Novel nanosomes for gene delivery to plasmodium falciparum-infected red blood cells

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Gopalakrishnan, Anusha M ^a   Kundu, Anup K ^b   Mandal, Tarun K ^b   Kumar, Nirbhay ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LIPID; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; ERYTHROCYTE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PLASMID; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

DNA, CIRCULAR; ERYTHROCYTES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LIPIDS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMIDS; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84875796402     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01534     Document Type: Article

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