β-Galactosylated alkyl-oligoamine derivatives of polyethylenimine enhanced pDNA delivery into hepatic cells with reduced toxicity

Current Nanoscience

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 548-555

  Dehshahri, Ali ^a,b,c   Oskuee, Reza Kazemi ^d   Shier, Wayne Thomas ^e   Ramezani, Mohammad ^c  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytotoxicity; Galactose; Gene delivery; Nanoparticle; Polyethylenimine; Targeting

Indexed keywords

ALKYL CHAIN LENGTHS; AMIDE LINKAGES; ASIALOGLYCOPROTEIN RECEPTORS; CARCINOMA CELLS; DIETHYLENTRIAMINE; GALACTOSE; GENE CARRIER; GENE DELIVERY; HEPATIC CELLS; HUMAN LIVER; PLASMID DNA; POLYETHYLENIMINES; POLYPLEXES; PRIMARY AMINES; REDUCED TOXICITY; REDUCTIVE AMINATION; REPORTER GENE; SPERMIDINE; TARGETING; TRANSFECTION EFFICIENCY; WEIGHT RATIOS;

AMIDES; BIOMOLECULES; CELLS; CYTOTOXICITY; EFFICIENCY; GENE TRANSFER; GENES; NANOPARTICLES; SUGARS;

CYTOLOGY;

ALKYL GROUP; AMIDE; AMINE; ASIALOGLYCOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; GALACTOSE; LACTOSE; LUCIFERASE; PLASMID DNA; POLYETHYLENEIMINE; SPERMIDINE;

ALKYLATION; AMINATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN HEPG2; CELL TYPE; CONJUGATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVALENT BOND; CYTOTOXICITY; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVER CARCINOMA; LIVER CELL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEUROBLASTOMA CELL; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; ZETA POTENTIAL;

EID: 84863961600     PISSN: 15734137     EISSN: 18756786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157341312801784339     Document Type: Article

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