Polymer gene delivery: Overcoming the obstacles

Drug Discovery Today

Volumn 18, Issue 21-22, 2013, Pages 1090-1098

  Aied, Ahmed ^a   Greiser, Udo ^a   Pandit, Abhay ^a   Wang, Wenxin ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM CHLORIDE; CHITOSAN; CHLOROQUINE; DENDRIMER; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; LIPOFECTAMINE; MACROGOL; METHYLAMINE; MONENSIN; N (2 HYDROXYPROPYL)METHACRYLAMIDE; POLOXAMER; POLY(BETA AMINOESTER); POLY(ETHYLENE IMINE); POLY[2 (DIMETHYLAMINO)ETHYL METHACRYLATE]; POLYAMIDOAMINE; POLYLYSINE; POLYMER; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SPERMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BINDING AFFINITY; CELL CULTURE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DNA BINDING; DNA PACKAGING; DNA STRUCTURE; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENZYMATIC DEGRADATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; IN VITRO GENE TRANSFER; IN VIVO GENE TRANSFER; INTERNALIZATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PINOCYTOSIS; REVIEW; STATIC ELECTRICITY; TRANSGENE;

GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC THERAPY; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; POLYMERS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84886949886     PISSN: 13596446     EISSN: 18785832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drudis.2013.06.014     Document Type: Review

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