Carbon nanohorns functionalized with polyamidoamine dendrimers as efficient biocarrier materials for gene therapy

Carbon

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2832-2844

  Guerra, Javier ^a,b   Herrero, M Antonia ^a   Carrión, Blanca ^b   Pérez Martínez, Francisco C ^b   Lucío, Maribel ^a   Rubio, Noelia ^a   Meneghetti, Moreno ^c   Prato, Maurizio ^d   Ceña, Valentín ^b,e   Vázquez, Ester ^a  

^a Fac de Quimicas Univ de C   (Spain)

^b Campus Universitario   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^e Campus Universitario   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCARRIER; BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; BIOLOGICAL DATA; CARBON NANOHORN; FUNCTIONALIZED; GENE DELIVERY; GENETIC MATERIALS; HIGH SURFACE AREA; MOLECULAR ENTITIES; NONVIRAL; POLYAMIDOAMINE DENDRIMERS; PROSTATE CANCERS; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION;

GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER; HYBRID MATERIALS; HYBRID SYSTEMS; NANOHORNS;

DENDRIMERS;

EID: 84859587060     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2012.02.050     Document Type: Article

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