Overcoming nonviral gene delivery barriers: Perspective and future

Molecular Pharmaceutics

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 4082-4098

  Jones, Charles H ^a   Chen, Chih Kuang ^a   Ravikrishnan, Anitha ^a   Rane, Snehal ^a   Pfeifer, Blaine A ^a  

^a the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

gene delivery; gene therapy; lipoplexes; nonviral vectors; polyplexes

Indexed keywords

AMINE; CATIONIC LIPID; CATIONIC POLYMER; CHOLESTEROL; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; GENE THERAPY AGENT; HYDROCARBON; LIPID; LIPOPLEX; NITROGEN; NUCLEIC ACID; PLASMID DNA; POLYLACTIDE; POLYMER; PROTEIN KINASE C; QUATERNARY AMINE; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 3; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 7; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 8; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BILAYER MEMBRANE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL FATE; CELL VACUOLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COLLOID; COMPLEX FORMATION; CYTOPLASM; CYTOTOXICITY; ENDOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENE SILENCING; HYDRATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; HYDROXYLATION; INFLAMMATION; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; MICELLIZATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; NUCLEIC ACID TRANSPORT; PH; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STATIC ELECTRICITY; TEMPERATURE;

GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC THERAPY; GENETIC VECTORS; LIPIDS; POLYMERS;

EID: 84887324806     PISSN: 15438384     EISSN: 15438392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/mp400467x     Document Type: Review

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