells; Biodistribution; dTAT; RNAi; siRNA; TAT; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ARGINYLLYSYLLYSYLARGINYLARGINYLGLUTAMINYLARGINYLARGINYLARGININE; ARGINYLLYSYLLYSYLARGINYLARGINYLGLUTAMINYLARGINYLARGINYLARGINYLHISTIDYLARGINYLARGINYLLYSYLLYSYLARGININE; CALCIUM; CELL PENETRATING PEPTIDE; LIPID; NANOPARTICLE; PLASMID DNA; POLYMER; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CALCIUM; CELL LINE; CELL-PENETRATING PEPTIDES; DRUG CARRIERS; GENE SILENCING; GENE THERAPY; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; NANOPARTICLES; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84858746533     PISSN: 03785173     EISSN: 18733476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2011.08.012     Document Type: Article

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