Understanding nonviral nucleic acid delivery with quantum dot-FRET nanosensors

Nanomedicine

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 565-577

  Grigsby, Christopher L ^a   Ho, Yi Ping ^a   Leong, Kam W ^a,b  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

biophotonics; Frster resonance energy transfer; gene delivery; intracellular trafficking; nanomedicine; polyplex; quantum dots; siRNA delivery

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; CHITOSAN; DOXORUBICIN; MACROGOL; NUCLEIC ACID; OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; QUANTUM DOT; RHODAMINE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ABSORPTION; CELL TYPE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DNA CONFORMATION; ENERGY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NANOMEDICINE; NANOSENSOR; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUBSTITUTION REACTION;

FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENETIC VECTORS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84859462910     PISSN: 17435889     EISSN: 17486963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/nnm.12.28     Document Type: Review

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