Functionalization of single-walled carbon nanotubes enables efficient intracellular delivery of siRNA targeting MDM2 to inhibit breast cancer cells growth

Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 334-338

  Chen, Hailong ^a   Ma, Xingyuan ^a   Li, Zhi ^b   Shi, Qiaoyun ^a   Zheng, Wenyun ^a   Liu, Yang ^a   Wang, Ping ^a  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Breast cancer cells; Delivery of siRNA; Functionalized SWNTs; MDM2

Indexed keywords

AMINE; PROTEIN MDM2; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER CELL; CANCER GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; DISULFIDE BOND; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINES; APOPTOSIS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL PROLIFERATION; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC THERAPY; HUMANS; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINES; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MDM2; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84864024570     PISSN: 07533322     EISSN: 19506007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2011.12.005     Document Type: Article

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