Non-covalent functionalization of single-walled carbon nanotubes with modified polyethyleneimines for efficient gene delivery

International Journal of Pharmaceutics

Volumn 454, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 204-215

  Behnam, Behzad ^a   Shier, Wayne T ^b   Nia, Azadeh Hashem ^a,c   Abnous, Khalil ^a   Ramezani, Mohammad ^d  

^a MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

^d MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Gene delivery; In vivo; Non viral vector; Polyethyleneimine; Single walled carbon nanotubes

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOLIPID; PLASMID DNA; POLYETHYLENEIMINE DERIVATIVE; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVALENT BOND; FEMALE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIPID ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84884129661     PISSN: 03785173     EISSN: 18733476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2013.06.057     Document Type: Article

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