Parallel high-throughput screening of polymer vectors for nonviral gene delivery: Evaluation of structure-property relationships of transfection

ACS Combinatorial Science

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 475-482

  Rinkenauer, Alexandra C ^a   Vollrath, Antje ^a   Schallon, Anja ^a   Tauhardt, Lutz ^a   Kempe, Kristian ^a   Schubert, Stephanie ^a   Fischer, Dagmar ^a   Schubert, Ulrich S ^a,b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b DUTCH POLYMER INSTITUTE DPI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

combinatorial workflow; heparin; high throughput screening; nonviral gene delivery; poly(ethylene imine); polyplex stability; transfection

Indexed keywords

CATION; IMINE; POLY(ETHYLENE IMINE); POLYETHYLENE DERIVATIVE;

CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE TRANSFER; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HEK293 CELL LINE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PHARMACOLOGY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SYNTHESIS;

CATIONS; CELL SURVIVAL; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; HEK293 CELLS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HUMANS; IMINES; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYETHYLENES; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84883810449     PISSN: 21568952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/co400025u     Document Type: Article

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